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Entering the Agon
Dissent and Authority in Homer, Historiography, and Tragedy
Elton T. E. Barker
448 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-954271-0
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Hardback
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22 January 2009
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- Cross-generic approach allows readers to trace changing manifestations of debate and dissent
- Reinvigorates well-known works, by writers as diverse as Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles and Euripides, in the light of new approaches
- Inspires consideration of the interpenetration of literature and culture
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.Readership: Scholars and students of classics, literature, ancient history, historiography, sociology, political theory, rhetoric and communication studies.
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Elton T. E. Barker, Lecturer in Classics, The Open University
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"His ambitious book combines sweeping survey and close reading to show what a rich field this is" - John Taylor, The Anglo-Hellenic Review
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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 in Sophocles' Ajax
6: Beyond the agon in Euripides' Hecuba
Epilogue
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