Ancient Greece
Culture
Drama and Dramatic Arts

In ancient Greece, drama was a form of literature. Dramatic arts were the contents necessary for writing, acting, costume and scenic designs. The word drama comes from the Greek word, "to do". 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.

Literature

The literature of the Greek people happened from about the 2nd millennium BC until now. The literature was developed as a national expression with little outside control, but it was like that only until the Hellenistic period, and it had some effect upon all of the European literature.

During the early period of all of the Greek Literature had almost entirely verse in this form. Another gender developed in the 6th century BC was a type of thoughtful poems which were related to the ballad. In about the 5th century BC, some of the earliest Greek ordinary language were working now for surviving where it was produced.

Art and Architecture

The art and architecture of Greece and Greek colonies dated from about 1100 to the 1st century BC. They have their own reasons in Aegean civilization. Greek art illustrated by the copy of their living and it's concerned both with some formal proportion and with lots of actives of action and emotions. The primary subject of their matter is the human figure, which stands for either gods or man such as monsters, animals, and plants.

Greek architecture is usually worked by marble or limestone using wood and tiles for making the roofs. Some large chooser slates were made out of plants of hammers bronze or consisted of wooden cores covered in gold. Now you can see that the Greeks were very artistic.



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Ancient Greece Art and Architecture.


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