According to a 16th century French poem, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, and of wine, was pursuing a maiden named Amethystos, who refused his affections.

According to the historian Herodotus, the poet threw away his shield to make good his escape from the victorious Athenians then celebrated the occasion in a poem that he later sent to his friend, Melanippus.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to one theory, the term was loaned to Russian, where-in literary language-it first appeared in " Elysei ", a 1771 poem by V. Maikov.

According to Lycophron's Alexandra ( 808 ) and John Tzetzes ' scholia on the poem ( 795-808 ), however, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to life after he had been killed by Telegonus.

According to legend, the publication of his poem Hymn to the Pillory caused his audience at the pillory to throw flowers instead of the customary harmful and noxious objects and to drink to his health.

According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

According to some critics, the second stanza of the poem, forming a conclusion, was composed at a later date and was possibly disconnected from the original dream.

( According to the prose introduction to the poem Tyr is now one-handed from having his arm bitten off by Loki's son Fenrir while Fenrir was bound.

According to a poem of the dindsenchas, Lugh was responsible for the death of Bres.

According to Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda book Skáldskaparmál, in his retelling of the Poetic Edda poem Lokasenna, she is married to Ægir and they have nine daughters together.

According to Lokasenna, Loki rebukes the gods at the start of the poem for not properly welcoming him to the feast at Ægir's hall.

According to Lucretius's frequent statements in his poem, the main purpose of the work was to free Gaius Memmius's mind of the supernatural and the fear of death — and to induct him into a state of ataraxia.

According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the spring of 1798.

According to the Syair Awang Semaun ( also spelled Simawn ), Brunei's national epic poem, the present-day sultanate originated when Dewa Emas Kayangan descended to earth from heaven in an egg.

According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's " inaction " clause because of Arthur Hugh Clough's poem " The Latest Decalogue ", which includes the satirical lines " Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive ".

According to Kilmer's oldest son, Kenton, the poem was written on 2 February 1913 when the family resided in Mahwah, New Jersey.

According to them, trobar means " inventing a trope ", the trope being a poem where the words are used with a meaning different from their common signification, i. e. metaphor and metonymy.

According to legend, fellow soldiers retrieved the poem after McCrae, initially unsatisfied with his work, discarded it.

According to Fussell, " In Flanders Fields " was the most popular poem of its era.

According to the show, her brother is Poe De Spell, who was transformed into a raven and serves as her magical familiar – this is a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's poem " The Raven ".

* According to the very late Trollkyrka poem, the fire for the blót was lit with nine kinds of wood.

According to the Sicilian Greek poet Stesichorus, in his poem the " Song of Geryon ", and the Greek geographer Strabo, in his book Geographika ( volume III ), the Hesperides are in Tartessos, a location placed in the south of the Iberian peninsula.

According to the epic poem La Araucana, the colors were derived from those from the flag flown by the Mapuche during the Arauco War.

According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.

According to her diaries, Volume One, 1931 – 1934, Nin abandoned formal schooling at the age of sixteen years and later began working as an artist's model.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

According to Ivinskaya, " He began to say what an authentic event the funeral was -- an expression of what people really felt, and so characteristic of the Russia which stoned its prophets and did its poets to death as a matter of longstanding tradition.

According to Ivinskaya, The graveside service now began.

According to the Constantine VII christianization of Croats began in the 7th century, but the claim is disputed and generally christianization is associated with the 9th century.

According to historian Christopher Moore, coalition governments in Canada became much less possible in 1919 when the leaders of parties were no longer chosen by elected MPs, but instead began to be chosen by party members.

According to Vincent Scramuzza and others, Claudius began work on a history of the Civil Wars that was either too truthful or too critical of Octavian.

According to the sources, Constans began his reign in an energetic fashion.

According to C. Michael Hogan, the Daugava River began experiencing environmental deterioration in the era of Soviet collective agriculture ( producing considerable adverse water pollution runoff ) and a wave of hydroelectric power projects.

According to scholars Carole Kismaric and Marvi Heiferman, " The golden age of detective fiction began with high-class amateur detectives sniffing out murderers lurking in rose gardens, down country lanes, and in picturesque villages.

According to Robert K. G. Temple, the study of endocrinology began in China.

According to genetic studies, divergence of primates from other mammals began and the earliest fossils appear in the Paleocene, around.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).

According to Newsinger, although Orwell " was always critical of the 1945 – 51 Labour government's moderation, his support for it began to pull him to the right politically.

Papias does not identify his Matthew, but by the end of the 2nd century the tradition of Matthew the tax-collector had become widely accepted, and the line " The Gospel According to Matthew " began to be added to manuscripts.

According to the traditional Islamic view, the Qur ' an ( Koran ) began with revelations to Muhammad ( when he was 40 years old ) in 610.

According to some scholars, a third division, the Anthropocene, began in the 18th century.

According to Herodotus, Libya began where ancient Egypt ended, and extended to Cape Spartel, south of Tangier on the Atlantic coast.

According to his writings, Braid began to hear reports concerning various Oriental meditative practices soon after the release of his first publication on hypnotism, Neurypnology ( 1843 ).

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to his son ( Johnny Jr ), Johnny ( senior ) was named Peter by his parents ; but, once he began to be successful as a swimmer, he formally used his brother's name, Johnny, because his brother John was, by birth, an American citizen ( and had official records that verified this fact ), and Peter was not ( this was done so that non-citizen Peter could represent USA in the Olympics ).