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The Gods of Greece (Die Götter Griechenlandes) is a 1788 poem by the German writer Friedrich Schiller. It was first published in Wieland’s Der Teutsche Merkur with a second shorter version (with much of its controversial content removed) published by Schiller himself in 1800.A fragment of this poem was set by Franz Schubert in November 1819 (D677).