Agon
Agon (ancient Greek for "fight, competition") stands for:
- Agon (competition) , ancient sporting or musical competition
- Agon (mythology) , personification of competition in Greek mythology
- Agon (ancient theater) , main part of Attic comedy and tragedy: speech and counter-speech
- Agon (litigation) , historical litigation in Athens during the times of Attic democracy
- Agon (first name) , Albanian male first name
- one of the foundations of the game after the French sociologist Roger Caillois
- Agon (music) , musical competitions
- Agon (ballet) , by Igor Stravinsky (1953/1964)
- Agon Orchestra , music ensemble as a platform for young Czech composers and musicians
- Agon Sportverlag , book publisher from Kassel
- Agon sutra , one of four agama sutras in Mahāyāna Buddhism
- DJK Agon 08 Düsseldorf , women's basketball team
Place:
- Agon-Coutainville , commune in the Manche department, France
Person:
- Jean-Paul Agon (* 1956), French business manager (L'Oréal)
See also:
- Agon-shū (so-called New Religion in Japan)
- Agona (disambiguation)
- Agone (geodesy) (imaginary connecting line between locations of the same declination)
- Agony (prolonged agony )
- Agony (Swedish thrash metal band)
- Agonist / agonistic (disambiguation)
Wiktionary: Agon - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
