From Oedipus onward, Greek and Roman tales are filled with exposed children who escaped death to be reunited with their families — usually, as in Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, more happily than in Oedipus's case.

After leaving the army he went to Florence, and was fortunate enough to discover in the Laurentian Library a complete manuscript of Longus's Daphnis and Chloe, an edition of which he published in 1810.

In 1778 his edition of Longus's Daphnis and Chloë was published.

Church tradition developed outside of the canon of the New Testament describes the martyrdom of many saints, including the legend of the martyrdom of Barnabas.

One well-known legend about El Cid describes how he acquired the stallion.

The term undead describes beings in mythology, legend or fiction that are deceased yet behave as if alive.

For example, one legend in the Babylonian Talmud describes Titus as having had sex with a whore on a Torah scroll inside the Temple during its destruction.

In Gaiman's afterword to the book, he describes the story was a retelling of an existing Japanese legend.

Zhal. Ph ' reng (" the immaculate crystal garland ") describes the origin of amrit in a version of the Hindu " ocean-churning " legend re-told in Buddhist terms.

Geoffrey dealt with Avalon in more detail in Vita Merlini, in which he describes for the first time in Arthurian legend the enchantress Morgan le Fay as the chief of nine sisters ( Moronoe, Mazoe, Gliten, Glitonea, Gliton, Tyronoe, Thiten and Thiton ) who live on Avalon.

A third ghostly legend of similarly dubious provenance describes a female spectre periodically walking in a field north-east of the castle, on the gentle slope below Warren House.

Assyriologist George Smith ( 1840-1876 ) describes the seal as having two facing figures ( male and female ) seated on each side of a tree, holding out their hands to the fruit, while between their backs is a serpent, giving evidence that the Fall of man legend was known in early times of Babylonia.

The style which describes events of Spanish colonization in an exaggeratedly idealized manner has been referred to as the " White legend ".

As violinist Arnold Steinhardt describes, a legend was passed down through the Ysaÿe family about the first violin brought to the lineage:

Part of the migration legend also describes a stay at Culhuacán (" leaning hill " or " curved hill ").

The BBC describes him as a " legend ".

The first half of the legend describes how the king and the bishop ruled Sweden like ‘ two great lights ’ with feelings of ‘ internal love ’ toward each other, emphasizing the peaceful coexistence of the secular and ecclesiastical rule during a happy era when ‘ predatory wolves ’ could not hit their ‘ poisonous teeth against the innocent ’.

Several other indigenous documents describe the arrival of Alvarado in what would become Guatemala, including the Título K ' oyoi which describes the battle in terms similar to the modern legend.

However, the Spanish American bogeyman does not resemble the shapeless or hairy monster of Spain: social sciences professor Manuel Medrano says popular legend describes El cucuy as a small humanoid with glowing red eyes that hides in closets or under the bed.

His parents were Prince Bang Klang Hao, who ruled as King Sri Indraditya, and Queen Sueang, although a legend describes his parents as an ogress named Kangli and a fisherman.

A legend amongst the Coast Salish peoples describes the origins of the Western Redcedar.

In the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area book, storyteller Old Coyote describes a legend related to the bighorn sheep.

Writer David Dubal describes it as " a legend in the piano literature ," and " fiendish ," " one of the most subtly difficult works in the literature.

The official West Brom website describes Allen as " the complete footballer ", and compares him to the Hungarian legend Ferenc Puskás.

A famous legend and unexplained phenomenon describes a procession of visions ( Drosoulites ) seen in the nearby village Frangokastello as troops that died in the war of independence against the Turks.

A legend describes Yared gaining musical insight and talent through interaction with three birds, which inspired him to link the spiritual with the musical through the blending of musical terms which he defined as Ge ’ ez, Izil, and Ararary.

Assyriologist George Smith ( 1840 – 1876 ) describes the seal as having two figures ( male and female ) on each side of a tree, holding out there hands to the fruit, while at the back of one is a serpent, giving evidence that the Fall of man legend was known in early times of Babylonia.

