The characters in Johann Christian Friedrich Hlderlin (1770 ～ 1843), a German poet, in his novel "Xu Perion, or the Hermit of Greece".
Xu Perion In early 1796, Holderlin went to work as a teacher at the Gontald's house, a banker in Frankfurt. During this period, when he completed the novel "Xu Perion, or the Hermit of Greece", there was a love between Holderlin and the heroine Susette Gontald. The Diotima in the novel and poem is the heroine Susette.
Xu Perion, or the Hermit of Greece, is an epistolary novel of Holderlin (Volume 1 1797, Volume 2 1799). Pieces of the first draft were published on Schiller's New Talia in 1794. The novel has a strong lyric color. Hui Perion was a Greek youth who grew up in Greece under the rule of Turkey in the 18th century. Whenever he recalls the glory of ancient Athens, he is sad for the humiliation of the invasion of his motherland. He longed for integration with nature, but felt that it was impossible for people to achieve permanent natural integration with all sources of life. He got to know Diotima, regained confidence, and participated in the 1770 War of Liberation against Turkey. During the war, I saw soldiers robbing, burning and killing. Diotimus died again. He became lonely and sad. In mourning for her, he suddenly heard her voice, which made him regain peace. Diotimus (Susette) embodies Holderlin's ideal of beauty. The second volume of the novel includes the famous Song of Xu Perion's Destiny and the last second letter German nation Criticism of. 
