Despite the paucity of surviving text, the Myrmidons has achieved some measure of fame, because of Aristophanes ' satire of it at Frogs 911 – 13 in which Euripedes mocks Aeschylus ' stagecraft:

Despite the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100, 000 characters and contain almost any meaning.

Despite the extent of the massacre and publicity surrounding the event-anecdotes tell of piles of bodies in the street, as well as bodies being found downriver for weeks afterwards-the paucity of objective press coverage at the time of the massacre was likely due to two factors: successful censorship of the media by several levels of the government, and biased reporting by major media outlets in countries that were supportive of the French government's policy regarding Algeria.

Despite their paucity of recorded material, The Open Mind have proven to be influential in the psychedelic rock genre.

Despite the paucity of direct evidence, Prometheus ' foreshadowing of future events in the trilogy's first play suggests that the final play concerned itself with Prometheus ' knowledge of a secret that could potentially lead to Zeus's downfall, and how the revelation of this secret leads to reconciliation between the Titan and Olympian.

Despite the paucity of direct evidence, Prometheus ' foreshadowing of future events in the trilogy's first play suggests that the final play concerned itself with Prometheus ' knowledge of a secret that could potentially lead to Zeus ' downfall, and how the revelation of this secret leads to reconciliation between the Titan and Olympian.

Despite this, Babbage's work fell into historical obscurity and the Analytical Engine was unknown to builders of electro-mechanical and electronic computing machines in the 1930s and 1940s when they began their work, resulting in the need to re-invent many of the architectural innovations Babbage had proposed.

Despite the historical significance of Lincoln's speech, modern scholars disagree as to its exact wording, and contemporary transcriptions published in newspaper accounts of the event and even handwritten copies by Lincoln himself differ in their wording, punctuation, and structure.

Despite this fancifulness, however, Ivanhoe does make some prescient historical points.

Despite Kemp's voice on minority issues, Colin Powell's support and polls that showed about 30 % of blacks identified themselves as conservatives on issues such as school prayer, school vouchers and criminal justice, the Republicans were unable to improve upon historical support levels from African-American voters.

Despite the historical meekness of the presidency, however, it has been at the centre of some high-profile controversies.

Despite these genre blending elements, wuxia is primarily a historical genre of fiction.

Despite many popular folktales, historical accounts of the ninja are scarce.

Despite the historical source material, Welsh has set the story in the familiar confines of present day Edinburgh, with Burke and Hare depicted as brothers who steal human organs to meet the demands of the global transplant market.

Despite its persistence, however, it is not known whether the account is historical or fabricated.

Despite the confusion of dates the Roman Conquest is the first of 103 historical events in the book characterised as a Good Thing, " since the Britons were only natives at that time ".

Despite crediting the Chicago Historical Society for assistance with historical research, much of the film is fictionalized.

Despite similarities, most Tolkien ' authorities ' are wary of drawing analogies between his fictional works and the historical narratives they so strongly resemble.

Despite popular claims that LeMay advanced the notion of preventive nuclear war, the historical record indicates LeMay actually advocated justified preemptive nuclear war.

Despite this, the silent final S has never been universal, and other ethnic and historical influences tend to argue over it.

Despite this, Benabarre continues to be a significant historical and cultural center of attraction.

Despite this link, and the historical ties, there is no University of Paris system that binds the universities at an academic level.

Despite this emphasis on the differences between standard Slovene and the dialects of the Slavia Italiana, the very same policies of Italianization that were first applied to the neighboring Julian March were extended to the Slavia, thus paradoxically bringing the local populations, which diverged in their historical experiences, closer together.

Despite earlier strong feelings against the BBC, he lectured for a BBC historical series in 1961 and made more series for it in 1963, 1976, 1977 and 1978.

Despite modern man's claims to be nonreligious, he ultimately cannot find value in the linear progression of historical events ; even modern man feels the " Terror of history ": " Here too [...] there is always the struggle against Time, the hope to be freed from the weight of ' dead Time ,' of the Time that crushes and kills.

Despite the liberties Chariton took with historical fact, he clearly aimed to place his story in a period well before his own lifetime.

Despite Berg's approach, most scholars do not accept this view, as the historical record corresponds with Chinese materials that could not have had similar intention.

