This temple is dated to the 9th century B.C., so it’s later than Samson, but it is more evidence of such Philistine structures with two central pillars, in conjunction with the other three ...

A SECESSIONIST SAMSON. Share full ... as inviting his constituents to fling their arms around the pillars of the Federal temple, ... analogies between the temple of Liberty and that of Dagon.

It evokes the final act of the biblical judge Samson, who, blind and bound by the Philistines, found the strength to bring down the pillars of the temple of Dagon, killing his enemies —and ...

Just as Samson asked God for strength one last time to bring down the pillars that supported the foundations of the Temple of Dagon in Gaza where 3000 people died ...

Well, no one could accuse the opening of the Met's new season, with Darko Trasnjak's production of Saint-Saens' SAMSON ET DALILA, to Ferdinand Lemaire's libretto, of being drab. Starry, certainly.

The taunting of Samson in the temple of Dagon, with Elina Garanča as an iconesque Dalila and SeokJong Baek's Samson to the right All images by Clive Barda for the Royal Opera Words and situations are ...