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 the army is shown to be an awesome fighting machine. But there is no glorification of war itself, which is necessarily brutal and remorseless. The victory column and the triumphal arch through which the retuturning army marched dragging slaves and spoils of war, were forceful forms of propaganda for the righteousness of imperial power, guided by the emperor, the senate and the people of rome. It was the arch that was the basis of a revolutionary new architecture. The post and lintel system of the ancient world was limited in the space it could span and the weight it could bear. The romans soon recognized the archs strength and versatility and elaborated it into an art form of grandeur and utility. Roman stone arches like the one supporting this bridge built across the tiber in 62 b. C. Were constructed of wedgeshaped blocks. The block
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
Which is necessarily brutal and remorseless. The victory column and the triumphal arch through which the retuturning army marched dragging slaves and spoils of war, were forceful forms of propaganda for the righteousness of imperial power, guided by the emperor, the senate and the people of rome. It was the arch that was the basis of a revolutionary new architecture. The post and lintel system of the ancient world was limited in the space it could span and the weight it could bear. The romans soon recognized the archs strength and versatility and elaborated it into an art form of grandeur and utility. Roman stone arches like the one supporting this bridge built across the tiber in 62 b. C. Were constructed of wedgeshaped blocks. The blocks, wider at the top than at the bottom are locked into place by a central keystone. The weight of the structure compresses the blocks and is transmitted evenly from one to another, on either side down into the ground. From therch came a new conception
Suspect. They managed to track him down to this beach in texas last week. He is expected to make his First Court Appearance on thursday. Heres the thing. Police say matthews arrest has provided them with what theyre calling a forensic link to the abduction and death of Morgan Harrington from 2009. Its a link they are now purs pursuing. Lets talk about this with correspondent jean casarez who is in charlottesville for many days working this one and cnn analyst sunny hostin. We have to tackle two things. Forensic link, what does that mean and refresh everyones memory about what happened with Morgan Harrington. Forensic link. That could mean a number of things. People sometimes jump to conclusions. They think that must be definitive and that must be dna evidence because thats the csi effect we suffer from because of the shows and movies. So the bottom line is i think we have to be careful when we talk about forensic link because we dont really know what that means. That could certainly me
We have someone attacking someone in the building. Tonight terror in the heartland. The fbi is investigating a brutal beheading in moore, oklahoma after the suspects coworkers revealed he had been trying to convert them to islam. We have a woman in our Customer Service department. We encountered the first victim and did sever her head. You are looking right at the man accused of killing four marines right here on community soil. We are treating this as an act of domestic terrorism. Theyre after that guy. Theyre after that guy. Gunshots, gunshots multiple shots fired. We have 14 people that are confirmed dead in this incident. The fbi will not rule out terrorism as a possible moeftiv in todays deadly shooting rampage. Oh, my god, theyre all shooting back and forth. We have shots fired. They are requesting you to stay back. Breaking right now, gunfire erupting inside an orlando nightclub. I just could smell the ammo in the air. Im like, this is a gun, this isnt fireworks. We need to leav