in the course of the Nika Riot, “ The temple of Sophia, the baths of Zeuxippus, and the imperial courtyard from the Propylaia all the way to the so-called House of Ares were burned up and destroyed, as were both of the great porticos that lead to the forum that is named after Constantine, houses of prosperous people, and a great deal of other properties .” The warring factions of Byzantine society, the Blues and the Greens, opposed each other in the chariot races at the Hippodrome and often resorted to violence.

: As on a chariot, the flood flows on, surpassing in majesty and might all other waters.

Massed chariot warfare became all but obsolete after the Warring-States Period ( 476 – 221 BC ).

On the way, he left behind his chariot, his bow, and his royal mantle, all of which were later picked up by Alexander.

Another source accounts that when Darius perceived the fierce attack of Alexander, as at Issus he turned his chariot around, and was the first to flee, once again abandoning all of his soldiers and his property to be taken by Alexander.

She was named Diva Augusta ( The Divine Augusta ), and an elephant-drawn chariot conveyed her image to all public games.

The rules of chaturanga seen in India today have enormous variation, but all involve four branches ( angas ) of the army: the horse, the elephant ( bishop ), the chariot ( rook ) and the foot-soldier ( pawn ), played on a 8x8 board.

Being angered, Laius either rolled a chariot wheel over his foot or hit him with his whip, and Oedipus killed Laius and all but one of his attendants, who claims it was a gang of men.

Chapter 16 of 1 Kings relates how Elah and all his family members were murdered by his chariot commander Zimri, who became his successor.

Odin took Dagr and his mother Nótt, gave them each a chariot and a horse — Dagr receiving the horse Skinfaxi, whose mane illuminates all the sky and the earth — and placed them in the sky to ride around the earth every 24 hours.

Arguably the greatest invention that affected not just the military, but all society, after adoption of fire, was the wheel, and its use in the construction of the chariot.

On the 17th day of the Great War when Karna is trying to extricate his chariot from the mud, Arjuna ( in spite of all the cruelty and unchivalrous acts previously meted out by Karna to the Pandavas ) hesitates to kill Karna.

The games for all Greeks were essentially the same as the Olympics, with boxing, wrestling, pankration, pentathlon, and chariot racing, but chariot racing was the most prestigious of these, unlike the Olympics where the stadion ( foot race ) was more important.

The hub-and-spoke distribution paradigm ( or model or network ) is a system of connections arranged like a chariot wheel, in which all traffic moves along spokes connected to the hub at the center.

He then ties Hector's body to the back of his chariot, dragging it around the city, leaving all the Trojans shocked.

It spread to the whole of Greece, Greater Greece and even its furthest colonies, and the athletes from all its parts, coming together for the Olympic Games and the other Panhellenic Games, competed naked in almost all disciplines, with the exception of chariot races, although there are depictions of naked chariot racers too.

** The chariot and all the angels bear Adam's body to the Garden and lay him on the earth.

A similar impression is conveyed by: " And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

29: And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.

17: And they fetched up, and brought forth out of Egypt a chariot for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: and so brought they out horses for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, by their means.

The movement of all the angels of the chariot are controlled by the " Likeness of a Man " on the Throne.

The classical lines of the church which Napoleon thought of as a Temple of Glory, dominated all the scene where we sat.

And so they went, he choosing of all places an inn near Medmenham Abbey, scene a generation ago of the obscene orgies of the Hellfire Club.

It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene, but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around.

As I was playing Mother Cabrini, the picture was actually `` all mine '', with nearly every scene built around me.

Sometimes she displays amazing eidetic imagery and seems to see all details in perspective, as if the scene were actually there.

This scene is a `` white ballet '' in which a lovelorn hero searches for his departed love's spirit among twenty-eight extraordinarily beautiful `` shadows '' who can all dance like nothing human -- which, of course, is altogether fitting.

The main objective of the ATS is to ensure < cite > in the interests of all humankind that Antarctica shall continue forever to be used exclusively for peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of international discord </ cite >.

First would be to film all the shots for a particular scene together, and all shots of consecutive scenes together ( if the scenes take place together, with no break between them in the film's timeline ).

The resulting surfaces have a characteristic ' flat ' appearance when no additional tricks are used, as if objects in the scene were all painted with matte finish.

By connecting outward light to inward light, via an interaction point, this equation stands for the whole ' light transport ' — all the movement of light — in a scene.

Relationship-An establishing shot might be a long shot of a room that shows all the characters from a particular scene.

The " laughing room " scene, where all the objects in the room seemingly come to life and begin to cackle maniacally along with Ash, came about after Spiegel jokingly used a gooseneck lamp to visually demonstrate a Popeye-esque laugh.

These were the key discoveries that made all non-live or non live-on-videotape narrative motion pictures and television possible — that shots ( in this case whole scenes since each shot is a complete scene ) can be photographed at widely different locations over a period of time ( hours, days or even months ) and combined into a narrative whole.

In Denmark the Nordisk company increased its production so much in 1915 and 1916 that it could not sell all its films, which led to a very sharp decline in Danish production, and the end of Denmark's importance on the world film scene.

When Fortinbras arrives to greet King Claudius, he encounters the deadly scene: Gertrude, Claudius, Laertes, and Hamlet are all dead.

The National Intelligencer enthused of Booth's Romeo, " the most satisfactory of all renderings of that fine character ", especially praising the death scene.

The American historian Gordon A. Craig once observed that of all the voluminous memoir literature of the diplomatic scene of 1930s Europe, there are only two positive references to Ribbentrop.

" This dreadful scene struck the Romans who were present with so much horror and compassion that they all cried out with one voice that they would rather die a thousand deaths in defence of their liberty than suffer such outrages to be committed by the tyrants.

These revisions, which since the Clarendon edition of 1869 have been assumed to include all of Act III, scene v, and a portion of Act IV, scene I, are often indicated in modern texts.

A master shot is a film recording of an entire dramatized scene, from start to finish, from an angle that keeps all the players in view.

Cooley, Reeve and Groussard all place Mossad chief Zvi Zamir and Victor Cohen, one of Zamir's senior assistants, at the scene as well, but as observers only.

One memorable scene shows Paganini's adversaries sabotaging his violin before a high-profile performance, causing all strings but one to break during the concert.

Bad Brains — all of whom were black, a rarity in punk of any era — launched the D. C. scene.