Entering the agon : dissent and authority in Homer, historiography and tragedy / Elton T.E. Barker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barker, Elton T. E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Debates and debating in literature.

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Themes, motives.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Historiography--Greece.

Historiography.

Literature and society--Greece--History--To 1500.

Literature and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 433 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 inits context according to a set of interrelated questions: who debates, when, why, and with what consequences? Based

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Prologue; ACT I: EPIC; ACT II: HISTORIOGRAPHY; ACT III: TRAGEDY; Epilogue; Bibliography; General index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-412) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-960928-4

1-282-07626-4

9786612076268

0-19-156224-6

OCLC:

320966834