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ag⋅on

  [ag-ohn, -on, ah-gohn]
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–noun, plural a⋅go⋅nes  [uh-goh-neez] .
1. (in ancient Greece) a contest in which prizes were awarded in any of a number of events, as athletics, drama, music, poetry, and painting.
2. (italics) Greek. (in ancient Greek drama) a formalized debate or argumentation, esp. in comedy: usually following the proagon and preceding the parabasis.
3. Literature. conflict, esp. between the protagonist and the antagonist.
Origin:
1650–60; < Gk agn struggle, contest
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ag·on   (āg'ŏn, -ōn, ä-gōn')   
n.   pl. a·gon·es (ə-gō'nēz)
  1. A conflict, especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a work of literature.
  2. The part of an ancient Greek drama, especially a comedy, in which two characters engage in verbal dispute.
  3. A test of will; a conflict: "Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology" (Harold Bloom).
  4. A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.

[Greek agōn; see agony.]
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Agon

Ag"on\, n.; pl. Agones. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to lead.] (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at the public games.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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agon

debate or contest between two characters in Attic comedy, constituting one of several formal conventions in these highly structured plays. More generally, an agon is the contest of opposed wills in Classical tragedy or any subsequent drama

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Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008. Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
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