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Agon  n.  (pl. agones)  (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at the public games.





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... instruction-book in the art of rhetoric; and a Fusikos lolos. Lastly, his Mouseion (a word of doubtful meaning) contained the narrative of the contest between Homer and Hesiod, two fragments of which are found in the 'Agon 'Omerou kai 'Esiodou, the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian. A 3rd-century papyrus (Flinders Petrie, Papyri, ed. Mahaffy, 1891, pl. xxv.) probably contains the actual remains of a description by ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Agon" :   celebration, festivity, Olympian Games, Isthmian Games, Pythian Games


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