The Agon in Classical Literature
Studies in Honour of Professor Chris Carey
9781905670994
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The Agon in Classical Literature
Studies in Honour of Professor Chris Carey
A collection of essays on the topical concept of agon in Greek literature.
The papers collected in this volume are offered by colleagues and former students in honor of Chris Carey, emeritus professor of Greek at University College London. The multifaceted topic of the agon, or contest of word, and its varying representations in Greek literature aptly corresponds to the outstanding variety of Carey’s research interests, which include the works of Homer, lyric poetry, drama, law, rhetoric, and historiography. This volume sets out to reflect on facets of the agon across these literary genres and the pivotal role of competition in ancient Greek thought. It aims to explore the wide range of agonal dynamics, and their generic and cultural value, as well as stimulating fresh discussions under a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological approaches.
The papers collected in this volume are offered by colleagues and former students in honor of Chris Carey, emeritus professor of Greek at University College London. The multifaceted topic of the agon, or contest of word, and its varying representations in Greek literature aptly corresponds to the outstanding variety of Carey’s research interests, which include the works of Homer, lyric poetry, drama, law, rhetoric, and historiography. This volume sets out to reflect on facets of the agon across these literary genres and the pivotal role of competition in ancient Greek thought. It aims to explore the wide range of agonal dynamics, and their generic and cultural value, as well as stimulating fresh discussions under a broad spectrum of theoretical and methodological approaches.
280 pages | 6.69 x 9.61 | © 2022
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplements
Literature and Literary Criticism: Classical Languages
Table of Contents
Preface
Athanasios Efstathiou
Introduction
Ioanna Karamanou: The agon in its literary and ideological contexts
I. The agonistic poetics of epos and early lyric, and their Hellenistic reception
Agonistic epic interactions: the appalling punishment of Odysseus’ servants in Odyssey 22
Ioannis Lambrou:
The agon as literary motif in representations of the lyric poets
Theodora A. Hadjimichael
The poets’ voice against slander: Pindar (Pythian 2.53-6, 72-88), Callimachus’ Apollo Lyc(e)ius and other poetic ‘animals’
Flora P. Manakidou
The golden age and traces of iambic mockery in bucolic agon
Ana Petkovic
II. Debates on stage
Agon at play: rhetorical debate in Greek tragedy
Akrivi Taousiani
The dynamics of agon in Sophocles’ Electra
Styliani Papastamati
Euripides’ agonistic rhetoric: the formal debates in the Alexandros
Ioanna Karamanou
A later treatment of the agon-scene in Euripides’ Phoenissae
Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou
The agon in a modern Greek production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Stavroula Kiritsi
The agon in middle comedy
Athina Papachrysostomou
III. The notion of agon in Greek thought and philosophical discourse
Agön of excellence in ancient Greek thought and literature
Ioannis N. Perysinakis
Anger in Socrates’ philosophy
Manuela Irarrazabal
Socrates’ combat against Proteus in Plato’s dialogues
Liana Lomiento
Agon: an Aristotelian way of life
Maria Liatsi
IV: Agonistic Rhetoric
We are the champions: the role of agonistic metaphors in the political discourse of classical Greece
Jakub Filonik
Irony as a rhetorical tactic in Lysias’ dicastic agones
Eleni Volonaki
Brenda Griffith-Williams, ? ??? ???? ?? µ????? a?t???, ???? pe?? t?? µe??st??: competition for inheritance in ancient Greece
Iphigeneia Giannadaki, Meden aprobouleuton? Dem. 22 and the management of the ekklesia’s business
The agon in Isaeus. A laudatio for Chris Carey
Mike Edwards
Christopher Carey – curriculum vitae
General Index
Athanasios Efstathiou
Introduction
Ioanna Karamanou: The agon in its literary and ideological contexts
I. The agonistic poetics of epos and early lyric, and their Hellenistic reception
Agonistic epic interactions: the appalling punishment of Odysseus’ servants in Odyssey 22
Ioannis Lambrou:
The agon as literary motif in representations of the lyric poets
Theodora A. Hadjimichael
The poets’ voice against slander: Pindar (Pythian 2.53-6, 72-88), Callimachus’ Apollo Lyc(e)ius and other poetic ‘animals’
Flora P. Manakidou
The golden age and traces of iambic mockery in bucolic agon
Ana Petkovic
II. Debates on stage
Agon at play: rhetorical debate in Greek tragedy
Akrivi Taousiani
The dynamics of agon in Sophocles’ Electra
Styliani Papastamati
Euripides’ agonistic rhetoric: the formal debates in the Alexandros
Ioanna Karamanou
A later treatment of the agon-scene in Euripides’ Phoenissae
Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou
The agon in a modern Greek production of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata
Stavroula Kiritsi
The agon in middle comedy
Athina Papachrysostomou
III. The notion of agon in Greek thought and philosophical discourse
Agön of excellence in ancient Greek thought and literature
Ioannis N. Perysinakis
Anger in Socrates’ philosophy
Manuela Irarrazabal
Socrates’ combat against Proteus in Plato’s dialogues
Liana Lomiento
Agon: an Aristotelian way of life
Maria Liatsi
IV: Agonistic Rhetoric
We are the champions: the role of agonistic metaphors in the political discourse of classical Greece
Jakub Filonik
Irony as a rhetorical tactic in Lysias’ dicastic agones
Eleni Volonaki
Brenda Griffith-Williams, ? ??? ???? ?? µ????? a?t???, ???? pe?? t?? µe??st??: competition for inheritance in ancient Greece
Iphigeneia Giannadaki, Meden aprobouleuton? Dem. 22 and the management of the ekklesia’s business
The agon in Isaeus. A laudatio for Chris Carey
Mike Edwards
Christopher Carey – curriculum vitae
General Index