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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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For an unfathomable reason, I kept thinking of Balanchine's Agon as the dancers swept through their athletic ceremonial.
According to Agon, L'Oreal Luxe and Active Cosmetics achieved very good growth and outperformed their market significantly.
She was entering what is called the agonal phase — taken from the Greek agon, which means struggle — a period that precedes death and can last from a few minutes to hours.
The Chorus is important, and peculiar to Old Comedy are the agon and parabasis.
Furthermore, this agon happens between the poems or plays or novels themselves, and not between the writers.
At the start of the 1980s Smolka founded the Agon Ensemble, which gradually emerged as the most important Czech ensemble for contemporary music.

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