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Agon (Ancient Greek: ἀγών) is the Greek personification for a conflict, struggle or contest, describing a concept of the same name. This could be a contest in athletics, in chariot or horse racing, or in music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece.
Agon (or queen's guards or royal guards) is a strategy game invented by Anthony Peacock [1] of London, and first published in 1842. [2] It is a two-player game played on a 6×6×6 hexagonal gameboard, and is notable for being the oldest known board game played on a board of hexagonal cells.
Agon is a 22-minute ballet for twelve dancers with music by Igor Stravinsky. It was choreographed by George Balanchine . Stravinsky began composition in December 1953 but was interrupted the next year; he resumed work in 1956 and concluded on April 27, 1957.
Agon, a 2012 Albanian film; Agon (band), a Ukrainian pop band; Agon (comics), a Marvel Comics character; Agon Kongo, a character in the Eyeshield 21 anime and manga series; AGON, a series of episodic adventure games for the Mac and PC; Agon, one of the four elements of play identified by Roger Caillois in his book Man, Play and Games
Agonism (from Greek ἀγών agōn 'struggle') is a political and social theory that emphasizes the potentially positive aspects of certain forms of conflict. It accepts a permanent place for such conflict in the political sphere, but seeks to show how individuals might accept and channel this conflict positively.
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Jorge Aguilar-Agon was born in Barcelona in 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War. [1] [2] After attaining a university degree in agriculture, [1] he left Spain for Germany and mixed with the bohemian circles of the Schwabinger Kunstkreis in Munich. He later moved on to France where he lived for a time in Montmartre and St Germain des ...
Agon (Ukrainian: Агонь, translation from Belarusian: Fire) is a Ukrainian-based pop boyband from Ukraine made up of Anton Savlepov, Konstantine Borovski and Nikita Goryuk. Assembled in Kyiv in 2016 by former members of Quest Pistols Show , the group has released one album and several singles so far.