Agon

/ˈæ.ɡəʊn/

Synonyms for "agon" (12 found)

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athletic contestchoral exchangedebate scenedramatic contestfactional strifeideological conflictpersonal strugglepolitical clashrhetorical contestrhetorical exchangetournamentverbal dispute

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Greek dramaagonic tensionagonistic frameworkagonistic politicsclassical tragedydramatic agon

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It was not ecological pressure or shortages of protein, as anthropologist Marvin Harris has claimed; institutionalized violence, as opposed to the stylized agons of hunters over grievances, was the shadow side of the Neolithic Revolution.

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One way of reading Beowulf is to think of it as three agons in the hero's life[.]

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The other ethical system is that of agon. Agon is a battlefield. We enter agon not to exchange, but to fight. We dream of winning but are also prepared to lose – including to lose ourselves, even in the literal sense of dying for a great cause.

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Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.

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