In Metamorphoses, an aging Alcmene recounted the story of the birth of Heracles to Iole.

According to the story recounted by Hermippus, he arrived at the house of Solon and said, " I have traveled here from afar to make you my friend.

One memorable story, as recounted to Johnny Carson, was about his meeting with then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

A story recounted in later sources holds that they refrained from destroying the church on seeing the magi depicted in Persian clothing in a mosaic.

Their story was later recounted in the books Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors and Miracle in the Andes as well as the film Alive, by Frank Marshall, and the documentaries Alive: 20 Years Later ( 1993 ) and Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains ( 2008 ).

The Arab tribes, of the time, may have begun to exalt Muhammad above Jonah because of the recent revelation Muhammad received, which recounted the story of Jonah's fleeing from his mission.

As recounted in the short story " The Adventurous Exploit of the Cave of Ali Baba ", in December 1927 Wimsey faked his own death, supposedly while hunting big game in Tanganyika, in order to penetrate and break up a particularly dangerous and well-organised criminal gang.

The story has been recounted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Legend of Good Women, John Gower's Confessio Amantis ( Book VII ), and John Lydgate's Fall of Princes.

" Bradbury recounted when he came into his own as a writer, the afternoon he wrote a short story about his first encounter with death.

A story is recounted in the Florilegium ( 3. 29. 58 ) of Stobaeus:

* In 1978, Malcolm Clarke recounted Biko's story in a documentary called, The Life and Death of Steve Biko.

According to sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, who later recounted the story, Laboulaye's comment was not intended as a proposal, but it inspired Bartholdi.

Aragonés has recounted the story with the punchline " I killed Marty Feldman ".

In New York City, local television journalist Gabe Pressman has recounted the story each Christmas for the past thirty years.

The supposed " story " behind Iron Chef is recounted at the beginning of every episode.

DiVincenzo claimed to have recounted his story to screenwriter Budd Schulberg during a month-long session of waterfront barroom meetings.

Aragonés has recounted the story with the punchline, " I killed Marty Feldman ".

In the eschatological myth which closes the Republic he tells the story how Er, the son of Armenius, miraculously returned to life on the twelfth day after death and recounted the secrets of the other world.

In an interview republished in October 2004, he recounted to New Internationalist magazine the story of his name:

In it he recounted the story of the experiment from the Varo annotation.

This contains Nican mopohua (" Here it is recounted "), a tract about the Virgin which contains the story of the apparition and the supernatural origin of the image, plus two other sections, Nican motecpana (" Here is an ordered account "), describing fourteen miracles connected with Our Lady of Guadalupe, and Nican tlantica (" Here ends "), an account of the Virgin in New Spain.

The story of their origins and their connection with Tết is often recounted to children while cooking them overnight.

The story of Valentinian and Aëtius was recounted in the pages of Hal Foster's Prince Valiant.

Slaughter recounted his life story for a Works Progress Administration interviewer in 1936.

The top story contains more than thirty alcoves separated from each other by spandrels of blue and yellow tile.

The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Trevelyan was at least in part attracted to the period by an almost unconscious desire to take up the story where Macaulay's History Of England had broken off.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.

You then descended one story, glommed a television set from the music room -- the only constructive feature of your visit, by the way -- and, returning to the ground floor, entered the master bedroom.

aside from her specifically regional accent, she reveals by the use of the triad, `` irritable, tense, depressed '', a certain pedantic itemization that indicates she has some familiarity with literary or scientific language ( i.e., she must have had at least a high-school education ), and she is telling a story she has mentally rehearsed some time before.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

A similar story is mentioned by Plutarch.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

As said by the officer in the story, " In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).