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What is an agon?

What is an agon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
  2. An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
  3. A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
  4. A two-player board game played with a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times. Also known as queen's guard.
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What the dimness suggests here is the fading of one age and the approach of a new one, a cultural agon crystallized in these two men.
Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.
What is most rewarding about the book, I think, is not the overarching framework of agon vs.
For an unfathomable reason, I kept thinking of Balanchine's Agon as the dancers swept through their athletic ceremonial.
The Chorus is important, and peculiar to Old Comedy are the agon and parabasis.
After our escape from agon and his pious crew we returned to our quarters in the palace and had a very good time.

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