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

• Autore: Barker Elton T. E (Elton Thomas Edward), <1971->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 433 p.)
• Disciplina: 880.09353
• Soggetto topico: Debates and debating in literature; Epic poetry, Greek - History and criticism; Greek drama (Tragedy) - Themes, motives; Historiography - Greece; Literature and society - Greece - History - To 1500
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [374]-412) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Prologue; ACT I: EPIC; ACT II: HISTORIOGRAPHY; ACT III: TRAGEDY; Epilogue; Bibliography; General index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Entering the agon
• ISBN: 0-19-960928-4; 1-282-07626-4; 9786612076268; 0-19-156224-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210912203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno