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If one takes “Iphigenia,” one sees that the longing for Greek culture lives on in it. Goethe believed he understood art differently after experiencing it in Italy—and yet, something quite different lives in Goethe's “Iphigenia” than in a Greek work of art. I could say a lot about the way things are artistically designed, but I only want to hint at these things in these lectures.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Third Lecture","site_heading":"Central European Striving Toward Individual Self-Becoming","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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