In today's Olympics it is performed in a circular ring, with a boundary that has sector lines going out in a sixty-degree angle from the throwing ring. ... This technique simply focused on shuffling the feet from the back of the circle to the front in order to achieve more momentum. ... This is a major cause for fouls in competition, or throwing out of the sector lines. ...
Small temples had a two-columned front porch, sometimes with a portico before it. Larger temples, with front and back porches, might have a six- columned portico before each porch or be entirely surrounded by a colonnade. ... Also characteristic are the flower like decorations, which are blobs of paint scored with lines. ...
It has 5 legs (appears to be walking from the side, and standing erect from the front). ... VOCABULARY Apadana: an audience hall in a Persian palace Capital: the top element of a column Cuneiform: a system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge or arrow-head shape Cylinder seal: a round piece of carved stone that when rolled onto clay produces an image Facade: the front of a building Ground plan: the map of a floor of a building Hierarchy of scale: a system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art Lama...
In front of the United States Supreme Court building sits justice, portrayed as a Greco-Roman female goddess. ... A few fragments of women's writing exist, including lines from Sappho's poetry. ... In a procession fresco from Knossos, the main political palace of Minoan civilization, the priestess is shown receiving tribute, adulation and worship from two approaching lines of men. ...
