"""Allan Water"". According to one, a Scottish ballad, the ""Allan Water's wide and deep, and my dear Anny's very bonny; Wides the Straith that lyes above't, if't were mine I'de give it all for Anny."" The other, more familiar, English ballad begins ""On the banks of Allan Water"" and relates the death of a miller's daughter whose soldier lover proves untrue. This version, popularised by C. E. Horn in his comic opera, ""Rich and Poor"" (1812), is sung by Bathsheba Everdene at the sheepshearing supper in Thomas Hardy's novel ""Far From The Madding Crowd"" (1874). A similar rendition was recorded"
"suitcase to a mysterious client (played by Turkish actor Ali Pinar). The cistern with its inverted Medusa pillar featured in the 2013 Dan Brown novel ""Inferno"" (as well as its 2016 film adaptation). In the young adult Marvel novel ""Black Widow: Forever Red"" by Margaret Stohl, published in October 2015, the climactic scenes take place in the cistern and in a secret lab hidden behind it. In the historical novel ""Eight Pointed Cross"" by Maltese-Canadian Author Marthese Fenech, the cistern is featured is scenes set in 16th century Istanbul. Basilica Cistern The Basilica Cistern (), is the largest of several"
"1919 novel ""The Sheik"", starts her journey into the desert from Biskra, and in the identically-named 1921 silent movie ""The Sheik"" starring Rudolph Valentino in perhaps his most famous role. Biskra is located in the north-east of Algeria, in the district of Biskra. The city lies about 248 miles (400 km) from Algiers, 71 miles (115 km) southwest of Batna and 137 miles (222 km) north of Touggourt. She is nicknamed ""The Queen of the Zibans"", ""The door of the desert"" or ""The Saharan Nice"" because of its location which is the beginning of the desert. It is located at"
"Others include ""Ferdinando Eboli"" (1829), ""Transformation"" (1831), ""The Invisible Girl"" (1832), ""The Dream"" (1833), and ""The Mortal Immortal"" (1834). ""The Evil Eye"" employs many motifs common in Gothic fiction, including abduction, revenge, and the curse of the Evil Eye. The tale displays the aesthetics of Romantic Orientalism, and can be categorized as an Oriental tale alongside William Beckford's novel ""Vathek"" (1786), Lord Byron's poems ""The Giaour"" and ""Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"" (1812–1818), Thomas Hope's ""Anastasius"" (1819), and Prosper Mérimée's ""La Guzla"" (1827). Unlike other Gothic tales by Shelley, such as ""Transformation"" and ""The Mortal Immortal,"" and her Gothic novel ""Frankenstein"", ""The"
"Bathsheba at her Bath (Veronese) Bathsheba at her Bath is a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, dated around 1575 and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France. This work is a marriage painting by Veronese ordered by a Venetian customer dealing with the theme of adultery linked to that of Justice and shows eroticism between the main two characters. The painting arrived in France in the seventeenth century in the royal collections. It was then kept at the Palace of Versailles, enlarged atop and on the left side to match the woodwork. It was sent to"
"It has also been suggested that Jeremias Gotthelf's nineteenth century novella, ""The Black Spider"", was heavily influenced by the Arachne story from Ovid's ""Metamorphoses"". In the novella, a woman is turned into a venomous spider having reneged on a deal with the devil. Arachne has had a considerable degree of influence on modern popular culture. She frequently appears in modern fantasy books, movies, and television series in the form of a monstrous spider. In """", she is pictured as a grotesque, half-woman, half-spider monster who nests on people to produce killer spiders. She is the central character in the 2011"
"in William Shakespeare's play ""Richard III"", which portrays him as a man openly allying with Richard III in his schemes—until he is ordered to kill the Princes in the Tower. Buckingham is depicted as a supporting character in Philippa Gregory's 2009 historical novel ""The White Queen"" (2009). He is depicted as the murderer of the Princes in the Tower in Sharon Penman's 1982 debut novel ""The Sunne in Splendour"". He is the major character and storyteller in Isolde Martyn's historical novel ""The Devil in Ermine"" (2013), which deals with the events of 1483. He is a central character in Susan"
"and Bathsheba, translated into the times and terms of Cromwellian England, was published in 1904; and ""Nero"", produced by Beerbohm Tree, was published in 1906. In these plays the poet's avowed aim was, instead of attempting to revive the method of Shakespeare and the Elizabethans, to revitalize the method of Greek drama. ""Paolo and Francesca"" (which admitted certainly one scene on an Elizabethan model) was the most successful. When a theatrical production of ""Ulysses"" was staged at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, in 1902 the opening night was attended by the Royal Family, nobility, politicians, and many other members of high"
