Hesiod and Stesichorus tell the story according to which after her death Iphigenia was divinised under the name of Hecate, fact which would support the assumption that Artemis Tauropolos had a real ancient alliance with the heroine, who was her priestess in Taurid and her human paragon.

And Herman's drug habit became public domain: In 1977 for instance the Wild Romance played a gig in a highschool in Almelo, the Christelijk Lyceum ; during the break Brood was caught on the toilet taking heroine or speed ( there are different reports on the type of drug, but it is a wellknown story amongst former students ), the rest of the concert was cancelled, and this also was the last time a rockconcert took place at this school for many years.

Hero or heroine is sometimes used to simply describe the protagonist of a story, or the love interest, a usage which can conflict with the superhuman expectations of heroism.

Very loosely based on the events of 1575, Scott's story reinvented aspects of the castle and its history to tell the story of " the pathetic, beautiful, undisciplined heroine Amy Robsart and the steely Elizabeth I ".

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

The story of the syrinx is told in Achilles Tatius ' Leukippe and Kleitophon where the heroine is subjected to a virginity test by entering a cave where Pan has left syrinx pipes that will sound a melody if she passes.

The story follows the hero and the young heroine as they attempt to thwart the Dark Lord of Glaive ( Shadow Knight in the Japanese version ) and his sorcerer assistant, Julius, from destroying the Tree of Mana and dooming their world.

Introduced as a minor character in a non-fantasy historical story by Robert E. Howard, " The Shadow of the Vulture ", Red Sonya of Rogatino would later inspire a fantasy heroine named Red Sonja, who first appeared in the comic book series Conan the Barbarian written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith.

After this international hit, Binoche returned to France and began work opposite Daniel Auteuil on Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac, the true story of a French Resistance heroine.

The heroine of the poem is given different family names in different versions of her story.

The story of Antigone has a haunting similarity to the history of Sophie Scholl, heroine of the White Rose, and Orff may have been memorializing her in his opera.

Little Women ’ s popular audience was responsive to ideas of social change as they were shown “ within the familiar construct of domesticity .” Even though Alcott was supposed to just write a story for girls, her main heroine, Jo March, became a favorite of many different women, including educated women writers through the 20th century.

The myth of Galanthis is also briefly mentioned by Pausanias: he recounts the Theban version of the story, which referred to the heroine as Historis, called her a daughter of Teiresias, and made no mention of her transformation.

She is the heroine of the story Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion.

One story embodying this theme is that recounted by the epic heroine Shakuntala to explain her own parentage.

" In the story, the main character is faced with the daunting task of saving the heroine … He ran away from something in the past, so he decides that this time he will stand his ground.

Its true origins are in the United States: " This is a lovely folklore story, but sadly Mary Thomas of Llangollen was not the heroine of the nursery rhyme ...

The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of Apollonius of Tyre — Eustathius ' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( particularly in Act III ).

Contemplating her lack of parental support, however, the heroine concludes that ' if standing before a room full of people, creating some sob story about her tormented struggle with that day's fill-in-the-blank addiction makes her feel important, well, who am I to judge '.

According to a widely-told story, King Charles I quoted lines from the book as he mounted the scaffold to be executed ; Samuel Richardson named the heroine of his first novel after Sidney's Pamela.

To the Last Man was almost a model of its kind, an exceptionally strong story of feuding families in the post-Civil War era, with a cast worthy of an " A " feature, excellent direction by Henry Hathaway, and an unusual climactic fight between the villain ( Jack LaRue ) and the heroine ( Esther Ralston, in an exceptionally appealing performance ).

The beginning of the story has a twist, in that a teacher urges the heroine to kill her evil stepmother so that she would take her place.

The story of the rescue attracted extraordinary attention throughout Britain and made Grace Darling a heroine who has gone down in British folklore.

The plot also shows some parallels with an earlier murder mystery story by the English novelist Sarah Burney The Hermitage ( 1839 ): the return of a childhood companion, the sexual symbolism of defloration implied in the crime, and almost catatonic reactions of the heroine to it, for instance but The Moonstone introduces in novel form, as opposed to Poe's short story form, a number of elements that were to become classic attributes of the twentieth-century detective story:

So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.

A woman who undergoes artificial insemination against the wishes of her husband is the unlikely heroine of `` A Question Of Adultery '', yesterday's new British import at the Apollo.

With Julie London enacting the central role with husky-voiced sincerity, the longsuffering heroine is at least attractive.

The heroine of Liar-Soft's 2008 visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow, Mary Clarissa Christie, is based on the real-life Christie.

It is such a character that she portrays in Edward Weston, and that her heroine Agnes Grey finds deeply appealing.

Adelaïde is the heroine of Gioacchino Rossini's 1817 opera, Adelaide di Borgogna.

Carmilla herself is mentioned several times as a former ( until her death at the hands of vampire hunters ) friend of the book's vampire heroine Geneviève.

Jesus is also commonly thought to have died at the same age, and Catherine's heroine Mary Magdalen is said to have fasted for thirty-three years.

Similarly, TV heroine Jessica Fletcher of Murder, She Wrote is confronted with bodies wherever she goes, but over the years corpses have also piled up in the streets of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she lives.

Esther (; ), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.

Budd Boetticher summarises the view thus: " What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Another text in which the heroine of the Gothic Novel encounters the Supernatural Explained is The Castle of Wolfenbach ( 1793 ) by Gothic author Eliza Parsons.

The novel's heroine, Scarlett O ' Hara, charming though not beautiful, is a southern belle.

A hero ( heroine is always used for females ) (), in Greek mythology and folklore, was originally a demigod, their cult being one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion.

Later, hero ( male ) and heroine ( female ) came to refer to characters who, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display courage and the will for self sacrifice — that is, heroism — for some greater good of all humanity.

For similar reasons, the age of the heroine was also altered: initially stated to be a 16 year old high-schooler in the original Japanese version, she is an 18 year old college student in the US version.

Atë, ancient Greek for " ruin, folly, delusion ," is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because of his or her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his or her death or downfall.

1412 – 30 May 1431 ), nicknamed " The Maid of Orléans " (), is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint.

The heroine is at several points the catalyst to a powerful orgasm that condemned men are subjected to before they are slaughtered as they climax at the hand of those seeking the Mandragora flower.

Ten-year-old " Peggy " is the heroine in Little Sister.