Every talent must unfold itself in fighting: that is the command of Hellenic popular pedagogy. . . . And just as the youths were educated through contests, their educators were also engaged in contests with each other. The great musical masters, Pindar and Simonides, stood side by side, mistrustful and jealous; in the spirit of contest, the sophist . . . meets another sophist; even the . . . drama was meted out to the people only in the form of a tremendous wrestling among the great musical and dramatic artists. . . .”Even the artist hates the artist.” . . . The Greek knows the artist only as engaged in a personal fight.
— [My emphasis] Friedrich Nietzsche, “Homer’s Contest” FT, (as annotated in The Olympics of the Mind chapter of The Olympics and Philosophy)