Another story of Eris includes Hera, and the love of Polytekhnos and Aedon.

It covers the story of Sinbad ( voiced by Brad Pitt ), a pirate who travels the sea to recover the lost Book of Peace from Eris ( voiced by Michelle Pfeiffer ) in order to save his childhood friend, Prince Proteus ( voiced by Joseph Fiennes ), from accepting Sinbad's death sentence.

An apple of discord is a reference to the Golden Apple of Discord () which, according to Greek mythology, the goddess Eris ( Gr. Ἔρις, " Strife ") inscribed " to the fairest " and tossed in the midst of the festivities at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, thus sparking a vanity-fueled dispute between Hera, Athena and Aphrodite that eventually led to the Trojan War ( for the complete story, see The Judgement of Paris ).

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

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.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

The story of Ealdred being deposed comes from the Vita Edwardi, a life of Edward the Confessor, but the Vita Wulfstani, an account of the life of Ealdred's successor at Worcester, Wulfstan, says that Nicholas refused the pallium until a promise to find a replacement for Worcester was given by Ealdred.

In any case, the necklace given to Beowulf in the story is not the Brísingamen itself ; it is only being compared to it.

" The account noted a story of an Aboriginal woman being killed by a bunyip and the " most direct evidence of all " – that of a man named Mumbowran " who showed several deep wounds on his breast made by the claws of the animal ".

This combination of story improvisation and relentless perfectionism — which resulted in days of effort and thousands of feet of film being wasted, all at enormous expense — often proved very taxing for Chaplin, who in frustration would often lash out at his actors and crew, keep them waiting idly for hours or, in extreme cases, shutting down production altogether.

While an inbetweener, Barks submitted gag ideas for cartoon story lines being developed and showed such a knack for creating comical situations that by 1937 he was transferred to the story department.

Shortly before quitting, he moonlighted as a comic book artist, contributing half the artwork for a one-shot comic book ( the other half of the art being done by story partner Jack Hannah ) titled Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

Many Near Eastern religions include a story about a battle between a divine being and a dragon or other monster representing chaos — a theme found, for example, in the Enuma Elish.

The story about Wally being shot down over Burma was based in part on that of Irving's biological father ( whom he never met ), who had been shot down over Burma and survived.

A fan of Philip K. Dick, author of " We Can Remember it For You Wholesale ," the short story upon which the film was based, Cronenberg related ( in the biography / overview of his work, Cronenberg on Cronenberg ) that his dissatisfaction with what he envisioned the film to be and what it ended up being pained him so greatly that for a time, he suffered a migraine just thinking about it, akin to a needle piercing his eye.

The second season had no connecting story arc ; plots varied from Wally finding disciples (" The Shroud of Wally ") to Dilbert being accused of mass murder (" The Trial ").

He repeats the story about the flag being planted in front of Bishop Theodorik's tent, which the enemy mistakenly attacks believing it to be the tent of the King.

Kaye's daughter, Dena, tells a story her father related about being at a restaurant in China and trying to order chicken.

However, at the end of the story, he apparently succumbs to the virus himself before he can escape, his physiology being close enough to that of the Daleks for the virus to affect him.

Plutarch is the source also for the story that the victorious Spartan generals, having planned the demolition of Athens and the enslavement of its people, grew merciful after being entertained at a banquet by lyrics from Euripides's play Electra: " they felt that it would be a barbarous act to annihilate a city which produced such men " ( Life of Lysander )

For quite some time, he had been planning to direct an epic movie named Megalopolis, a story about the aftermath and reconstruction of New York City after a mega-disaster, but after the city was hit by the real life disaster of September 11, the project was suddenly seen as being too sensitive.

Writer Vladimir Nabokov, in his lectures at Cornell University, said: " In an Anglo-Saxon thriller, the villain is generally punished, and the strong silent man generally wins the weak babbling girl, but there is no governmental law in Western countries to ban a story that does not comply with a fond tradition, so that we always hope that the wicked but romantic fellow will escape scot-free and the good but dull chap will be finally snubbed by the moody heroine.

Revie snubbed the FA by selling news of his resignation to the Daily Mail, where the story broke before the FA had received his letter of resignation.

* Sci / Tech Computer's inventor snubbed by industry ( BBC News story )

In a different story, Tantalus was blamed for indirectly having stolen the dog made of gold created by Hephaestus ( god of metals and smithing ) for Rhea to watch over infant Zeus.

's life thus becomes something of a " frame story " ( albeit indirectly ) for such works as his opera The Abduction of Figaro.

Rameau's comic opera Les Paladins ( 1760 ) is based on a story in canto 18 of Orlando ( though Rameau's librettist derived the plot indirectly via La Fontaine's Contes ).

Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story " The Mark on the Wall " which reads, " I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.

Within each title set in the Tiberium story arc ( Tiberian Dawn, Tiberian Sun, Renegade, Tiberium Wars, Tiberian Twilight, and their respective expansion packs ), the Tiberium crystals represent both the tools and spoils of war and are used by players to purchase new units and buildings, with each of the series ' factions either directly or indirectly battling for control over the crystals.

Diegesis, however, is the telling of the story by a narrator ; the author narrates action indirectly and describes what is in the characters ' minds and emotions.

However, the story of She is firmly ensconced in what fantasy theorists call ' primary world reality ', with the lost kingdom of Kôr, the realm ruled by the supernatural She, a fantastic " Tertiary World " at once directly part of and at the same time indirectly set apart from normative " primary " reality.

The model for one of the novel's main characters — and the person referred to indirectly by the title — objected to her depiction in the story.

The lyrics tell the story in a first person narrative of the betrayal of the singer's romantic partner, how he heard about it indirectly via gossip from other people ( through the " grapevine "), and the emotional pain and disbelief he is suffering.

Her story, probably much embellished, is told indirectly in Polybius ( 14. 4ff.

The Granada TV series adaptation ( entitled merely " The Red Circle ") makes several key modifications to the short story: The episode introduces a new character ( Enrico Formani, an Italian expatriate who is murdered by Gorgiano, possibly indirectly as a result of Watson blowing Formani's cover ); Inspector Gregson is replaced with Inspector Hawkins ; Gorgiano makes an attempt to infiltrate the Warrens ' house and kidnap Emilia and is chased away by Leverton ; Emilia notices Holmes and Watson in the boxroom and realizes she's been seen ; Holmes enters Emilia's room and speaks with her, hearing the story of how she and her husband ended up involved with the Red Circle ; Emilia arrives at the scene of the fight between Gorgiano and Gennaro before Holmes and his party do.

To add to the tragedy of their separation, Davies scripted the series two story arc so that Rose and the Doctor would be indirectly responsible for their separation.

Several modern scholars believe Azo ’ s story indirectly suggests the migration of the early Georgian tribes to the northwest and blending of Anatolian elements with the tribes living in Kartli proper.

Most story and novel-length works of science fiction include speculation ( directly or indirectly ) on modes of life and behaviour.

In many versions of Batman's origin story he is a mugger who murders young Bruce Wayne's parents, thus making him indirectly responsible for Batman's existence.

Michelle pours out her tragic story to Kazuya about how Heihachi burned down her village and indirectly killed both her parents.

As some believe that many philosophical concepts are symbolised indirectly as mythical figures in a story form in Akilam, this view on Kroni is accepted during religious studies.

Massenet's comédie-héroïque, like so many other dramatized versions of the story of Don Quixote, relates only indirectly to the great novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

Perceval introduced an enthusiastic Europe to the grail and all versions of the story, including those that made the grail " Holy ", probably derive directly or indirectly from it.