Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy

by Elton T.E. Barker

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This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek literature - the scene of debate or agon, in which with varying degrees of formality characters square up to each other and engage in a contest of words. Drawing on six case studies of different kinds
of narrative - epic, historiography and tragedy - and authors as diverse as Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles and Euripides, this wide-ranging study...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199542716

ISBN13:9780199542710

Release Date:March 2009

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:480 Pages

Weight:1.35 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

Ancient Ancient & Classical Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Fantasy Epics Greece Greek History History & Criticism Language Arts Linguistics Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Medieval Movements & Periods Poetry Words, Language & Grammar

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