The Greek dráma from which the word drama descends is a derivation of the (Dorian) verb dran (“to do”, “to act”, “to effect with the body”). Greek Antiquity already used the term in genre typology to denote both tragedy and comedy, which differed from the other genres, such as the lyric poem, the epic, and the history, by the dominance of action portrayed by characters: Aristotle in his Poetics (Perí poiētikḗs, c. 335 BCE) defined dramas as …