Entering the Agon: Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy

by Elton T.E. Barker

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199542716
• ISBN13: 9780199542710
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"