And yet the garden can be a scene of struggle between the old guard, which seeks to maintain the status quo, and the more youthful forces for change and modernity.
The west pediment, with a scene of struggling men and centaurs, has something of the rigid formality of the Archaic spirit, but here—and in the metopes that show the labours of Heracles the artist has acutely observed differences of age in the human bodies and differences of expression pain, fear, despair, disgust in the faces.
But in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, which also has been the scene of struggle between separatists and supporters of the Ukrainian government, the OSCE met with deputies of the regional assembly.
One set of black and white photo images depict pastoral, almost Romantic scenes in the top of each frame while underneath another scene of struggle and death mounts in the same manner that images on a computer screen crawl upward consuming a previous image.
"A Jornada," to music by Marcelo Zarvos, played by an ensemble called Zarvos and Group, began with scenes of struggle recalling that capoeira was invented by African slaves.
Everything else is wondrously fierce and overheated, and this restoration raises the melodramatic temperature by interpolating pop-eyed silent-movie reaction shots and expertly choreographed scenes of struggle and riot.
Here is Bedford's portable darkroom, scene of minute struggles with the collodion process for making glass negatives.
Lebanon became the scene of a struggle for power between Druzes and Maronites, with undertones of social conflict.
Anbar is also a stronghold for Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, and could be the scene of a struggle between the groups as they seek to exploit popular anger.
