| Summary: | This paper examines Nietzsche attention paid to the issue of “myth” in two works, <em>The Birth of Tragedy</em> and his Second <em>Untimely Meditation</em>. In the latter the interest towards genealogy as the most effective method to counteract the aspirations of a historiography imprisoned by his scientific aspirations, seems to leave in the background the bet on a “rebirth of the German myth” presents in the first book. However, it is possible to recognize a continuity of the importance of “myth” in the idea about a History that supports the fictional, something that has been taken over by contemporary philosophies of History that have assumed Nietzsche’s legacy
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