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Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy, 
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. Dr, Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy has a rating of 4 stars
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Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy, 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. Dr, Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
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  • Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
  • Written by author Elton T. E. Barker
  • Published by Oxford University Press, June 2011
  • 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. Dr
  • 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
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Act I Epic

Introduction Founding dissent 31

1 Challenging authority in the assemblies of the Iliad 40

2 Sidelining debate in the Odyssey 89

Act II Historiography

Introduction Writing in dissent 137

3 Herodotus' Odyssean enquiry 144

4 Thucydides writes debate 203

Act III Tragedy

Introduction Institutional dissent 267

5 Speaking back in Sophocles' Ajax 281

6 Beyond the agon in Euripides' Hecuba 325

Epilogue 366

Bibliography 374

General index 413


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