The contributions in the volume deal for the first time with Friedrich W. J. Schelling's Munich Academy Lecture Ueber die Gottheiten von Samothrake (1815) in its problem- and contemporary historical context, thus shedding new light on its philosophical development between 1812 and 1817. The study includes Schelling's journal project Allgemeine Zeitschrift von Deutschen fur Deutsche from 1813 as well as the Bericht uber die Aeginetischen Bildwerke by Johann Martin Wagner, which he published in 1817. In this way, Schelling's smaller writings provide a picture of his work in his early Munich period that has received little attention so far.