"Lyon by the State in 1811, and is currently exhibited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. Its original format was restored in 1991, keeping the extension behind the new guidelines. The painting depicts a biblical scene: Bathsheba when she is seen by King David from the terrace of his palace while she bathes in the evening. But uncertainty about the subject represented. However, although it is generally agreed that the subject of the painting is Bathsheba at her bath, the scene could represent another biblical story, namely Susannah and the Elders, in which a very beautiful woman, who bathes"
"and Bathsheba"" (1588) and ""Edward I"" (1593). His theory is that originally, Peele wrote a short play for provincial performance by a touring company during the plague years of 1592-1594. However, upon returning to London, the play was deemed too short, and needed expanding, which is where Shakespeare got involved. Dover Wilson suggests that the reason Shakespeare was asked was because he was working on the thematically similar poems ""Venus and Adonis"" and ""The Rape of Lucrece"" at the time. However, because Shakespeare was unhappy working on the play, he purposely wrote badly. According to Dover Wilson ""you can see"
"of the main characters in ""The Enchantress of Florence"" (2008) by Salman Rushdie, mostly referred to as ""Niccolò 'il Macchia"", and the central protagonist in the 2012 novel ""The Malice of Fortune"" by Michael Ennis. Television dramas centering on the early Renaissance have also made use of Machiavelli to underscore his influence in early modern political philosophy. Machiavelli has been featured as a supporting character in ""The Tudors"" (2007–2010), Borgia (2011–2014) and ""The Borgias"" (2011–2013). Machiavelli appears in the popular historical video games ""Assassin's Creed II"" (2009) and """" (2010), in which he is portrayed as a member of the"
"ancient Greek romance novels have survived to the present day in a state of near-completion: ""Chareas and Callirhoe"", ""Leucippe and Clitophon"", ""Daphnis and Chloe"", ""The Ephesian Tale"", and ""The Ethiopian Tale"". Precursors of the modern popular love-romance can also be found in the sentimental novel ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded,"" by Samuel Richardson, published in 1740. ""Pamela"" was the first popular novel to be based on a courtship as told from the perspective of the heroine. Unlike many of the novels of the time, ""Pamela"" had a happy ending, when after Mr. B attempts unsuccessfully to seduce and rape Pamela multiple"
"Teseida Teseida (full title: Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia, or The Theseid, Concerning the Nuptials of Emily) is a long epic poem written by Giovanni Boccaccio c.1340–41. Running to almost 10,000 lines divided into twelve books, its notional subject is the career and rule of the ancient Greek hero Theseus (Teseo), although the majority of the epic tells the story of the rivalry of Palemone and Arcita for the love of Emilia. It is the main source of ""The Knight's Tale"" in Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"", and therefore is the original source of ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", a collaboration by William"
"Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The exact sources of Boccaccio's knowledge about the ancient Greek world are unknown, but is likely that he gained the knowledge through his close friendship with Paolo de Perugia, a medieval collector of ancient myths and tales. Jeanne de la Font gained fame in the sixteenth century by writing a French verse adaption of ""Teseida"". Book I: Teseo (Theseus) launches an expedition into Scythia, the land of the Amazons. There his expedition is victorious against the warrior women and he marries their queen, Ipolita (Hippolyta). Book II: Returning home to Athens with Ipolita, he encounters on"
"two powerful Venetian families. According to art historians and Joséphine Le Foll, two themes are intertwined in this painting: Bathsheba at her Bath (Veronese) Bathsheba at her Bath is a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese, dated around 1575 and now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France. This work is a marriage painting by Veronese ordered by a Venetian customer dealing with the theme of adultery linked to that of Justice and shows eroticism between the main two characters. The painting arrived in France in the seventeenth century in the royal collections. It was then kept at"
"to Edgar Rice Burroughs's fictional version of Mars in ""Sir Harold of Zodanga,"" this time to recover their daughter Voglinda, likewise seized by the unrepentant Malambroso. ""Harold Shakespeare,"" the final tale, sends Shea and Belephebe on an unrelated adventure precipitated by the foolishness of Shea's colleague Polacek, into William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"". While no more Harold Shea volumes were produced by de Camp and Stasheff, one additional contribution to the series was published later; ""Return to Xanadu"" by Lawrence Watt-Evans, which revisits the world of ""Kubla Khan"" first encountered (briefly) in de Camp and Pratt's ""The Castle of Iron"". In"
