In legend, Amarynthus ( a form of Amarantus ) was a hunter of Artemis and king of Euboea ; in a village of Amarynthus, of which he was the eponymous hero, there was a famous temple of Artemis Amarynthia or Amarysia ( Strabo x.

It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker William Walters.

Abdera's eponymous hero, Abderus, was another of Heracles ' lovers.

Usually there is a male figure ; he should perhaps be seen as the eponymous hero of the Thessalians, Thessalos, who is probably also to be identified on many of the earlier, federal coins of Thessaly.

Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ( Letters from a Lost Uncle ), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.

In Ivanhoe, as in the Waverley novels, religious and sectarian fanatics are the villains, while the eponymous hero is a bystander who must weigh the evidence and decide where to take a stand.

The ancient name of Erice was Eryx ( Έρυξ in Greek ), and its foundation was associated with the eponymous Greek hero Eryx.

In The Tale of Little Pig Robinson, Beatrix Potter directs the reader to Robinson Crusoe for a detailed description of the island ( the land of the Bong tree ) to which her eponymous hero moves.

( Ostensibly, they had been using a plot from a book written by eponymous hero Jason King, but it turns out at the end that that was a double bluff.

Examples of this include the 1960 Danger Man episode " View from the Villa " starring Patrick McGoohan, the 1976 four-episode Doctor Who story entitled " The Masque of Mandragora " set in Renaissance Italy, and an episode of Citizen Smith in which the eponymous hero visits Rimini.

The name " Beowulf " comes from the main character in the Old English epic poem Beowulf, which was bestowed by Sterling because the eponymous hero is described as having " thirty men's heft of grasp in the gripe of his hand ".

When he tries to bar the eponymous hero of the opera Siegfried from awakening Brünnhilde from her magic sleep, Siegfried breaks the spear in two and Wotan flees.

In Greek mythology, Phocus () was the name of the eponymous hero of Phocis.

In Greek mythology, Tenes was the eponymous hero of the island of Tenedos.

Cato and Silius Italicus wrote that Sancus was a Sabine god and father of the eponymous Sabine hero Sabus.

He is the eponymous hero of Pwyll Pendefig Dyfed, the first branch of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi, and also appears briefly as a member of Arthur's court in the medieval tale Culhwch ac Olwen.

* Finn ( comics ), the eponymous hero of a comic strip of the same name written by Pat Mills, published in 2000 A. D.

Another example is the popular comic-strip soldier of fortune Captain Easy, who started as the two-fisted sidekick of the scrawny eponymous hero of the strip Wash Tubbs.

The district was traditionally connected to the cult of the god: Messapus and Halesus, eponymous hero of Falerii, were believed to be his own sons.

Brutus, or Brute of Troy, is a descendant of the legendary Trojan hero Aeneas, known in medieval British legend as the eponymous founder and first king of Britain.

He was the eponymous hero in the serial Ivanhoe, a very loose adaptation of the romantic novel by Sir Walter Scott, and he also appeared in the series The Alaskans, as well as playing Beau Maverick, an English-accented cousin of frontier gamblers Bret Maverick ( James Garner ) and Bart Maverick ( Jack Kelly ) in Maverick.

Davis plays the eponymous lead character and hero: a reluctant farmer who plays a critical role in protecting a special baby from a tyrannical queen in a sword and sorcery setting.

The eponymous hero is working-class artist Morgan Delt ( David Warner ), obsessed with Karl Marx and gorillas, who tries to stop his ex-wife ( Vanessa Redgrave ) from remarrying.

The eponymous hero has the unique talent of being able to move between parallels purely by force of will, and is aided by Rose Wylde, a telepath whose many incarnations across the parallels are able to communicate with one another.

The other marriage is that of the outspoken heiress, Martha Dunstable, to Doctor Thorne, the eponymous hero of the preceding novel in the series.

Alp Arslan ( ālp arslān ; ālb ārslān ; 1029 – 15 December 1072 ) was the third sultan of the Seljuq dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

Joshua Garrison mimicked Chan's " political pseudo-documentary style " in his Virginia Tech Massacre, a controversial Halo 3 – based re-enactment and explanation of the eponymous real-life events.

released their eponymous debut Run – D. M. C.

