* " All My Love " is a song by Led Zeppelin which mentions Ariadne under the French-derived name Arianne, with references to the labyrinth story.

The story that she was poisoned by a jealous Eleanor is certainly untrue, and so is the tale that Henry constructed the hunting lodge at Woodstock for her and surrounded it with a garden that was a labyrinth (" Rosamund's Bower ," which was pulled down when Blenheim Palace was built nearby ).

The story is a Machiavellian labyrinth involving the British Government's tenuous support for a railway baron, a bid to annex Greenland, and a tilt at party leadership.

The story explores the labyrinth of Bolívar's life through the narrative of his memories.

The main thread of the story -- like Ariadne ’ s string guiding Theseus into the labyrinth with the Minotaur -- begins at a table on a terrace on the Greek Island of Crete ( one chapter is about Olive tree of Vouves ), winds its way into the center and back out to the same table, passing through Greece, Japan, France, England, and Seattle.

The title refers not only to the walls of Jericho in the Bible story but also to the tunnel-walls of the labyrinth of Minos in the Greek myth, which hid Theseus and the Minotaur from each other before their final confrontation.

Plutarch provides the most evocative version of this story: But when Egypt revolted with Athenian aid ... and Cimon's mastery of the sea forced the King to resist the efforts of the Hellenes and to hinder their hostile growth ... messages came down to Themistocles saying that the King commanded him to make good his promises by applying himself to the Hellenic problem ; then, neither embittered by anything like anger against his former fellow-citizens, nor lifted up by the great honor and power he was to have in the war, but possibly thinking his task not even approachable, both because Hellas had other great generals at the time, and especially because Cimon was so marvelously successful in his campaigns ; yet most of all out of regard for the reputation of his own achievements and the trophies of those early days ; having decided that his best course was to put a fitting end to his life, he made a sacrifice to the gods, then called his friends together, gave them a farewell clasp of his hand, and, as the current story goes, drank bull's blood, or as some say, took a quick poison, and so died in Magnesia, in the sixty-fifth year of his life ... They say that the King, on learning the cause and the manner of his death, admired the man yet more, and continued to treat his friends and kindred with kindness.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

But at the coroner's inquest Delphine told a forthright story.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

The Hetman told me to take the story over the phone and to write it.

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.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

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

But his mother told the story over and over, till her `` Martin said he was sorry '' was as much a part of her as the shape of her thin, pallid ears.

The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

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.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

This story is told through the character Rieux.

Athenian black-figure pottery was exported in increasing quantities and good quality throughout the Aegean between 600 BC and 560 BC, a success story that coincided with a decline in trade in Corinthian pottery.

According to an anonymous biographer of Aeschylus, the Athenians chose Simonides ahead of Aeschylus to be the author of an epigram honouring their war-dead at Marathon, which led the tragedian ( who had fought at the battle and whose brother had died there ) to withdraw sulking to the court of Hieron of Syracuse — the story is probably based on the inventions of comic dramatists but it is likely that Simonides did in fact write some kind of commemorative verses for the Athenian victory at Marathon.

This is Herodotus's account ( Histories 1. 31 ) of the story and it comes couched as advice from Solon the Athenian to Croesus as to who the most blessed people in history are.

Euripides placed this story twice on the Athenian stage, of which one version survives.

The traditional story relates that Pheidippides ( 530 BC – 490 BC ), an Athenian herald or hemerodrome ( translated as " day-runner " ( Kyle 2007 ), courier ( Larcher 1806 ), " professional-running courier " ( Sears 2003 ) or " day-long runner " ( Miller 2006 )), was sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon, Greece.

The significance of this story is only understood in the light of the legend that the god Pan returned the favor by fighting with the Athenian troops and against the Persians at Marathon.

" It seems likely that in the 500 years between Herodotus's time and Plutarch's, the story of Pheidippides had become muddled with that of the Battle of Marathon ( particularly the story of the Athenian forces making the march from Marathon to Athens in order to intercept the Persian ships headed there ), and some fanciful writer had invented the story of the run from Marathon to Athens.

The Athenian archons, led by Megacles, took this as the goddess's repudiation of her suppliants and proceeded to stone them to death ( on the other hand, Herodotus, 5. 71, and Thucydides, 1. 126, do not mention this aspect of the story, stating that Cylon's followers were simply killed after being convinced that they would not be harmed ).

The evidence suggests that Idomeneus invented the more salacious version of the story, possibly in his desire to parody and ridicule the courtroom displays of Athenian demagogues.

It is possible that the story of Hegetorides originates prior to the Peloponnesian War, as Thasos revolted from the Athenian alliance around 463 BC and was attacked by Athens.

According to the dialogues, this story was passed down to him through his grandfather, Dropides, who in turn got it from Solon, the famous Athenian lawmaker who got the story from an Egyptian sanctuary.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

The debate might be framed starkly as follows: on the one hand, we can hypothesise a poem put together from various tales concerning the hero ( the Grendel episode, the Grendel's mother story, and the firedrake narrative ).

" People of the Dark " is a remembrance story of " past lives ", and in its first-person narrative the protagonist describes one of his previous incarnations: Conan, a black-haired barbarian hero who swears by a deity called Crom.

By the end of the story, there is little physical difference between the body of the hero, now called Andrew, and humans equipped with advanced prosthetics, save for the presence of Andrew's artificial positronic brain.

In terms of values, Leeming contrasts " the myth of Jesus " with the myths of other " Christian heroes such as St. George, Roland, el Cid, and even King Arthur "; the latter hero myths, Leeming argues, reflect the survival of pre-Christian heroic values —" values of military dominance and cultural differentiation and hegemony "— more than the values expressed in the Christ story. Pomors often depicted Sirin s on the illustrations in the Book of Genesis as birds sitting in paradise trees.

The poet prays to the Muses to provide him with divine inspiration to tell the story of a great hero.

It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji " that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching ; thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two.

One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh ’ s journey to meet the flood hero, as well as a short version of the flood story.

The politics and ideology are secondary to the personal story that involved the hero or heroine.

Manning Coles published Drink to Yesterday ( 1940 ), a grim story occurring during the Great War, which introduces the hero Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon.

That story revealed that Templar wrote an adventure novel featuring a South American hero not far removed from The Saint himself.

This tale was inspired by the atmospheric candlelit scenes of the 17th-century Dutch painter Godfried Schalcken, who is the hero of the story.

The interaction in this story between a mode of cunning and irony ( the tricks, deceits, unexpected actions and sarcasms of the hero ) on the one hand, and a mode of pathos ( terror and brutality against defenceless people and against the hero after he has been revealed ) on the other, was aspired to and sometimes attained by the imitations that soon flooded the cinemas.

Although the young newspaperman hero and his sweetheart guess the answer to the story, they allow the diagnosis " scared to death " to stand.

The 35 minute epic tells the story of Link's evolution from child to hero.

The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, ' The Tale of Buluqiya ', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees.

The hero of a wuxia story keeps his honour by upholding justice and helping the poor, just as Robin Hood robs the rich to help the poor.

Ağır Roman tells the tragic story of a young hero who grows up in Cholera quarter but finally fails and commits suicide.

Set in France and Louisiana in the early 18th century, the story follows the hero le Chevalier Des Grieux and his lover Manon Lescaut.

While in many cases a story is cut off with the hero in danger of losing his life or another kind of deep trouble, in some parts of the full text Scheherazade stops her narration in the middle of an exposition of abstract philosophical principles or complex points of Islamic philosophy, and in one case during a detailed description of human anatomy according to Galen — and in all these cases turns out to be justified in her belief that the king's curiosity about the sequel would buy her another day of life.

* Die-Hard scenario-Which the story takes place in limited location ; a single building, plane, or vessel-which is seized or under threat by enemy agents, but are opposed by a single hero who fights an extended battle within the location using stealth and cunning to attempt to defeat them.

However, when the story moves to the Aranya Kanda and beyond, it seems to turn abruptly into fantasy with its demon-slaying hero and fantastic creatures.