From the poetic to the platonic 'agon'
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This paper aims to show in what extent the platonic text is fundamentally linked to a kind of evolution of the agonistic forms of Greek drama, as a new and particular form of the dramatic agon. Conscious of the techniques of the agon in the dramatic genre, Plato would have reformulated its conventions, according to his own purposes. In this sense, this work intends to be an investigation about the Platonic appropriation of a stylistic structure belonging to a tradition of discourses in which the agonal universe is expressed in the dialogical form. In order to develop the possible relations of continuity and discontinuity between the agòn lógon of tragedy and the dialogical structure of the Platonic dialogues, we propose a comparative analysis based on a chosen scene of Euripides’ The Phoenician Women (see 446-635).
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