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Entering the agon: dissent and authority in homer, historiography, and tragedy
Barker, Elton T.
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A study of the changing representations of debate, or agon, across and withinclassical Greek epic, historiography, and tragedy. Elton T. E. Barker shows the importance of debate to these key genres and also the role of literature inthe construction of a citizen body through the exploration, reproduction and management of dissent from authority. INDICE: Prologue; Act I. Epic: Founding Dissent; 1: Challenging authority in the assemblies of the Iliad; 2: Sidelining debate in the Odyssey; Act II. Historiography: Writing in Dissent; 3: Herodotus' Odyssean enquiry; 4: Thucydides writes debate; Act III. Tragedy; Institutional Dissent; 5: Speaking back inSophocles' Ajax; 6: Beyond the agon in Euripides' Hecuba; Epilogue
- ISBN: 978-0-19-960928-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés