Temple of Artemis image carried through the streets and surrounded by maidens. In the Roman Imperial era, the emperor Commodus lent his name to the festival games, and might have sponsored them. From the Greek point of view, the Ephesian Artemis is a distinctive form of their goddess Artemis. In Greek cult and myth, Artemis is the twin of Apollo, a virgin huntress who supplanted the Titan Selene as goddess of the Moon. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was venerated in an archaic, pre-Hellenic cult image that was carved of wood (a "xoanon") and kept decorated with jewelry.
Son of God (TV series) and New Zealand. "Son of God" was devised in 1999, and was produced and joint-sponsored by BBC Manchester and the Discovery Channel in association with France 3 and Jerusalem Productions. The show was directed by Jean-Claude Bragard—whose previous BBC work had included "Kicking & Screaming – A History of Football" and the documentary series "Panorama"—and the executive producer was Ruth Pitt, who had worked on documentaries such as "42 Up" and Channel 4's "The State of Marriage". During its promotion, Pitt described "Son of God" as "the most complete biography of Jesus that [had] ever been done". Jeremy Bowen, a