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 Drama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drama is also often combined with music and dance, such as in opera which is sung throughout, musicals which include spoken dialog and songs, or plays that have musical accompaniment, such as the Japanese Noh drama.
Improvisational drama is drama that has no set script, in which the performers take their cues from one another and the situations (sometimes established in advance) in which their characters find themselves to create their own dialogue as they perform.
Drama therapy is often considered an effective treatment for people who have had severe emotional and psychological problems, although it is important to note that the evidence to support therapeutic efficacy of Drama therapy is anecdotal rather than scientific.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drama   (1492 words)

  
 Drama, Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Drama (Greek: Δράμα) is a town in northeastern Greece.
In the Roman era, Drama was known as Dravescus (Δραβήσκος), and it had been a trade center and a military camp on the Roman Via Egnatia.
Drama is endowed with rich water resources and according to some sources at the same site during ancient times there was a town named Hydrama (Hydro, Greek: having to do with water) to which Drama owes its name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Drama,_Greece   (280 words)

  
 Drama, Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Drama is well known in the region as a party place: it has the best bars, clubs and tavernas in the greater area.
Drama was also the capital of a greater province during the Roman and Ottoman rule.
Drama is a beehive during the first days of September, the time when the festival is on.
www.cs.sunysb.edu /~kostas/Drama   (1366 words)

  
 Greek Drama
Three types of drama were composed in Athens: tragedy, comedy, and satyr plays, the latter of which seemed not to be taken quite as seriously, at least during the Greek Enlightenment (450-400).
It is important to understand that drama began in the Greek world as a form of religious ritual; and although drama in classical Athens became a great day out and ripping good entertainment, especially if there was alot of blood and gore, its religious character was never really lost on the audience.
Hence, the drama works out many of the characteristics all religious ritual works out: explaining the relation of the human to the divine, of the human to the material world, of explaining violence and its origins, and attempting to control the irrational and the material worlds.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~dee/GREECE/DRAMA.HTM   (797 words)

  
 Welcome to Trade International, Inc. -- Articles
Greece rates highly on literacy at 95% and is one of the highly advanced nations in the world, besides being one of the oldest to explore marble.
Greece provides rare varieties of marbles which can scarcely be found elsewhere and which have greatly contributed to the history of civilization.
It is interesting to note that Greece had the biggest decline in imports of stone to the USA by a drop of 35% in 1991 versus 1990.
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 Anglo-Hellenic Teacher Recruitment - English Teachers in Greece
Drama, the capital of the named prefecture, is built in the foothills of the Falakro Mountains, in an area of rich vegetation and plentiful water and is traversed by the River Nestos and its many tributaries.
In the Byzantine period Drama knew great cultural prosperity, which continued during the period of the Makedonian Empire from c 9th to c 11th.
The town of Drama is surrounded by large wooded plains and encircled by remarkable settlements like Nea Amisos, Sevasteia, Taxiarchis or Sipsa, Sadik Tsiflik, Pasali, Timotheos and others.
www.anglo-hellenic.com /vacancies/drama.htm   (532 words)

  
 Drama - Greece - Rentals!
However, Greecexplorer recommends the collaborating car rentals in Drama, cause if you wish to rent a car in Drama, you have to be very careful as to the terms under which the car rentals, and the bike rentals, deliver the vehicles.
Also the traffic rules in Greece are not very headed to mainly by the tourists and the Greeks too, which makes it rather difficult to drive.
Some of the material for wind surfing for rent in Drama Greece, is available at all beaches, except at the beach in Drama town, where it is forbidden to wind surf, due to the heavy marine traffic.
www.greecexplorer.com /drama/rentals.php   (396 words)

  
 Museums of Macedonia, Greece — Archaeological Museum
It was built by the Municipality of Drama and made over to the Ministry of Culture so that the prefecture could have an archaeological museum.
The exhibits record the cultural history of Drama prefecture from the Middle Palaeolithic to 1914.
The Early Christian period in the area is represented by coins and pottery from the settlement at Drama and from Philippi.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Museums/Archaeological_and_Byzantine/Arx_Dramas.html   (249 words)

  
 drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The origins of drama as we know it are more the concern of anthropologists because drama and religious ritual seem to have been bound up with one another in the earlier stages of all civilizations.
Liturgical drama, confined to the church and designed to embellish the ecclesiastical ritual, thus gave way to plays in English, performed in the open and separated from the liturgy though still religious in subject matter.
The growing popularity and diversity of the drama, its secularization, and the growth of a class of writers who were not members of holy orders led in the 16th century to a new literary phenomenon, the secular professional playwright..
athena.english.vt.edu /~jmooney/renmats/drama.htm   (4617 words)