Despite the use of magic or other fantastic elements such as dragons, the world is normally presented as one that would function normally, one in which people could actually live, making economic, historical, and ecological sense.

Despite criticisms that Gibson deliberately and severely departed from historical accounts of first century Judea and Biblical accounts of Christ's crucifixion, some scholars defend the film as not meaning to be historically accurate.

Despite being the capital, the city is not the state ’ s main tourist attraction, eclipsed by Manzanillo and Comala, as it lacks major cultural and historical sites.

Despite this and other hearsay evidence, there were no actual facts to go upon.

Despite the study of model plants and increasing use of DNA evidence, there is ongoing work and discussion among taxonomists about how best to classify plants into various taxa.

Despite Sihanouk's allegations, there is no evidence that this coup was planned by the United States Central Intelligence Agency.

Despite the difficult relations between the local Cubans and the new Europeans, some cooperation was in evidence.

Despite this comparison, a fragment of a non-Christian parchment Codex of Demosthenes, De Falsa Legatione from Oxyrhynchus in Egypt demonstrates that the surviving evidence is insufficient to conclude whether Christians played a major, if not central, role in the development of early codices, or if they simply adopted the format to distinguish themselves from Jews.

Despite rumors to the contrary, there is no scientific evidence linking cycling with testicular cancer.

Despite the increasing evidence of a military build-up on Cuba, no U-2 flights were made over Cuba from September 5 until October 14.

Despite this opinion among researchers, evidence has accumulated that supports the existence of complex biological effects of weaker non-thermal electromagnetic fields, ( including weak ELF magnetic fields, although the latter does not strictly qualify as EM radiation < ref >), and modulated RF and microwave fields.

Despite the deep erosion of the valleys, the surrounding uplands show little evidence of glaciation, suggesting that the ice was thin, or at least unable to cause much erosion at these higher altitudes.

Despite this, " there is ample evidence that the medieval clergy were the main practitioners of magic and therefore the owners, transcribers, and circulators of grimoires " while several grimoires were actually attributed to various Popes.

Despite numerous similarities in phrasing and factual errors, the court found the evidence inadequate and dismissed the case.

Despite these high-profile reports from Arkansas and Florida and sporadic reports elsewhere in the historic range of the species since the 1940s, there is no conclusive evidence for the continued existence of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker ; i. e., there are no unambiguous photographs, videos, specimens or DNA samples from feathers or feces of the Ivory-billed.

Despite some claims that the word kiosk originally came from the Swahili language, all evidence points to a Middle Persian origin.

Despite the clear evidence that all the ancient ruins in Maldives are Buddhist, Heyerdahl claimed that early " sun-worshiping seafarers ", called the " Redin ", first settled on the islands.

Despite the subjects ' own expectations of consensus, interpretations of the commandments showed wide ranges of variation, with little evidence of consensus.

Despite the great number of geometric microliths that have been found in Western Europe, few examples show any clear evidence of their use, and all the examples are from the Mesolithic or Neolithic periods.

Despite Strabo's conviction of a lie, the perimeter said to have been given by Pytheas is not evidence of it.

Despite Macdonald's claims that he was innocent, evidence came to light showing receipts of money from Allan to Macdonald and some of his political colleagues.

Despite the lack of observational evidence for proton decay, some grand unification theories, such as the Georgi – Glashow model, require it.

Despite these data and later evidence that proteolytically digested proteins yielded only oligopeptides, the idea that proteins were linear, unbranched polymers of amino acids was not accepted immediately.

Despite some valid criticisms of the early experiments, there has been no evidence of fraud.

Despite the proviso that the Court was for disputes " which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy ", the Court never required evidence that diplomatic discussions had been attempted before bringing the case.

Despite this association with the remains of a large carnivorous dinosaur, the vertebra shows no evidence that it was chewed on by the dinosaur.

Despite some similarities between these two causes, the creation science movement represented a shift from overtly religious to covertly religious objections to evolutionary theory — raising what it claimed to be scientific evidence in support of a literal interpretation of the Bible.

Despite rumours of devil worship and other dark arts being practised during the meetings, there is no evidence to prove this.