Figures from this culture name a literary annual “almanac” that published the major output of the “ballad year” of 1797. A figure from this culture is “Near” yet “difficult to grasp” in a hymn titled for an island, written by the author of the elegy “The Archipelago.” A 1788 poem that expresses nostalgia for this culture was censored for being anti-Christian. This culture is referenced in the title of a literary periodical founded by August Wilhelm and Friedrich (*) Schlegel. Friedrich Hölderlin’s adoration of this culture inspired a dichotomy of artistic impulses named for two deities from this culture, which Nietzsche examined in The Birth of Tragedy. For 10 points, the mythology of what classical culture inspired Goethe’s poems “Ganymed” and “Prometheus”? ■END■
ANSWER: Ancient Greece [or Hellas or the Hellenic culture; accept Greek gods or Greek mythology or muses; accept “The Gods of Greece”] (The first line describes Muses' Almanacs. The poem in the second line is Friedrich Hölderlin’s “Patmos.” The censored poem is “The Gods of Greece” by Friedrich Schiller. The periodical is Athenaeum. The dichotomy is the Apollonian and Dionysian.)
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