Many poems and plays, and two operas ( Les Abencérages, by Luigi Cherubini, and L ' esule di Granata, by Giacomo Meyerbeer ) mention the legend, but the whole story is doubtful, because the best historians do not mention it.

A recorded legend from Trøndelag tells how a corpse lying on a beach became the object of a quarrel between the two types of draugr.

This legend is found in two sources, Hans Svaning's History of King Hans from 1558 – 1559 and Johan Rantzau's History about the Last Dithmarschen War, from 1569.

According to a well-known legend, Hengist and Horsa, two brothers, landed in 449 as mercenaries for a British king, Vortigern.

His legend was recorded in Kojiki and Nihonshoki, but the accounts of him are different in these two sources.

The second is the Roman legend of Brutus, recorded in two separate Latin works.

Hengist ( or Hengest ) and Horsa ( or Hors ) are figures of Anglo-Saxon, and subsequently British, legend, which records the two as the Germanic brothers who led the Angle, Saxon, and Jutish armies that conquered the first territories of Britain in the 5th century.

The leaders seized the General Post Office ( GPO ), raising two flags: a green flag bearing the legend " Irish Republic " and the Tricolour, and proclaiming independence for Ireland.

The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on a naive reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles.

Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a dung chair containing a hole called sedia stercoraria, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles, before announcing " Duos habet et bene pendentes " (" He has two, and they dangle nicely "), or " habet " (" he has ' em ") for short.

The pope sat briefly on two " pierced chairs " at the Lateran: "... the vulgar tell the insane fable that he is touched to verify that he is indeed a man " a sign that this corollary of the Pope Joan legend was still current in the Roman street.

It is not certain what should be made of these latter two absences as it is known that Friar Tuck, for one, has been part of the legend since at least the later 15th century.

This could suggest two main possibilities: either that an early form of the Robin Hood legend was already well established in the mid-13th century ; or alternatively that the name " Robin Hood " preceded the outlaw hero that we know ; so that the " Robin Hood " of legend was so called because that was seen as an appropriate name for an outlaw.

The two young princes were not seen in public after August and there arose subsequently a number of accusations that the boys had been murdered by Richard, giving rise to the legend of the Princes in the Tower.

In legend, Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, the Atreids.

* Sam Llewellyn wrote two children's books set in the sinking Lyonesse, with original Celtic names for the cast of Arthurian legend: Lyonesse: The Well Between The Worlds ( 2009 ) and Lyonesse: Dark Solstice ( 2010 ).

This new literature in Czech consisted largely of epic poetry of two types: the legend and the knightly epic, both based on apocryphal tales from the Bible, as well as hagiographic legends of earlier periods.

Tradition maintains that Braunschweig was created through the merger of two settlements, one founded by Brun, a Saxon count who died in 880, on one side of the river Oker – the legend gives the year 861 for the foundation – and the other the settlement of a legendary Count Dankward, after whom Dankwarderode Castle ( Dankward's clearing ), which was reconstructed in the 19th century, is named.

Under Abbasid rule, the legend goes, the secret of papermaking was obtained from two Chinese prisoners from the Battle of Talas in 751, which led to the first paper mill in the Islamic world being founded in Samarkand.

An old Icelandic legend says that two night-prowling giants, a man and a woman, were traversing the fjord near Drangey Island with their cow when they were surprised by the bright rays of daybreak.

Ancient pictures of the Roman twins usually follow certain symbolic traditions, depending on the legend they follow: they either show a shepherd, the she-wolf, the twins under a fig tree, and one or two birds ( Livy, Plutarch ); or they depict two shepherds, the she-wolf, the twins in a cave, seldom a fig tree, and never any birds ( Dionysius of Halicarnassus ).

As a major part of this kingdom, Carlisle features strongly in the histories of Urien and his son Owain, two kings of Rheged who are the subject of much Arthurian legend.

According to this legend, the medieval name of Monza, " Modoetia ", is derived from these two words.