It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

4th c .), a famed dialectician of the Gupta Empire, contextualizes the prestige of dialectic and cut-throat debate in classical India and makes references to the possibly apocryphal story of the banishment of Moheyan post-debate with Kamalaśīla ( fl.

Karl Marx analysed Crusoe in his classic work Das Kapital, mocking the heavy use in classical economics of the fictional story.

The most important sources for French tragic theatre in the Renaissance were the example of Seneca and the precepts of Horace and Aristotle ( and contemporary commentaries by Julius Caesar Scaliger and Lodovico Castelvetro ), although plots were taken from classical authors such as Plutarch, Suetonius, etc., from the Bible, from contemporary events and from short story collections ( Italian, French and Spanish ).

Well before Virgil, the story is also alluded to in Greek classical literature.

The idea of selling one's soul for instrumental skills pre-dates the American South as several virtuoso classical musicians such as Paganini had stories told about selling their soul for music prowess ( and that story may reference back to medieval troubadour doing something similar ).

) A classical love story, filmed in a highly naturalistic, almost documentary style, it is set in the small and boring Swedish town of Åmål, and follows two young girls who awkwardly fall in love.

Goethe had been inspired by the story of Philinnion by Phlegon of Tralles, a tale from classical Greece.

However, it is clear that the Greeks added much to the Adonis-Myrrha story, before it was first recorded by classical scholars.

James presents their relationship with sympathy and insight, and the story reaches what some have considered the status of classical tragedy.

Karl Otfried Müller collected and evaluated the various fragments of the story from classical authors.

This story is not part of classical Greek mythology.

A rock opera tells a coherent story, and may involve songs performed as if sung by separate characters in a drama, as in classical opera.

The classical chant Jolly-Bob från Aberdeen by the Swedish singer Lasse Dahlquist, tells the story about a young sailorman from Aberdeen town who is getting married with a damsel from Golders Green.

That death, meanwhile, has become famous for its drama, and the story of Theramenes ' final moments has been repeated over and over throughout classical historiography.

Snow's novelistic world resembles the " classical " detective story, which needs to exclude as many variables as possible from the problem ( a passing stranger cannot be the murderer-it has to be one of the houseguests ).

Besides altarpieces and portraits he painted pictures that told no story, whether biblical or classical, or if they professed to tell a story, neglected the action and simply embodied in form and color moods of lyrical or romantic feeling, much as a musician might embody them in sounds.

I started using the zoom, I used new camera movements, new frames which were not reverential, but almost documentary an almost classical severity with the moments that are almost Godardian, for example in the two trials of Christ shot like " cinema verite "... The Point is that ... I, a non-believer, was telling the story through the eyesof a believer.

" They point out that Lucian is the only classical source to which all the elements existed of the story known in modern culture as the " Marathon story of Phillipedes ": a messenger running from the fields of Marathon to announce victory, then dying on completion of his mission.

The film retells the story of Helen of Troy, parodying the plot-line of historical epics of the era by transforming the classical characters into everyday people with modern problems.

In addition, he suggests the mythical elements of the tale were based on the fictional adventures of Sun Wukong from the classical novel Journey to the West.

Deciding to experiment after having exhausted the folksinger-with-guitar format, Baez turned to Peter Schickele, a classical music composer, who provided classical orchestration for her next three albums: Noël ( 1966 ), Joan ( 1967 ) and Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time ( 1968 ).

Today, Decca is a leading label for both classical music and Broadway scores although it is branching out into pop music from established recording stars: its most recent hit was Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA ( 2007 ) by Boyz II Men, which reached No. 27 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart.

He became famous for his seventeen year overland journey to India, which is recorded in detail in the classic Chinese text Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, which in turn provided the inspiration for the classical novel Journey to the West, written by Wu Cheng ' en during the Ming Dynasty, around nine centuries after Xuanzang's death.

Sun Wukong (), also known as the Monkey King, is a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West () written by Wu Cheng ' en.

Xuanzang () is a central character in the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West.

They appear in the classical novels Fengshen Bang and Journey to the West.

His image is similar to that of the fictional character Tang Sanzang in the classical novel Journey to the West, so observers sometimes mistake Ksitigarbha for the latter.

At the time when Wu lived, there was a trend in Chinese literary circles to imitate the classical literature of the Qin, Han, and Tang dynasties, written in Classical Chinese ; late in life, however, Wu went against this trend by apparently writing the novel, Journey to the West in the vernacular tongue.

Wu's poetry focused on the expression of emotions, and for this reason his work has been compared to that of Li Bai, although even the poems that he published with his name attached still were not quite modeled on the classical styles ( although they were not as " vulgar " as Journey to the West ).

In addition, many classical Chinese novels and stories, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Journey to the West were adapted very early into dramatic pieces.