"appears as a character in Torquato Tasso's 16th-century poem ""Jerusalem Delivered"", in which he is portrayed as an epic hero and given a fictional love interest, the pagan warrior-maiden Clorinda. He is also loved by the Princess Erminia of Antioch. Portions of Tasso's verses were set by Claudio Monteverdi in his 1624 dramatic work ""Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda"". He also appears in one of the scenes in Imre Madách's ""The Tragedy of Man"". He also appears as a character in Tom Harper's ""Siege of Heaven"" and is depicted as a violent psychopath. His portrayal is similar although slightly"
"of oxidative stress and neuronal death in Parkinson's disease. Madeleine L'Engle's 1973 science fantasy novel ""A Wind in the Door"" prominently features the mitochondria of main character Charles Wallace Murry, as being inhabited by creatures known as the farandolae. The novel also features other characters travelling inside one of Murry's mitochondria. The 1995 horror fiction novel ""Parasite Eve"" by Hideaki Sena depicts mitochondria as having some consciousness and mind control abilities, attempting to use these to overtake eukaryotes as the dominant life form. This text was adapted into an eponymous film, video game, and video game sequel all involving a"
"treatments of the legend. Katrina Trask's ""Under King Constantine"", an 1892 book comprising three long romantic poems, is set in his reign. He is an important unseen character in Henry Newbolt's 1895 play ""Mordred"" in his usual role as Arthur's successor. He similarly appears in Rosemary Sutcliff's 1963 novel ""Sword at Sunset"", in which the grievously wounded ""Artos"" voluntarily passes the crown to him. In Parke Godwin's 1984 novel ""Beloved Exile"", Constantine is one of several nobles fighting Guenevere, the protagonist, in a bid to succeed Arthur. Constantine also features as the anti-hero of a fictional Welsh language opera in"
"a specific narrative but the interplay of sensual effect and solemnity, blending realistic intimacy and dignified remoteness"". A 1963 print by Picasso, ""Seated Nude and Another Figure"", refers to the overtly voyeuristic properties of ""Bathsheba"". The picture forms the subject of an episode of the Canadian television detective series ""Murdoch Mysteries"". Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt) Bathsheba at Her Bath (or ""Bathsheba with King David's Letter"") is an oil painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt (1606–1669) finished in 1654. A depiction that is both sensual and empathetic, it shows a moment from the Old Testament story in which King David"
"Book of One Thousand and One Nights"". This epic has been influential in the West since it was translated in the 18th century, first by Antoine Galland. Many imitations were written, especially in France. Various characters from this epic have themselves become cultural icons in Western culture, such as Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba. A famous example of Islamic poetry on romance was ""Layla and Majnun"", an originally Arabic story which was further developed by Iranian, Azerbaijani and other poets in Persian, Azerbaijani, Turkish languages. It is a tragic story of undying love much like the later ""Romeo and Juliet""."
"Plutarch describes how the women of Argos fought against King Cleomenes and the Spartans under the command of Telesilla in the fifth century BCE. Literary women warriors include ""Gordafarid"" (Persian: گردآفريد) in the ancient Persian epic poem The Shāhnāmeh, Delhemma in Arabic epic literature, Mulan, Camilla in the ""Aeneid"", Belphoebe and Britomart in Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", Bradamante and Marfisa in ""Orlando Furioso"", Clorinda and (reluctantly) Erminia in ""La Gerusalemme liberata"", and Grendel's mother. The woman warrior is part of a long tradition in many different cultures including Chinese and Japanese martial arts films, but their reach and appeal"
"published as the work of Shakespeare. This theory is in part due to Peele's predilection for gore, as evidenced in ""The Battle of Alcazar"" (acted 1588–1589, printed 1594), published anonymously, which is attributed with much probability to him. ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (printed 1595) was followed by ""The Love of King David and fair Bethsabe"" (written ca. 1588, printed 1599), which is notable as an example of Elizabethan drama drawn entirely from Scriptural sources. F. G. Fleay sees in it a political satire, and identifies Elizabeth and Leicester as David and Bathsheba, Mary, Queen of Scots as Absalom. ""Sir Clyomon"
"role in Lion Feuchtwanger's historical novel, Josephus (The Jewish War). The book ""Agrippa's Daughter"", by Howard Fast, is about Berenice. She is also in The Last Disciple Series. From the 17th century to contemporary times, there has been a long tradition of works of art (novels, dramas, operas, etc.) devoted to Berenice and her affair with the Roman Emperor Titus. The list includes: The love story between Berenice and Titus is also the premise of ""La clemenza di Tito"" (1734), an Italian opera with music by Antonio Caldara and a libretto by Pietro Metastasio that was later set to music"
"in secret (). John Gill mentions that in Rabbinic literature Bathsheba is supposed to have been the granddaughter of Ahitophel. The argument is that she is called the daughter of Eliam in 2 Sam. 11:3, and 2 Sam 23:34 mentions an Eliam, the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's ""thirty"". The assumption is then that these two Eliams are the same person. However in 1 Chronicles the names are very different: Bathsheba is called Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel in 1 Chronicles 3:5. And in the list of David's thirty in 1 Chronicles 11:36 we have Ahijah the"