* François Arago ( 1786 – 1853 ), the physicist, astronomer and liberal politician, who secured the abolition of slavery in the French colonies in 1853, was born in the nearby village of Estagel ( Estagell ) and is memorialized in the eponymous Place Arago that bears his statue in the centre of the town.

* Rock bands – Jeff Wayne and Rick Wakeman with Kevin Peek did a Progressive Rock version of the entire suite with added incidental music on an album called " Beyond The Planets " which also contained occasional narration by Patrick Allen. An arrangement of " Mars " by progressive-rock trio Emerson, Lake & Powell appeared on their eponymous album ( 1985 ) and was played in their 1985 – 86 live shows. King Crimson, Greg Lake's first successful band performed a rock arrangement of " Mars " live in 1969.

* 594 BC — The leaders of Athens, facing an economic crisis and popular discontent, appointed the poet – statesman Solon eponymous archon to institute democratic reforms and revive the city's constitution, extending citizenship to males of many classes.

Slav raids on Eastern Roman territory are mentioned in 518, and by the 580s they had conquered large areas referred to as Sclavinia ( Slavdom, from Sklavenoi – Σκλαυηνοι, the early South Slavic tribe which is eponymous to the current ethnic and linguistic Indo-European people ).

Famous Modenesi include Mary of Modena, the Queen consort of England and Scotland ; operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti ( 1935 – 2007 ) and soprano Mirella Freni, born in Modena itself ; Enzo Ferrari ( 1898 – 1988 ), eponymous founder of the Ferrari motor company ; the Catholic Priest and Senior Exorcist of Vatican Gabriele Amorth ; and the rock singer Vasco Rossi who was born in Zocca, one of the 47 comuni in the Province of Modena.

The character " Geordie Georgie ", as portrayed by Catherine Tate in her eponymous TV show, is a Geordie, complete with a thick affected accent, and is portrayed regularly taking part in ( mostly ridiculously ambitious ) sponsored events for a North East based charity – the charity in question usually has a website with an outrageous domain name, for instance, the site for the charity she supports for battered husbands is " www. chinnedbythemissus. co. uk ".

Hugh Capet ( c. 939 – 24 October 996 ), called in contemporary sources " Hugh the Great " (), was the first King of the Franks of the eponymous Capetian dynasty from his election to succeed the Carolingian Louis V in 987 until his death.

In William Shakespeare's play Macbeth ( 1603 – 06 ), the eponymous character resides at Glamis Castle, although the historical King Macbeth ( d. 1057 ) had no connection to the castle.

* Nilus the Sandman, main character of the eponymous children's television show ( 1991 – 1997 )

* Six Pillars, ( 1934 – 35 ), by Berthold Lubetkin, on Crescent Wood Road, a villa strongly in the spirit of Le Corbusier with eponymous six pillars at street level.

Canford Manor, Dorset, was extended in a Tudor Gothic style ( 1848 – 52 ), including a large entrance tower, the most unusual interior is the Nineveh porch, built to house Assyrian sculptures from the eponymous palace, this has an interior decorated with Assyrian motifs.

* Frank Calder ( 1877 – 1943 ), the first NHL President, eponymous to:

* January 12 – Led Zeppelin's eponymous debut album released.

* April 16 – The Rolling Stones release their eponymous début album.

210 – 273 ), Greek historian, statesman and general, was an hereditary priest of the Eleusinian family of the Kerykes, and held the offices of archon basileus and eponymous in Athens.

In July – August 2006, he played the eponymous role in A Voyage Round My Father at the Donmar Warehouse, a production which then transferred to the West End.

Slav raids on Eastern Roman territory are mentioned in 518, and by the 580s they had conquered large areas referred to as Sclavinia ( Slavdom, from Sklavenoi – Σκλαυηνοι, the early South Slavic tribe which is eponymous to the current ethnic and linguistic Indo-European people ).