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 Festus, Marcius had the surname of Ancus from his crooked arm.

According to genealogist Edward MacLysaght the surname Lundy is from Norman de la Lounde, a name recorded in medieval documents in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny in Ireland.

According to the Wizard comic his surname was Brown.

) According to Suetonius, the Octavian family held some renown there, and Gaius Octavius ( father of the future Caesar Augustus ) defeated a Spartacist army near there ; as a result, the future emperor was granted the surname Thurinus shortly after birth.

According to George Fraser Black, in southern Argyllshire the surname is an Anglicised form of the surnames MacLucas, MacLugash ( which are derived from the Gaelic Mac Lùcais ).

According to Joe Adamson's biography, The Walter Lantz Story, Lantz's father was given his new surname by an immigration official who Anglicized it.

According to the 2012 edition of the Random House Dictionary, cognomen can mean " a surname " or " any name, especially a nickname ".

" According to Seneca, he obtained the surname from his attention to naval affairs.

According to the 1990 United States Census, Clark was the twenty-first most frequently encountered surname, accounting for 0. 23 % of the population.

According to Lê Trung Hoa, a Vietnamese scholar, approximately 5. 1 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname.

According to Till Lindemann, the song was originally written as an entrance song for the boxer Vitali Klitschko, whose surname was also the working title of the song.

According to Statistics Norway 100 persons have Galtung as their surname as of 2009.

According to the will of the Duke of Bridgewater, the Egerton estates passed on the death of the first Duke of Sutherland to his third son Lord Francis Leveson-Gower, who changed his surname to Egerton by Royal license.

According to prominent historian R. C. Majumdar, the surname Gupta was adopted by several different communities in northern and eastern India at different times.

According to the Song dynasty history book Lushi ( 路史 ), Chi You's surname was Jiang ( 姜 ), and he was a descendant of Yandi.

According to this patent Lady Rothes was succeeded by her eldest son John, the ninth Earl ( who assumed the surname of Leslie ; see the Earl of Rothes for further history of this branch of the family ).

According to Anand himself, Anand inherited his Chinese heritage from his maternal grandmother, whose surname was Lau ().

According to others, the name Keita is a clan name rather than a surname.

According to the Durnings, the surname Akin can also be an Anglicisation of the Irish name Ó hÓgáin ( O ' Eakin ).

According to Black, the first recorded appearance of the Scottish surname Aiken ( and its variations: Aitken, Aitkin, Aitkins, Atkin, Atkins ) occurs in the year 1405, in the court records of a Scottish sea merchant named " John of Akyne ", who sought restitution for having been illegally detained for eight weeks by " Laurence Tuttebury of Hulle ".

According to a study published in 2006, it is the 76th most common Chinese surname.

According to one source the first Indian Muslims to settle here were several brothers with the surname Rawat, who came from Nasirpoor Bhatti, a place near Navsari.

According to this perspective, Ştefan Caragiali was a native of Kefalonia, and his original surname, Karaialis, was changed on Prince Caragea's request.

According to his autobiography he states that his surname is Armenian ( Torossian ), while his maternal grandmother was German and his maternal grandfather was of mixed Georgian and Armenian descent.