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Agon

Agon (Ancient Greek: Ἀγών) is the Greek deity who personified conflict, 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. Agon is the word-forming element in 'agony', explaining the concept of agon(y) in tragedy by its fundamental characters, the…

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Athletics

Religion

Theater

Dance

Literature

Sociopolitical theory

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Agon

Nodes55
Edges54
Triples116
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.036364
Components1

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related to Further reading · 57
Agon → Agon Culture, Agon Motif, Antike, Authority, Bestimmung, Brill, Clarendon Press, Claudio Colaguori, Competition, Conflict, Determination, Dietrich, Dissent, Domination, Educational Theatre Journal, Elton, Entering, Euripides, Franz Steiner Verlag, German
related to Religion · 15
Agon → According, Fight, Greek, It, More, New Testament, Nike, Olympia, Olympic Games, Paul, Pausanias, Strong's Concordance, Timothy, Zelos, Zeus
related to Sociopolitical theory · 10
Agon → Bonnie Honig, Chantal Mouffe, Claudio Colaguori, Connolly, Hannah Arendt, In, Michel Foucault, The, Theodor Adorno, William
related to Dance · 8
Agon → After, Agon's, Balanchine, George Balanchine, Igor Stravinsky, In, Lincoln Kirstein, Stravinsky
related to Literature · 8
Agon → Games, Harold Bloom, In Man, Joyce's, Play, Roger Caillois, Shakespeare, The Western Canon
related to Athletics · 7
Agon → Dionysius, In, Micythus, Olympia, Olympic Games, Rhegium, This
related to Theater · 7
Agon → Classical, From, In Ancient Greek, Old Comedy, Plato, The, Through
is a · 1
Agon → word-forming element in 'agony
related to Derivatives · 1
Agon → Words

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contest isbn protagonist antagonist greek also athletics work conflict ancient literature games struggle concept tragedy competition statue athletic term ballet

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Agonis aword-forming element in 'agony0.90text
Theodor Adornoinstance ofbut is also implicitly present in the work of scholars0.80text
and Michel Foucaultinstance ofbut is also implicitly present in the work of scholars0.80text
Agonrelated to AthleticsIn0.60section
Agonrelated to AthleticsOlympic Games0.60section
Agonrelated to AthleticsThis0.60section
Agonrelated to AthleticsOlympia0.60section
Agonrelated to AthleticsDionysius0.60section
Agonrelated to AthleticsMicythus0.60section
Agonrelated to AthleticsRhegium0.60section
Agonrelated to DanceIn0.60section
Agonrelated to DanceLincoln Kirstein0.60section

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