  
 Museums of Macedonia, Greece — Folklore Museum
In recent years, the Lyceum of Greek Girls in Drama has launched a project to classify and display its considerable collection of costumes and artefacts of the folk culture of Drama and the wider area.
The museum has reached the final stages of arranging the exhibits in the showcases and is expected to open its doors to the public in mid-2000.
The exhibits include, among many other things, a number of authentic folk costumes from Drama, the surrounding area, and the rest of Greece, old furniture from urban and rural homes, a barrel-organ, and a multitude of old objects.
www.macedonian-heritage.gr /Museums/Folklore/Laografiko_Dramas.html   (127 words)

  
 Drama - Greece - Dining and Entertainment!
When you hear the words - restaurants Drama Greece – it is the traditional greek food and the greek specialties that shall spoil you.
The Drama restaurants are all easily found, as most of them are on the main streets with beautiful and glamorous lights, with inviting show cases with the traditional greek dishes displayed in front.
In Greece dinning is not complete if one has the Greek traditional dishes without the Greek wines and the traditional ouzo and raki, not to omit the traditional pasticcio or pastizio.
www.greecexplorer.com /drama/restaurants.php   (253 words)

  
 Study Abroad Greece Page
The cradle of democracy, literature, philosophy and drama, Greece boasts a culturally diverse legacy.
Greece 's mountainous landscape is superb for trekking, and the Aegean sea is spectacular for windsurfing.
Greece's cultural offerings are phenomenal from Greek dramas performed in ancient Greek theatres to a fascinating array of traditional folk crafts such as embroidery, weaving and tapestry.
www.iiepassport.org /Archive/GreeceIIE.html   (637 words)

  
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By the end of the sixth century, philosophers begin to question the metaphysical nature of the cosmos with inquiries into the nature of being, the meaning of truth, and the relationship between the divine and the physical world.
Pythagoras and his followers found the city of Croton and combine philosophy and literature with political activity as the foundation of their community.
His contribution to the history of Greek tragedy is his creation of a drama that deals with situations analogous to human life.
eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/grpage.htm   (1812 words)

  
 Imaginative Freedom and Strict Forms (from drama) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
In a strange sense (to Western ways of thinking), classical Asian drama is probably the most formal, controlled, and yet, at the same time, imaginatively suggestive and stimulating tradition in world theater.
The name derives from the cloak and sword that were part of the typical street dress of students, soldiers, and cavaliers, the favourite heroes.
Drama comes from Greek words meaning “to do” or “to act.” A drama, or play, is basically a story acted out.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-236691   (685 words)

  
 Profile: Nicos Lazaridis of Chateau Lazaridi, Drama
The venture was one of Greece's most ambitious winery concepts of that decade.
The framers of Greece's appellations, with no reason to do otherwise, made no mention whatever of the region when penning the laws in the early 1970s.
On the one hand its finish is not as sturdy as in the reds from Drama, on the other hand its acidity, though at similar levels, is a more pronounced end-taste.
www.greekwinemakers.com /czone/winemakers/Lazaridi_N.shtml   (1871 words)

  
 205 A Brief History of Classical Greece, Classical Drama and Theatre
By the early days of the fifth century (the 490's BCE), the Athenians had settled into their new type of government where the general populace exerted direct control of the city through assemblies and the enactment of laws, and measures were regularly being passed by a majority vote of some sort.
During the fourth century, the Macedonians gradually consolidated their power in northern Greece and under the leadership of Philip II, a crafty and intelligent ruler and a general of great skill, began to expand their influence southwards.
The history of Greece is a tale of glory and folly, of inordinate success and incalculable waste, worthy of being a Greek tragedy itself.
www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/051clasgk.htm   (2095 words)

  
 Greece Project 1
In ancient Greece, drama was a form of literature.
Greek drama is usually associated with all the ideas of action.
Often, drama is thought as a kind of a story in the lives of the characters.
www.internet-at-work.com /hos_mcgrane/greece/eg_greece_2.html   (317 words)

  
 Women in Ancient Greek Drama, A Discussion by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio
But the women of ancient Greece were an active part of a very creative culture and they participated to a great depth in a wide variety of interests including: poetry, healing arts, prophecy, sculpture, painting, music performance and composition, education, astronomy, astrology, philosophy, athletics, religion, rhetoric, writing plays, history, politics, mathematics, martial arts, dance.
Answer: The drama of ancinet Greece was a religious ceremony in which the audience witnessed the effects of the deities.
Drama was a part of religious festivals in Greece and did not affect the status of women until drama was taken out of the realm of religion during the Roman period.
www.fjkluth.com /gdrama.html   (16925 words)

