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agon::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | celebration, festivity |
| Has types | isthmian games, nemean games, olympian games, olympic games, pythian games |
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The central action of the play is the agon between Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.
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Agon, written from 1954 to 1957, is a ballet choreographed for twelve dancers.
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A similarly one-sided agon is found in the next surviving play, Lysistrata.
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In this regard he often mentions the common Greek theme of agon or contest.
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The agon in Lysistrata is thus a fine example of rhetoric even though it is unusually one-sided.
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Their agon continues in a series of rapid stichomythic exchanges.
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Dionysus is asked by Pluto to mediate the contest or agon.
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Conflict was first described in ancient Greek literature as the agon, or central contest in tragedy.
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The informality of the agon draws attention to the absurdity of a classical woman engaging in public debate.
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- A festivity in ancient Greece at which competitors contended for prizes
- AGON is a series of episodic adventure games for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows by Private Moon Studios. The game uses QuickTime VR-like panoramas in a first person camera mode. The game takes place starting in 1903.
- Agon (Classical Greek u1F00u03B3u03CEu03BD) is an ancient Greek term for a struggle or contest. This could be a contest in athletics, in chariot or horse racing, or in music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece.
- Agu00F3n is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a human population of one hundred and ninety three.
- Agon (1957) is a ballet for twelve dancers, with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by George Balanchine. ...
- Agon is a fictional character who has appeared in various comic book series published by Marvel Comics. The character is a member of the Inhumans, a race of beings who exist in Marvel's main shared universe, the Marvel Universe. He is best known as the father of Black Bolt. He was married to Rynda.
- Agon is an abstract strategy game with perfect information (i.e. no random or unknown elements). Agon may be the oldest board game played on a 6 by 6 by 6 hexagonally tiled board, first appearing as early as the late Eighteenth Century in France. ...
- Agon is a newspaper published in Albania.
- The Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Jawi: u064Au06A0 u062Fu06A4u0631u062Au0648u0627u0646 u0627u0762u0648u06A0) is the monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957 when the Federation of Malaya (now Malaysia) gained independence from the United Kingdom. Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy with an elected monarch as head of state. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong is one of the few elected monarchs in the world...
