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when all of a sudden an olive tree is lifted from the center of the pool—symbolizing goddess Athena's preferred gift by the Greeks—land and food—over
Poseidon's gift, the horse—a tool of warfare. At the music's climax, all the characters stop and raise their arms as if worshipping the Tree, which is high above, surrounded also by the fragments of the deconstructed statues who resemble a mount.
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confluence of the past and present, love and passion as the progenitors of history, and humanity's attempt to understand itself. The second part, called the "Clepsydra," or "Hourglass," celebrates the themes introduced in the "Allegory" section through a portrayal of Greek history from the ancient to the modern times.
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His music includes a number of specially composed fanfares and processionals to accompany the arrival of the IOC President, the lighting of the
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flooring that drained its water in three minutes, beautiful and innovative lighting, and an ingenious staging system utilizing a complex network of automated cables that lifted, maneuvered, and choreographed the floating pieces of sculpture to follow the music and narrative of the opening ceremony.
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This quote was printed as is from the Media Guide. The actual quote from the Iliad is commonly translated as "Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again.
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carries a flag with an image of an olive branch symbolizing not only peace but Athens itself, lapped around the stadium, symbolically crossing tape dedicated to the previous 27 Olympiads. The runner symbolically stumbles at the 1916, 1940, and 1944 Games which were canceled due to world wars. The
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At the end of the parade, "Eros" lowered enough to help a pregnant woman remove her outer garment. This last part represents the ceremony coming into full circle: the "Clepsydra" segment began with the image of the Minoan fertility goddess and is now ending with a pregnant woman representing the
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The segments that followed were divided in two main parts. The first part of the main artistic segment of the opening ceremony was called "Allegory." "Allegory" introduced the main conceptual themes and ideals that are going to be omnipresent throughout the entire opening ceremony, such as the
634:' poem "Mythistorema 3." As the verse is being recited on the speakers, the spotlights are focused upon a woman clad in a black gown looking out to the water. Holding a marble sculpture head, the woman seems to be entering into a dream. As she looks into the dark water, a
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ever to spin live at the
Olympics. During the course of his performance the Dutch athletes started dancing in front of the DJ booth and had to be moved on by officials. Tiësto later released a condensed version of the performance on CD titled
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Mr
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appears whose human and animal parts supposedly symbolize the duality of spirit and body. The centaur then walks about and then throws a spear of light into the center of the stadium, from which a giant statue that exemplifies
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runner ended his run at the very center of the stadium, where the olive tree from the artistic section has appeared, symbolizing the Modern
Olympic Games journey around the world, and coming back home to Athens.
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future of all humanity and history. With belly glowing, the woman moves into the lake of water as the stadium's lights dim and lights underneath the pool of water turn on, thus creating an image of stars in a
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art (and thus one of the first depictions of the human form in Greek art) emerges. This Cycladic head also represents one of the first attempts of humanity to understand itself. With the use of
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which translates into English as "I declare open the Olympic Games of Athens...and the celebration of the XXVIII Olympiad of the modern era."
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beginnings, and viewed through the progression of Greek art."
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4442:"Athens Olympics close, and NBC cashes in - Aug. 30, 2004"
4402:"Athens' bumpy road to the Olympics leads to lavish open"
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They then passed on the flag to the eight sailors of the
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were emotional highpoints of the parade. The nation of
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4789:"Blair arrives for Olympic opening"
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1472:Secretary General of NATO
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5306:Flag bearers by country
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1761:Carlos Morales Quintana
1715:Christodoulos of Athens
1670:Konstantinos Mitsotakis
1568:Host nation dignitaries
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5752:2004 Summer Olympics
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3880:Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan
3317:Jan Peter Balkenende
3260:Kjell Magne Bondevik
3126:Anne, Princess Royal
2933:Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
2883:Demetris Christofias
2716:Nursultan Nazarbayev
2693:Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
1751:Anne-Marie of Greece
1741:King of the Hellenes
1707:Georgios Voulgarakis
1691:Anna Benaki-Psarouda
1645:Minister for Culture
1495:President of the IOC
1308:1996 Olympic sailing
1301:Ioannis Melissanidis
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2236:Marie-Alice Leclerc
1783:Foreign dignitaries
1353:President of Kosovo
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1059:Rice-Eccles Stadium
1019:Pierre de Coubertin
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4968:Opening ceremonies
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4036:Mikis Theodorakis
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2434:George H. W. Bush
2097:Princess Mathilde
2035:Wolfgang Schüssel
1765:Princess Theodora
1759:with her husband
1735:Kingdom of Greece
1721:Cabinet of Greece
1683:George Papandreou
1674:President of the
1648:Kostas Karamanlis
1452:Vladimir Rushailo
1445:Secretary General
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1185:Valerios Leonidis
1155:Ilias Hatzipavlis
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