I. Nietzsche¿s Philosophic Historiography.- Nietzsche¿s Use of Intellectual History.- History and the Self -Definition of Humanity.- II. Nietzsche on the Greek Decline.- ¿Socrates¿ as a Symptom of the Greek Decline.- III. Nietzsche on the Early Presocratics.- Philosophy in ¿the Tragic Age¿.- Nietzsche on Anaximander.- Nietzsche on Herakleitos.- Nietzsche and Parmenides.- IV. Positivism and Ecstasy.- Rationality without Beauty, Release without Proportion.- Poetry as Dianoia, Imagination as Rationality.- V. Keeping Track of ¿Socrates¿.- The Socrates of the Pythagorizing and Oligarchal Tradition.- Nietzsche¿s Traditionalist Reading of Plato.- VI. What Nietzsche Loved About Socrates.- Nietzsche¿s Dialectic and Anti-Systematics.- Plato¿s Socrates is Not a Twilit Idol.- VII. The Tyranny of ¿Reason¿.-