* According to tradition ( Horace, Odes, iii.

According to the Eastern Han scholar Zheng Xuan, the latest material in the Shijing was the song " Tree-stump Grove " ( 株林 ) in the " Odes of Chen ", dated to the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period ( c. 700 BC ).

According to Pindar ( Nemean Odes no.

According to the Odes of the poet Pindar, Hercules then founded the Olympic Games:

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

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 an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

According to another comic poet, Teleclides, the plays of Euripides were co-authored by the philosopher Socrates.

According to poet and author Vidya Dhar Mahajan, Nur Jahan had a piercing intelligence, a versatile temper and sound common sense.

According to the Hellenistic poet Euphorion of Chalcis, Laocoön is in fact punished for procreating upon holy ground sacred to Poseidon ; only unlucky timing caused the Trojans to misinterpret his death as punishment for striking the Horse, which they bring into the city with disastrous consequences.

According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap " bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally.

According to the American writer Kevin Self, in the 1920s a German committee member of the International Electrotechnical Commission proposed giga-as a prefix for 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >, drawing on a verse by the humorous poet Christian Morgenstern that appeared in the third ( 1908 ) edition of Galgenlieder ( Gallows Songs ).

According to Shane MacGowan, amongst the reasons of the breakup was disagreement concerning the political orientation of his songs, the band not wanting to sing too obvious pro-republican songs — though some of their previous songs were already politically engaged: for instance, Streams of Whiskey is about the poet and IRA member Brendan Behan.

According to the epic poet Virgil, he was a legendary king of the Latins who came with his people from Arcadia.

According to the tragic poet Euripides, Medea continued her revenge, murdering her two children by Jason.

According to the poet Eumelus to whom the fragmentary epic Korinthiaka is usually attributed, Medea killed her children by accident.

According to the late poet Susan ' Stormi ' Chambless, the hippies buried an effigy of a hippie in the Panhandle to demonstrate the end of his / her reign.

According to the historian and poet John Barbour, King Robert Bruce rebuked the folly of his brother, even though Dundee had probably fallen to the Scots through a similar arrangement in 1312.

According to Solon the poet, Solon the reformer was a voice for political moderation in Athens at a time when his fellow citizens were increasingly polarized by social and economic differences:

According to Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers -- The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney, Halliburton's message to seek one's destiny abroad, and to embrace romantic enterprises, drew its chief inspiration, as did the new cult of youth emerging after World War I, from poet Rupert Brooke.

According to fellow poet and close friend Warren Kinthompson, he had " lost his will to live after the death of a younger sister.

According to Historia Augusta, Numerian was a man of considerable literary attainments, remarkably amiable and known as a great orator and poet.

According to the poet Sidonius Apollinaris, the cause of the fall of Majorian was the jealousy of Aetius ' wife, who feared that Majorian could overshadow Aetius ' prestige.

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 an account by Plutarch, the Ionian poet once dismissed the Thessalians as " too ignorant " to be beguiled by poetry.

" According to an anecdote recorded on a papyrus, dating to around 250 BC, Hieron once asked the poet if everything grows old: " Yes ," Simonides answered, " all except money-making ; and kind deeds age most quickly of all.

According to the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about transformations in his Metamorphoses, Iphis ( or Iphys ) was the daughter of Telethusa and Ligdus in Crete.

According to the accounts given by Pindar and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain in a bath by his wife alone, a blanket of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance.

According to Pindar, the decision was made by secret ballot among the Acheans.

According to Pindar, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe ( Laodamia ) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.

According to a scholiast on Pindar, he once acted as peace-maker between Hieron and another Sicilian tyrant, Theron of Acragas, thus ending a war between them.

According to Pindar ( Pythia, xi.

According to Pindar, Psamathe gave birth to Phocus on the seashore.

According to ancient sources such as Plutarch and Pausanias, she came from Tanagra in Boeotia, where she was a teacher and rival to the better-known Theban poet Pindar.

According to the Bibliotheca, this was an accident — Tlepolemus was beating a servant when Licymnius ran between the two, suffering a fatal blow —, but Pindar states that that the death was intentional and motivated by anger.

According to Pausanias ( 9. 16. 1 ), Calamis produced a statue of Zeus Ammon for Pindar, and mentions a Hermes Criophorus for Tanagra ( 9. 22. 1 ), which was later depicted on Roman coins of the city.

According to a myth thought to be of ancient origins, Iolaus was Heracles ' charioteer and squire.

" According to the Greek myth, Heracles found curative herbs here to heal his wounds.

According to other sources, Heracles founded the city.

According to Pseudo-Apollodorus, Heracles sneaked up on Alcyoneus and wounded him, although the giant did not die until Heracles dragged him out of his homeland, Pallene.

According to John Tzetzes, she accompanied Heracles on this expedition.

According to Seneca, Deianira is concerned if the captive Iole that Heracles took as his concubine will give brothers to her sons.

According to Diodorus Siculus, Iolaus was sent by Heracles in Sardinia together with nine of the sons that he had fifty daughters of Thespius ( the Tespiadi ), to colonize the island, giving rise to the people of Iolaensi.

According to some versions, Heracles drove his remaining cattle past a cave, where Cacus had hidden the stolen animals, and they began calling out to each other.

According to Euripides, Heracles shot Cycnus with his arrows, and this took place in Amphanae near the river Anaurus.

According to Diodorus the mythical singer Linus took three pupils: Heracles, Thamyris, and Orpheus, which neatly settles Thamyris's legendary chronology.

According to Pausanias, Amarynceus had been of great service to Augeas against Heracles, in return for which Augeas shared his throne with him.

According to one story, found in the Iliad, he was accidentally killed in his old age by Heracles ' son Tlepolemus, when the latter was beating his servant with a stick and Licymnius ran in between ( or else Tlepolemus and Licymnius had a quarrel over a certain matter ).

According to legend they were defeated by Heracles or the Dioscuri, who killed their king, Mygdon or Amycus.

According to Pausanias it was introduced by Heracles as a prize for the winner of the running race to honour Zeus.

According to one account, the city of Thebe was founded by the hero Heracles after his sack of Troy during the reign of King Laomedon and named after his birthplace, Thebes in Boeotia.

According to Hyginus, he was killed by Aeetes, if indeed the text is not corrupt ; according to Diodorus Siculus, however, he was killed by Heracles during the latter's war against Eurytus.

According to some versions, Heracles drove his remaining cattle past a cave, where Cacus had hidden the stolen animals, and they began calling out to each other.

According to Hesiod, she was the personification of misery and sadness, and as such she was represented on the shield of Heracles: pale, emaciated, and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust.

According to Athenaeus, Bolbe was the mother of Olynthus by Heracles.

According to an anonymous essay on tragedy, Pherecrates wrote 18 plays, suggesting that one or more of the 19 surviving titles must be eliminated somehow ( i. e. by assigning the play to another author who wrote a comedy by the same name, and assuming an ancient scholarly error, or by identifying e. g. The Human Heracles and The Fake Heracles as a single play with multiple titles ).