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Under pressure a lot. I think he needs me and i think i need him, too, so were staying. Awesome this is going to be so great. Hi, folks, thank you for coming. Please, gather around. I would like to update you on a couple of things. A couple of weeks ago when i found out that the board was shutting us down, i didnt tell anyone. I want to apologize for that and for trying to handle the situation on my own. I realized since then it that i have friends who are here for me and that god loves me. I dont know where grayson grains will end up, but im here to sponsor this this years festival which will once again be called the bethlehem Christmas Festival [applause] praise the lord. Now go change that sign right back. Also, im reeen stating the nativity part of the program, which i cut last year, but this year i want to honor and celebrate god coming into the world. I wish i had some ways to keep the factory open but the truth is, i just dont. One way or another, i believe god will show up and
And members of the imperial family. This is to roman art what the parthenon frieze is to greek art. A sense of order and serenity pervades the scene. At the head of the procession, between his two consuls, is the damaged but recognizable image of augustus himself dignified, though not yet deified. All the other figures are portraits, too such as augustus daughter julia later banished for immoral conduct and her first husband, augustus minister Marcus Agrippa. Other reliefs celebrate the joy and fertility of nature in this time of peace. The universal harmony of the Natural World is represented by the fullbreasted reassuring figure of mother earth herself. The 100foothigh column commemorating trajans victory over the dacians shows the force required to keep the peace. Its unique spiral frieze tells of the discipline and resourcefulness of the roman lions. Moving by sea, assembling to hear their orders building fortifications, raiding an enemy town, and crossing the danube in small boats
Architecture, sculpture, painting, even the landscape, create a vision of a perfect place, a place of fantasy and myth where gods might walk with men, somewhere, of course, which has never existed in history. It is imagined, yet h been eated out of fragments of haleamt, halfremembed ancient greece and rome. The poet shelley wrote at the beginning of the 19th century, we are all greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts ll have thr roots in greece. But for greece, we might still have been savages and idaters. The human form and the human mind attained to a perfection in greece which has impressed its image on those faultless productions whose very fragments are the despair of modern art and which can never cease to delight mankind until the extinction of the race. In the 18th and 19th centuries, europeans surrounded themselves with the images of greece and rome. They created for themselves personal museums which displayed their wealth, taste, and learning and idealized th