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n. contest between competitors for a prize in ancient Greece; (in literary works) conflict between the protagonist and antagonist; any happy diversion, festivity

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AGON

AGON is a series of episodic adventure games for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows by Private Moon Studios. The game uses QuickTime VR-like panoramas in a first person camera mode. The game takes place starting in 1903.

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Agon (Classical Greek ) is an ancient Greek word with several meanings:

In one sense, it meant a contest, competition, especially the Olympic Games , or challenge that was held in connection with religious festivals.
In its broader sense of a struggle or contest, agon referred to a contest in athletics, chariot or horse racing, music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece.
Agon was also a mythological personification of the contests listed above. This god was represented in a statue at Olympia with halteres (dumbbells) in his hands. This statue was a work of Dionysius, and dedicated by a Smicythus of Rhegium.
In Ancient Greek drama, particularly old comedy (fifth century B.C.), agon refers to the formal convention according to which the struggle between the characters should be scripted in order to supply the basis of the action. Agon is a formal debate which takes place between the chief characters in a Greek play, protagonist and antagonist, usually with the chorus acting as judge. The meaning of the term has escaped the circumscriptions of its classical origins to signify, more generally, the conflict on which a literary work turns.
Harold Bloom in The Western Canon uses the term agon to refer to the attempt by a writer to resolve an intellectual conflict between his ideas and the ideas of an influential predecessor in which "the larger swallows the smaller", such as in chapter 18, Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare.
In sociopolitical theory, agon can refer to the idea that the clash of opposing forces necessarily results in growth and progress. (Colaguori 2012)

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Agón

Agón is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a human population of one hundred and ninety three.

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