The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous tragedies, ancient and modern, the most famous being the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

Including an account of the most famous archers of ancient and modern times ; with some curious particulars in the life of Robert Fitz-Ooth Earl of Huntington, vulgarly called Robin Hood .... York: printed for E. Hargrove, bookseller, Knaresbro ' ( later editions: York, 1845 and facsimile reprint, London: Tabard Press, 1970 )

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

American socialite Paris Hilton is a celebrity who is believed to typify the modern " famous for being famous " paradigm.

Among the more famous regiments in the lineages of modern Indian and Pakistani Armies are: The charge of the 21st Lancers at Battle of Omdurman | Omdurman

Perhaps the most famous nominal damages award in modern times has been the $ 1 verdict against the National Football League ( NFL ) in the 1986 antitrust suit prosecuted by the United States Football League.

Jarman's version, played by Welsh guitarist Tich Gwilym is one of the most famous modern versions of the song.

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

That poem in turn appears to have been the principal source for the famous Anglo-Saxon poem to which the modern title The Phoenix is given.

Muslims had actually lived in the region for quite some time ; the famous Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi, reported Muslims amongst Africans in the land of Sofa in 947 ( modern day Mozambique, itself a derivative of the name of the Arab Shiekh who ruled the area at the time when the Portuguese arrived, Musa bin Ba ' ik ).

For example, Bernard Gui, a famous inquisitor working in the area of Carcassonne ( in modern France ), executed 42 people out of over 900 guilty verdicts in fifteen years of office.

* John Lautner, internationally famous modern architect

The most famous modern Hungarian opera is Béla Bartók's Duke Bluebeard's Castle.

Today around six of the original 348 Olney Hymns regularly feature in modern church worship, the most famous of which is " Amazing Grace ".

In the general view of Oromo people's role in Ethiopia, Ras Gobana Dacche is a famous Oromo figure who led the development of modern Ethiopia and the political and miliatary incorporation of more territories into Ethiopian borders.

Pantheism was popularized in the modern era as both a theology and philosophy based on the work of Baruch Spinoza, whose treatise, Ethics, was an answer to Descartes ' famous dualist theory that the body and spirit are separate.

He would have received a conventional élite education in the Greek classics and then rhetoric, perhaps at the famous School of Gaza, may have attended law school, possibly at Berytus ( modern Beirut ) or Constantinople, and became a rhetor ( barrister or advocate ).

With this legal handbook of criminal cases in the tradition of the famous " Causes Célèbres " of the Franch lawyer Gayot de Pitaval ( 1673 – 1743 ) Feuerbach intend to establish a modern criminal psychology (" Seelenkunde ") for crime investigation, criminal judges, etc.

The first two of his Meditations on First Philosophy, those that formulate the famous methodic doubt, are the portion of Descartes writings that most influenced modern thinking.

It has works by famous modern artists such as Picasso and Salvador Dalí.

Because religion helps to define motivation, Weber believed that religion ( and specifically Calvinism ) actually helped to give rise to modern capitalism, as he asserted in his most famous and controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

Another famous example of emulating instrumentation instead of singing the words is the theme song for The New Addams Family series on Fox Family Channel ( now ABC Family ).

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

Their most famous hit is the song " Fish Heads ", which was named as one of the top 100 videos of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

* Constantinople's change of name was the theme for a song made famous by The Four Lads and later covered by They Might Be Giants and many others entitled " Istanbul ( Not Constantinople )".

Co-penned by Linda Perry, the song offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a woman who, for the last 15 years, has been as famous for being a rock star as she's been for being a victim.

* The song " To the Dogs or Whoever " by Josh Ritter includes the stanza " Was it Casey Jones or Casey at the Bat who died out of pride and got famous for that?

The show's theme song, written and performed by Gary Portnoy, and co-written with Judy Hart Angelo, lent its famous refrain, " Where Everybody Knows Your Name ", as the show's tagline.

One song from that record, " Producer's Medley ", featured Wariner's recreation of several very famous songs which Chet Atkins both produced and performed on.

Biafra accused the band of wanting to license the famous Dead Kennedys song " Holiday in Cambodia " for use in a Levi's jeans commercial, which the band denied.

The song was recorded on 26 May 1971 and a month later received its first radio airplay on New York ’ s WNEW-FM and WPLJ-FM to mark the closing of The Fillmore East, a famous New York concert hall.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

The song was made famous by Paul Robeson whose voice, deep and resonant as it was, was said by some to have attained the status of the voice of God.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

The album is considered less inspired than its predecessor, but it is notable for the Parsons-Hillman-Leadon song " Older Guys " and for its take on Jagger and Richards ' " Wild Horses "— the first recording released of this famous song.

Pop music really started in the South Asian region with the famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song ‘ Ko-Ko-Korina ’ in 1966.

Hip Hop music became all the more famous with the song ' Pettai Rap ' from the Tamil movie Kadhalan starring Prabhu Deva.

' Impi ' is also the title of a very famous South Africa song by Johnny Clegg and the band Juluka which has become something of an unofficial national anthem, especially at major international sports events and especially when the opponent is England.

* Jackson ( song ), written by Jerry Leiber and Billy Edd Wheeler, and made famous by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash

" With the help of record producers Herb Alpert and Lou Adler, Jan and Dean scored a No. 10 hit with " Baby Talk " ( 1959 ), their first song to contain a few of the soon to be famous elements that became associated with surf ( close vocal harmonies, selective use of major and minor chords, falsetto doo-wop singing ) and then scored a series of hits over the next couple of years.

He recorded the song " Because ", which was made famous by The Dave Clark Five, in the UK for Clark's 1986 musical, Time ( the single is out of print ).

One of his most famous numbers is " They Ain't Makin ' Jews Like Jesus Anymore ," a song in which Kinky verbally and physically beats up a drunken white racist who berates blacks, Jews, Greeks, and Sigma Nus in a bar.

His cover of Chinga Chavin's " Asshole from El Paso ", a parody of Merle Haggard's " Okie from Muskogee " is, perhaps, his most famous song.

* William Kite, Victorian showman made famous in the song " Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!