Chronology was not an issue for Friedrich Nietzsche, who linked the prehistoric warrior aristocrats of Mycenae with German militarism.

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In 1844, the German philosopher and poet Friedrich Nietzsche was born.

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His discourse is a combination of vulgar Marxism with what the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche calls "a rebellion in slave morality, " namely, a sort of resentment against those perceived as being powerful.

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Despite that violent past, Barton has carved out a reputation as one of football's more cerebral thinkers, building up a Twitter audience of 1.7 million followers thanks to his musings on philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and lyrics from songs of The Smiths.

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Still, at 25 he held the chair of Greek at Sydney University, and so became the youngest professor in what was then the British empire (and rather cross that Friedrich Nietzsche, whose philosophic works he admired, had become a professor at an even earlier age).

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