Sentence examples for dramatic competitions from inspiring English sources

Sophocles wrote more than 100 plays and won an estimated 24 dramatic competitions.

Its form and style influenced by religious ritual, traditionally thought to have contributed to the emergence of Greek theatre were dictated by its performance in the great dramatic competitions of the spring and winter festivals of Dionysus.

Priding himself on his intelligence and his literary sensitivity, he studied law; he honed his rhetorical skills; he entered dramatic competitions; he consulted astrologers; he mastered the complex, sinuous system of thought associated with the Persian cult known as Manichaeanism.

Thereafter, Sophocles emerged victorious in dramatic competitions at 18 Dionysia and 6 Lenaia festivals.

There are kids winning dramatic competitions across the country every year -- identifying stellar talent is not that hard, but it does require commitment.

For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most-fêted playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia.

These films, showcased in the dramatic competition, are the festival's most unusual offerings.

(When the play was entered in the annual springtime dramatic competition at Athens that year, it took third prize).

Of the 16 films in the dramatic competition there, 8 are by women, another optimistic statistic for the new year.

Almost 850 were entered in the dramatic competition alone, a number the judges had to winnow to 16.

This year I was a member of the Dramatic Competition jury, charged with judging 16 American feature films.