Subhūti appears as a character in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, as the teacher of the Monkey King Sun Wukong.

Milieus encountered in the second series include the worlds of Irish myth and the Orlando Furioso ( again ) in " Professor Harold and the Trustees ," L. Ron Hubbard's setting from The Case of the Friendly Corpse and L. Frank Baum's land of Oz in " Sir Harold and the Gnome King ," the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West in " Sir Harold and the Monkey King ," the romantic fantasies of Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote ( with the unique twist of its being Quixote's version of reality rather than Cervantes ') in " Knight and the Enemy ," Virgil's Graeco-Roman epic the Aeneid in " Arms and the Enchanter ," the old Russian Tale of Igor's Campaign in " Enchanter Kiev ," Bhavabhuti's Baital Pachisi ( or " Vikram and the Vampire "), a proto-Arabian Nights collection of Indian tales, in " Sir Harold and the Hindu King ," Edgar Rice Burroughs ' Barsoom in " Sir Harold of Zodanga ," and William Shakespeare's The Tempest in " Harold Shakespeare.

* Sun Wukong, a main character in the classical Chinese epic novel Journey to the West

Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classical novel of the same title.

Unlike prior travel accounts which stressed classical learning and objective non-personal points of view, A Sentimental Journey emphasized the subjective discussions of personal taste and sentiments, of manners and morals over classical learning.

A Journey Home includes classical Irish songs such as " The Cliffs Of Dooneen ", " Isle of Innisfree " ( the theme of the film, The Quiet Man, written by Dick Farrelly ), and " Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears ".

It wasn't until his brilliant portrayal of the Monkey King character in the 1996 TVB adaptation of the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West that his popularity began to skyrocket.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

Columns, or at least large structural exterior ones, became much less significant in the architecture of the Middle Ages, and the classical forms were abandoned in both Byzantine architecture and the Romanesque and Gothic architecture or Europe in favour of more flexible forms, with capitals often using various types of foliage decoration, and in the West scenes with figures carved in relief.

When, in 1770, Benjamin West proposed to paint " The Death of General Wolfe " in contemporary dress, he was firmly instructed to use classical costume by many people.

In the West, learning by ear is associated with traditional and folk music, but many classical music forms throughout the world lack notation, and have therefore been passed from generation to generation by ear.

Allegorical stories are central to the poetic diction of many cultures, and were prominent in the West during classical times, the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

That work, as well as The Discourses, a rigorous analysis of the classical period, did much to influence modern political thought in the West.

The myth of Prometheus has been a favorite theme of Western art and literature in the classical tradition, and occasionally in works produced outside the West.

Sparta was the subject of fascination in its own day, as well as in the West following the revival of classical learning.

In the later classical tradition of the West, Venus becomes one of the most widely referenced deities of Greco-Roman mythology as the embodiment of love and sexuality.

This may have resulted in a backlash amongst conservative tango aficionados in Argentina, but in the rest of the West it was the key to his extremely sympathetic reception among classical and jazz musicians, both seeing some of the best aspects of their musical practices reflected in his work.

* Bernard S. Bachrach, A History of the Alans in the West, from their first appearance in the sources of classical antiquity through the early Middle Ages, University of Minnesota Press, 1973 ISBN 0-8166-0678-1

He initially came to the West as a Northern Indian classical musician, having received the honorific " Tansen " from the Nizam of Hyderabad, but he soon turned to the introduction and transmission of Sufi thought and practice.

Toward the end of the classical era, larger regional kingdoms had formed in West Africa, one of which was the Kingdom of Ghana, north of what is today the nation of Ghana.

In 1967 classical strings-focused Just Music had been formed by Alfred Harth and been recorded on ECM ( 1002 ) in 1969 in West Germany.

( The West Side Story woodwind section would require twelve " classical " players instead of five " reed " players.

While the common hippopotamus was known to Europeans since classical antiquity, the pygmy hippopotamus was unknown outside of its range in West Africa until the 19th century.

Thus West Greek is the most accurate name for the classical dialects.

This was part of Nash's development of planning, this found it is most extreme example when he set out Park Village East and Park Village West ( 1823 – 34 ) to the north-east of Regent's Park, here a mixture of detached villas, semi-detached houses, both symmetrical and assymmetrical in their design are set out in private gardens railed off from the street, the roads loop and the buildings are both classical and gothic in style.

Northern Europe embraced classical Mediterranean Roman art forms for the first time, setting the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and eventually Gothic art in the West.

German forces were divided into three battle groups, Centre, West and East, each with a special code name following the classical theme established by Mercury.

He had his initial success as a stage actor in classical roles, first winning stardom during a successful two seasons at the Old Vic Theatre from 1929 to 1931 where his performances as Richard II and Hamlet were particularly acclaimed, the latter being the first Old Vic production to be transferred to the West End for a run.