  
 The Ancient Greeks - the Athenians of Ancient Greece.
Held every four years, athletes came from all regions of Greece to compete in the great Stadium of Olympia and honor their supreme god, Zeus.
There was a truce called every four years in Greece in order for the citizens of different city-states to travel to Athens for the Olympic Games.
Ancient Greece was one of the largest contributors to present-day civilization.
www.arwhead.com /Greeks   (748 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Drama, Greece Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is the capital of the Prefecture of Drama.
The Drama Prefecture is part of the Region of East Macedonia and Thrace.
It is the trade center for a tobacco-producing region.
www.ipedia.com /drama__greece.html   (98 words)

  
 Macedonia in Greece - Drama prefecture
Ôhe prefectural capital, Drama, lies at the foot of Mt. Falakro, which the locals call "the mountain of the flowers".
Southeast of Drama (10 km.) is the pretty market town of Doxato, with facilifies for tourists and a reputation for fun and high spiritis.
from Drama, filled with stunning coloured stalactites, some of which are 2 metres in diameter with tips reaching the water's surface.
www.vacation-macedonia.com /drama   (314 words)

  
 Theology Today - Vol 31, No. 2 - July 1974 - ARTICLE - Inter-Play Between the Religious and the Dramatic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It is a form of drama which expresses itself not in regular cyclic ritual with many actors assuming traditional roles but through rare commemorative festivals when a whole society celebrates under the guidance of some inspired leader.
There is drama that has developed from the dance, the form of activity in which a society identifies itself artistically with some aspect of the rhythmic life-process of the natural order.
The supreme expression of drama of the second type is the covenant in blood, for this is concerned with the restoration of ordered relations, with the complete death of alienation and separation, and the creation of new life in the fellowship of reconciliation.
theologytoday.ptsem.edu /jul1974/v31-2-article4.htm   (2556 words)

  
 India (from drama) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His escape, possibly the most thrilling episode in a life filled with high drama, was to change the course of Indian history.
Closet drama is not to be confused with readers' theatre, in which actors read or recite without decor before an audience.
Covers art and dance forms, music, literature, drama, media, educational and research institutions, and social and religious reformers.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-236692   (739 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Melodrama
The form, which began in the ancient Greek theater, became popular in...
Drama is a type of literature usually written to be performed.
Dráma (city, Greece), city in northern Greece, capital of the nome (department) of Dráma, 113 km (70 mi) northeast of Thessaloniki.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Melodrama.html   (110 words)

  
 Greek American Operational Group OSS, Part 6 continued
She was from Argirokastro, a village near Drama, and was visiting her aunt's family in Drama.
I was a little puzzled because she was dressed sharply and had silk stockings unlike the girls in Drama.
The next evening she and I took off by ourselves toward the Drama high school which was on the outskirts of town.
www.pahh.com /oss/pt6/p54.html   (811 words)

  
 103 A Brief History of Early and Pre-Classical Greece, Classical Drama and Theatre
The geography of Greece is a primary factor, if not the pre-eminent feature of the culture and lives of the ancient populations who lived there.
These natives and their culture were overwhelmed and ultimately utterly annihilated by the invasion of a new people known now as the Indo-Europeans (click here to read more about the Indo-Europeans).
One racial group of the Indo-Europeans was called the Ionians who settled along the eastern coast of Greece, in particular the city of Athens, and along the western coast of Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/031gkhist.htm   (2438 words)

  
 GREECE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Greece continues to shine with crisp bright white wines.
The Kostas Lazaridis winery is one of the most modern wineries in Greece and is leading the way in the wine region of Drama.
Made with Greece's indigenous agiorgitiko grape, this dry wine is an excellent introductory wine and delivers a lot of bang for the buck.
www.duvinfinewines.com /_wsn/page7.html   (1399 words)

  
 Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece
Aristophanes, who competed in the major Athenian festivals, wrote 40 plays, 11 of which survived--including the most controversial piece of literature to come from ancient Greece, Lysistrata, a humorous tale about a strong woman who leads a female coalition to end war in Greece.
Although only 33 tragedies and 11 comedies remain from such a creative period, the Greeks were responsible for the birth of drama in the Western world.
The purpose of this project is to show the highlights of different periods of theatre history, including plays, acting styles, staging convention, costuming, and playwrights.
www.cwu.edu /~robinsos/ppages/resources/Theatre_History/Theahis_2.html   (866 words)

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