The scene before you is indeed theatrical and often appears in movies about Rome.

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

The character of Jessica Fletcher is thought to be based on a combination of Miss Marple, Agatha Christie herself, and another Christie character, Ariadne Oliver, who often appears in the Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Dau Miu () is a Chinese vegetable that has become popular since the early 1990s, and now not only appears on English-language menus, usually as " pea shoots ", but is often served by upscale non-Asian restaurants as well.

On the surface, Andrew Carnegie appears to be a strict laissez-faire capitalist and follower of Herbert Spencer, often referring to himself as a disciple of Spencer.

The course of the rays in the meridional section is no longer symmetrical to the principal ray of the pencil ; and on an intercepting plane there appears, instead of a luminous point, a patch of light, not symmetrical about a point, and often exhibiting a resemblance to a comet having its tail directed towards or away from the axis.

The term or, which gives the ( unnormalised ) relative probability of a state, is called the Boltzmann factor and appears often in the study of physics and chemistry.

To this day, as a visual pun, a goat often appears on bock labels.

Most often she appears as an ugly, frightening hag, but she can also appear as a stunningly beautiful woman of any age that suits her.

Campbell often takes on quirky roles, such as Elvis Presley in the film Bubba Ho-tep, and appears in B-Movies and starred in My Name Is Bruce.

Dilbert is sometimes found in the business section of a newspaper instead of the comics page because of the strip's commentary about office politics, and Tank McNamara often appears on the sports page because of its subject matter.

Usually appearing as a trickster, a culture hero or both, Coyote also often appears in creation myths and etiological myths.

He is also considered to be the real person, with Superman the " alter ego ", though Kent often appears less in most episodes.

The term English Civil War appears most commonly in the singular form, although historians often divide the conflict into two or three separate wars.

Aeschylus gained thirteen victories as a dramatist, Sophocles at least twenty, Euripides only four in his lifetime, and this has often been taken as an indication of the latter's unpopularity with his contemporaries, and yet a first place might not have been the main criterion for success in those times ( the system of selecting judges appears to have been flawed ) and merely being chosen to compete was in itself a mark of distinction.

Geoff usually appears in private conversations in his office with Mike, and is often the catalyst for Mike to question the reassurance he has been given by a producer that the story of the moment is being ethically pursued.

Forseti appears in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game's pantheon, and is often chosen as a patron god by paladins.

Father Christmas often appears as a large man, often around 70 years old.

It is a matter for often heated debate whether this is a valid usage of the term, but ultimately it appears to be a semantic dispute.

While the dragon has often served as China's national emblem, internationally the panda appears at least as commonly.

Mayhew also often appears as a character in television and radio histories of Victorian London, played by Timothy West in the documentary London ( 2004 ) and by David Haig in the Afternoon Play A Chaos of Wealth and Want ( 2010 ).

Hilda Ellis Davidson ( 1948 ) states that Hel " as a goddess " in surviving sources seems to belong to a genre of literary personification, that the word hel is generally " used simply to signify death or the grave ," and that the word often appears as the equivalent to the English ' death ,' which Davidson states " naturally lends itself to personification by poets.

The female line of descent always appears at the bottom of a tabulated pedigree and is therefore often known as the bottom line.

Since the winding resistance appears as a resistance in series with the inductor, it is often called the series resistance.

Ribbentrop often woefully misunderstood both British politics and society.

Any conception of a traditional market for making beneficial exchanges, such as an agricultural market or trading pit, or any system where individuals respond to posted prices on a computer screen is woefully inadequate for the extremely large number of often complex trades that will be required.

Faced with violent acts of crime which may involve thousands, such as the Funeral riots in 1846 involving 9000 members from the Ghee Hin and Ghee Hock secret societies, the police force was woefully incapable of bringing the situation under control, and often had to call in the army for assistance.

Lord Sydney, often criticised as an ineffectual incompetent, had made one fundamental decision about the settlement that was to influence it from the start.

Therefore, some violations like suicide would be punished by separation from the community, such as not being buried in a Jewish cemetery ( in practice, rabbis often rule suicides to be mentally incompetent and thus not responsible for their actions ).

In later years the focus shifted from Kornfield Kounty residents stopping by to the comedic banter of Gordie and Gailord Sartain, who played the role of the incompetent Maynard, who often would send Gordie into fits of anger or agony by the skit's end.

Mutinies sprang up more often ( most due to simple war weariness ), morale was at its lowest, and the ( newly called up ) officers and commanders were at times very incompetent.

While many of his earlier fables were loosely based on Aesop's and La Fontaine's, later fables were original work, often satirizing the incompetent bureaucracy that was stifling social progress in his time.

Officials are too few, too busy, and often too incompetent to be able to micromanage the media as in the past.

* Gary Frank as Detective James Jarvis, a somewhat incompetent police detective who more often than not falsely accused the principal characters and their clients of murder.

However, it often led to the hiring of incompetent and sometimes corrupt officials due to the emphasis on party loyalty above any other qualifications.

Instead, the imperial court often made the decision based on whoever sent the news to the imperial court first, as the incompetent court assumed that the first one was usually the good one.

Although Tony considered him to be arrogant and incompetent as a boss, he has often turned to Junior as the voice of experience.

* " Judge Jamie "-A parody on numerous judge shows, Jamie played the role of James W. Leighland, an old, confused, and incompetent judge, often with perverted tendencies.

The majority of the Americans exhibit a range of blundering, corrupt, and incompetent behaviors, often concentrating on impractical projects that will serve more to benefit American contractors than the local population.

The story revolves around the often incompetent, sometimes genius, private investigator Harry Crumb in his search for a kidnapping victim.

This pattern also happened when Lord Zedd was introduced as well ; in addition to insulting the now apparently incompetent golden warrior, he often blamed Goldar for his own failures, and had a habit of silencing him ( and Squatt and Baboo ) frequently.

These tribunals ruled on " Islamic law ", but were in practice unfair, biased, and the judges were inexperienced and often incompetent.

His two children, Mason ( known to Karen as " the fat one ") and Olivia (" the girl "), by Stan's previous wife were often left in the incompetent care of Karen.

In practice, however, the SiPo and the SD frequently came into jurisdictional and operational conflict with each other, due in large part to the fact that the Gestapo and Kripo had many experienced, professional policemen and investigators, that considered the SD as an organisation of amateurs and often thought the SD a rather incompetent agency.

Xerxes was relatively incompetent compared to the other Titans, and was often barely tolerated, particularly by Agamemnon.

He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk.

Aspiration pneumonia is often caused by an incompetent swallowing mechanism, such as occurs in some forms of neurological disease or injury including multiple sclerosis, CVA ( stroke ) or intoxication.

Wise was occasionally accompanied by Constable Botham, who in the tradition of British police fiction, was an incompetent buffoon, jeopardising missions and often striking up conversations with criminals believing they were Wise in disguise.

In effect of this common approach, a single / small group of protagonist ninja often easily defeat waves of incompetent enemy ninja on multiple occasions only to have far more trouble when facing a more competent lone ninja.

Military authority, especially the uncaring and / or incompetent leader is often the subject of parody and derision.

He is often shown to be slightly incompetent and loses his job in one episode.