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 exampleof 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 ofliterature in the construction of a citizen body through the exploration, reproduction and management of dissent from authority.
Elton T. E. Barker
Entering the Agon [PDF ebook]
Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
Entering the Agon [PDF ebook]
Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
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Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780191562242 ● Publisher OUP Oxford ● Published 2009 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2274249 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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