According to Greek tradition, he helped Cretan or Arcadian colonists found the city of Troy.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to tradition, Paul ordained Titus bishop of Gortyn in Crete.

According to the Jain tradition either lacto vegetarianism or veganism is mandatory.

Meteorologists ( and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere ) use a definition based on months, with autumn being September, October and November in the northern hemisphere, According to United States tradition, autumn runs from the day after Labor Day ( i. e. the Tuesday following the first Monday of September ) through Thanksgiving ( i. e. the fourth Thursday in November ), after which the holiday season that demarcates the unofficial beginning of winter begins.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

According to Jewish tradition the author was Samuel himself, but this idea is no longer regarded as tenable.

According to early tradition, this book was composed near the end of Domitian's reign, around the year 95 AD.

According to Jewish tradition the author of Kings was Jeremiah, whose life overlapped the fall of Jerusalem in 586 BCE.

According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux.

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 tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

According to tradition, three generations before Confucius ' time, his ancestors had migrated from the Song state to the Lu state.

According to tradition, a Praetorian named Gratus found him hiding behind a curtain and suddenly declared him princeps.

According to one such tradition, she is the personification of the Earth itself ; according to another, its actual mother, being Prithvi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth.

According to tradition, the Colonna are a branch of the Counts of Tusculum — by Peter ( 1099 – 1151 ) son of Gregory III, called Peter " de Columna " from his property, the Columna Castle, in Colonna, Alban Hills.

According to Epiphanius Scholasticus, he was born in Athens, but there is also a tradition of an Alexandrian birth.

According to a tradition preserved in Eastern Christian folklore, Golgotha was the summit of the cosmic mountain at the center of the world and the location where Adam had been both created and buried.

According to this tradition, when Christ is crucified, his blood falls on Adam's skull, buried at the foot of the cross, and redeems him.

According to Christian tradition, Christ descended to hell after his death, in order to free the souls there ; this event is known as the harrowing of hell.

According to tradition, bits of hay are spread beneath the tablecloth as a reminder that Christ was born in a manger.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

According to the township web page, Moscow was first called " Little Kalamazoo ," and that the name Moscow was chosen by drawing the name out of a hat.

According to local tradition, the name resulted from a lottery: the townsfolk were invited to put a proposed name into a hat, and " La Plata " was the one drawn ; it had been Dr. Moore's choice, under the mistaken impression that it was French for " the silver river.

According to McAnally, " He is about three feet high, and is dressed in a little red jacket or roundabout, with red breeches buckled at the knee, gray or black stockings, and a hat, cocked in the style of a century ago, over a little, old, withered face.

According to Shrimpton, who claimed that the brevity of the skirt was due mainly to Rolfe's having insufficient material, the ensuing controversy was as much as anything to do with her having dispensed with a hat and gloves, seen as the essential accessories in such conservative society.

According to the testimony of his son Jeremy, taken around 1699 was received in audience by " his brother king ," Charles II and was given a " lac'd hat " and a commission " to kindly use and relieve such straggling Englishment as should chance to come that way.

According to Kant's idealism, " hat is proved is not, as in spiritualism, the knower's independence of matter, but the dependence of all matter on the knower.

According to Tschudi's version of the events ( recorded in the 16th century ) Gessler raised a pole in the village's central square, hung his hat on top of it, and demanded that all the townsfolk bow before the hat.

According to Shaw: " hat he craved most was to escape the fetters of his Dead Boy image and win respect as a singer of contemporary pop rock.

According to legend, Kaleta entered Taft's shop to purchase a new hat but did not have enough money.

According to legend the boto always wears a hat to disguise the breathing hole at the top of its head.

According to legend, Stetson invented the hat while on a hunting trip while showing his companions how he could make cloth out of fur without tanning.

According to Win Blevins ' Dictionary of the American West ( p388 ), the term " ten-gallon " has nothing to do with the hat's liquid capacity, but derives from the Spanish word galón ( braid ), ten indicating the number of braids used as a hat band.

According to another tradition, slaves who had just been freed might go to the shrine at Terracina and receive upon their shaved heads the pileus, a hat that symbolized their liberty.

According to the story, when Tom looked down into the hole, the wind was blowing out so hard that it blew his hat off of his head.

According to Reynolds and Rand, " The term ten-gallon did not originally refer to the holding capacity of the hat, but to the width of a Mexican sombrero hatband, and is more closely related to this unit of measurement by the Spanish than to the water-holding capacity of a Stetson .”

Fans at Shea Stadium have routinely greeted Wright's performances with chants of " M-V-P, M-V-P ." According to then teammate Tom Glavine, " He's probably been our most clutch hitter over the first half of the season and he's certainly thrown his hat into the MVP talks.

According to the Chronicon Helveticum by Aegidius Tschudi ( 1505 – 1572 ), in 1307 Gessler raised a pole in the market square of Altdorf, placed his hat atop it, and ordered all the townsfolk to bow before it.

According to a New York Times article from January 18, 1914, he was ' believed by police to have committed suicide by jumping from a pier ' in Santa Barbara, and his hat had been found in the water.

According to contemporary Ottoman chronicles and local legends, Karposh was known as the " King of Kumanovo ", a title conferred upon him by Emperor Leopold I who sent him a busby ( a tall fur hat worn by hussars and guardsmen ) as a gift and a sign of recognition.