He is well known as the lover of Aphrodite, the goddess of love who was married to Hephaestus, god of craftsmanship, but the most famous story involving the couple shows them exposed to ridicule through the wronged husband's clever device.

Since King Valdemar II of Denmark was married to the Portuguese princess, Berengária of Portugal, it is not unthinkable that the origin of the story, if not the flag, was the Spanish tale or a similar tale, which again might have been inspired by an even older legend.

In Aeschylus's Oresteia, the story is begun with Agamemnon's return home, to find that his wife, Clytemnestra, had married her lover, Aegisthus.

The completion of the story seemed also to signal an end to his problems: he was no longer troubled by nightmares, divorced Germaine in 1977 ( they had separated in 1960 ), and finally married Fanny Vlamynck on 20 May of the same year.

Admiring of Radiguet's great literary talent, Cocteau promoted his friend's works in his artistic circle and arranged for the publication by Grasset of Le Diable au corps ( a largely autobiographical story of an adulterous relationship between a married woman and a younger man ), exerting his influence to have the novel awarded the " Nouveau Monde " literary prize.

The symbol has also been attributed to the story of Nicholas giving a poor man's three daughters each a bag of gold so they could get married.

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In one story, " The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton ," Holmes is engaged to be married, but only to gain information for his case.

Of The Saint's companions, only Norman Kent was killed during an adventure ( he sacrifices himself to save Templar in the novel The Last Hero ); the other males are presumed to have settled down and married ( two to former female criminals: Dicky Tremayne to " Straight Audrey " Perowne and Peter Quentin to Kathleen " The Mug " Allfield ; Archie Sheridan is mentioned to have married in " The Lawless Lady " in Enter the Saint, presumably to Lilla McAndrew after the events of the story " The Wonderful War " in Featuring the Saint ).

His description of the story of the Virgin Birth demystifies Biblical language and suggests that Mary was just another unfortunate fallen woman: it is " an account of a young woman engaged to be married, and while under this engagement she is, to speak plain language, debauched by a ghost ".

The protagonists of most wuxia stories usually have beautiful maidens to accompany them on their adventures and the story typically concludes like a fairy tale, in which the protagonist and his lover are married and live happily ever after.

" The story put out about the wedding veil was that decorous brides were naturally too timid to show their faces in public until they were married.

; " The Last Night of the World ": In this story, a married couple awakens to the knowledge that the world is going to end that very evening.

The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias ( 1545 – 1568 ), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551-1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois.

The story of her life is continued on the Hargs bro runic inscriptions, where we learn that Estrid had married a man named Ingvar, and this Ingvar had a son prior to marrying Estrid whose name was Ragnvald.

" The Gift of the Magi " is a short story written by O. Henry ( a pen name for William Sydney Porter ), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money.

Despite the divorce story, Ní Mháille and Bourke appear as mentioned as husband and wife in English documents of the period, so appeared to remain married, at least allied, as far as the English were concerned.

She seems to have pre-deceased her husband, after bearing him a son, David ap Gwion, and therefore there can be no truth in the story that she married into the Corbet family of Caus Castle ( near Westbury, Shropshire ) and later, Moreton Corbet Castle.

The four books tell the story of Llewellyn Prince of Wales, who married Simon's daughter Eleanor, and his three brothers.

The story ends with Garion reading a letter from Zakath, showing that Zakath has now married Cyradis and is witness to the social changes wrought by Eriond, while Garion, Belgarath, and Durnik are in the Vale of Aldur with Polgara as she gives birth to twins.

Dio Chrysostom gives a completely different account of the story, questioning Homer's credibility: after Agamemnon had married Helen's sister, Klytaemnestra, Tyndareus sought Helen's hand for Menelaus on account of political reasons.

One story tells of the wrestler saving the philosopher's life when a roof was about to collapse upon him and another that Milo may have married the philosopher's daughter Myia.

The pair, who were married to each other, got their inspiration for the story from the real life case of William and Dorothy Whitney, who were married lawyers who ended up divorcing and marrying their respective clients in a case.

Ivanhoe is the story of one of the remaining Saxon noble families at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman.

What is common throughout all the editions of the Nights is the initial frame story of the ruler Shahryār ( from, meaning " king " or " sovereign ") and his wife Scheherazade ( from, possibly meaning " of noble lineage ") and the framing device incorporated throughout the tales themselves.

Three days later Asimov began writing " my own story of a sympathetic and noble robot ", his 14th story.

* Door – A young woman from London Below, the daughter of a noble family who were all murdered shortly before the beginning of the story.

The noble knight tells a noble story, the boring character tells a very dull tale and the rude miller tells a smutty tale.

This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble character.

The 33rd of these stories is the story of Mariotto and Ganozza, which was apparently adapted by Luigi da Porto ( 1485 – 1529 ) first as Giulietta e Romeo and later as Historia novellamente ritrovata di due nobili amanti (" Newly retrieved story of two noble lovers ").

The general outline of the story is the decline of the Compson family, a once noble Southern family descended from U. S. Civil War hero General Compson.

* is the noble and kind Prince and protagonist of Drosselmeyer's story " The Prince and the Raven ".

Denis Diderot's book Supplément au voyage de Bougainville retells the story of Bougainville's landing on Tahiti, narrated by an anonymous reader to one of his friends ; this fictional approach to Bougainville's expedition, along with Diderot's description of the Tahitians as noble savages, was meant to criticise Western ways of living and thinking.

In this story he assumes the role of " Clen of Clen-Gar ," who resembles actor Burt Lancaster, and is a noble of the land called the " Dream Marches ", part of a greater land called " Heaven ".

It is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest and motivations — noble or selfish — to honor her wish to be buried in the town of Jefferson.

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

Although many cites state that the film was a BlockbusterRangeela was also praised by the critics for its noble theme and entertaining story.

The story-teller is Ulysses Paxton, protagonist of the previous novel, The Master Mind of Mars, but this story is not about him ; rather, it is the tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar ( a low-ranking officer ) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble.

* In Kim Newman's Richard Jeperson short story " Soho Golem ", an occultist and priest of Nyarlathotep holds the noble title " Lord Leaves of Leng ".

Herodotus's story of Cyrus's early life belongs to a genre of legends in which abandoned children of noble birth, such as Oedipus and Romulus and Remus, return to claim their royal positions.

The story in this small painting ( egg tempera on wood ) is probably only a pretext for showing " noble " animals ( horses, hunting dogs, stag, bear ...) and the most noble creature of all: the hunting courtier.

The story follows a man of " a noble descent " who calls himself William Wilson because, although denouncing his profligate past, he does not accept blamefor his actions, saying that " man was never thus [...] tempted before ".

The story revolves around a boy born to an English woman of noble birth and a Japanese zoologist.