Entering the Agon : Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199542716
ISBN-13
9780199542710
Publisher
Oxford University Press
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Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 22nd, 2009
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
672 grams
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22.60 x 14.50 x 3.00 cms
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Literary studies: classical, early & medievalClassical history / classical civilisation
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A study of the changing representations of debate, or agon, across and within classical Greek epic, historiography, and tragedy. Elton T. E. Barker shows the importance of debate to these key genres and also the role of literature in the construction of a citizen body through the exploration, reproduction and management of dissent from authority.
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 analyses each example of debate in its context according to a set of interrelated questions: who debates, when, why, and with what consequences? Based on the changing representations of debate across and within different genres, it shows the importance of debate to these key canonical genres and, in turn, the role of literature in the construction of a citizen body through the exploration, reproduction and management of dissent from authority.
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