"Valperga (novel) Valperga: or, the Life and Adventures of Castruccio, Prince of Lucca is an 1823 historical novel by the Romantic novelist Mary Shelley, set amongst the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines (the latter of which she spelled ""Ghibeline""). Mary Shelley's original title is now the subtitle; ""Valperga"" was selected by her father, William Godwin, who edited the work for publication between 1821 and February 1823. His edits emphasised the female protagonist and shortened the novel. ""Valperga"" is a historical novel which relates the adventures of the early fourteenth-century despot Castruccio Castracani, a real historical figure who became the"
"Arm and the Darkness"" (1943) also deals with this period in France, while Hilda Lewis' ""Wife to Great Buckingham"" (1959) goes so far as to make Buckingham's love for the French queen the main cause of his undoing. The Duke also figures in historical romances like Evelyn Anthony's ""Charles, The King"" (1963) and Bertrice Small's ""Darling Jasmine"" (2007), although the main focus there is on other protagonists. In Philippa Gregory's ""Earthly Joys"" (1998), which has as its subject the famous gardener John Tradescant the elder; the bewitching Duke appears halfway through the novel as the object of Tradescant's love. Another"
"of the toes of her left foot had been lost. Other repairs during this conservation removed iron stains and fixed a number of cracks along her body. The statue has only recently been re-attributed to Giambologna; it was first suggested as one of his autograph statues in 1978, and in 1983 Avery reasserted her identified as Bathsheba. The Getty statue's form and style correspond with several marble statues of women known as being by him, some of which were given mythological titles. These include a Venus recorded by Vasari; a Galatea carved for Bernardo Vecchietti (Giambologna's first Florentine patron); the"
"the notes to his poem, ""The Waste Land"". The book appears in the film ""Apocalypse Now"" (1979), among those kept by the character, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, along with ""The Golden Bough"". The book appears in the limited series ""Batman: Tenses"", in which it is thrown in a fire by Ted Krosby before he kills his father. The book also appears in the Oliver Stone film ""The Doors"". From Ritual to Romance From Ritual to Romance is a 1920 book written by Jessie L. Weston. Weston's book is an examination of the roots of the King"
"1914 and 1918. A Spanish translation has been published in 2 volumes by the Islamic Research Institute of the Tehran Branch of McGill University. The ""Shahnameh"", especially the legend of Rostam and Sohrab, is cited and plays an important role in the novel ""The Kite Runner"" by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini. Shahnameh has also been adapted to many films and animations: Modern English graphic novels: Shahnameh The Shahnameh ( ""Šāhnāmah"" , ""The Book of Kings"", also transliterated ""Shahnama"") is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic"
"(""eternal youth"") Bathory also appears as the main antagonist in the novel ""Dracula the Un-dead"", a sequel to Bram Stoker's classic novel by his great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. In the book, she is cousin to Count Dracula and was the motive behind his decision to move to London in the original novel, as she was murdering women under the guise of Jack the Ripper and he swore to stop her. The historical novel ""The Countess"" by Rebecca Johns tells a first-person fictionalized account of Báthory's life from her prison cell at Csejthe Castle. In the book, she"
"Chrysostom, and stopped the mob from destroying the Library. She continued her correspondence with John and St. Augustine, which eventually led to the modern (1530s) divisions of the Church. ""The Shadow of the Lion"" (2002) deals with Chernobog's attempt to destroy Venice and the awakening of the city's ancient powers. Marco is the main protagonist, while Chernobog acts through several intermediaries. ""This Rough Magic"" (2003) is set in Corfu and features several new antagonists. It is largely centered on Maria and Benito's awakening, Marco having fit comfortably in his new role in Venice. Elizabeth Bartholdy has replaced Chernobog as the"
"ahistorical. The fictional nature ""is evident from its blending of history and fiction, beginning in the very first verse, and is too prevalent thereafter to be considered as the result of mere historical mistakes."" Thus, the great villain is ""Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled over the ""Assyrians"""" (1:1), yet the historical Nebuchadnezzar II was the king of ""Babylonia"". Other details, such as fictional place names, the immense size of armies and fortifications, and the dating of events, cannot be reconciled with the historical record. Judith's village, Bethulia (literally ""virginity"") is unknown and otherwise unattested to in any ancient writing. Nevertheless, there have"