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Entering the Agon

Name: Entering the Agon
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199609284
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Autor: Barker

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This book investigates one of the most characteristic and prominent features of ancient Greek litera...

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Autor

Barker

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2011

Pagini

448

EAN

9780199609284

ISBN

0199609284

Enbook ID

04478189

Editura

Oxford University Press

Greutate

550

Dimensiuni

138 x 215 x 25

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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 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.