"It had all the elements of Homeric legend," she said.
He combined his natural storytelling abilities and great imaginative power with universal elements of folk legend to produce a body of fairy tales that relates to many cultures.
Voyager was a mission of mythic proportions, with all the elements of Homeric legend, and I was unspeakably fortunate to have been a part of it.
Schafer would later jokingly refer to the RTS elements of Brütal Legend; during the fundraising for Broken Age, Schafer teasingly threatened to add RTS elements to the point-and-click if the funding had reached certain levels.
Wagner's final opera, Parsifal (1882), which was his only work written especially for his Bayreuth Festspielhaus and which is described in the score as a "Bühnenweihfestspiel" ("festival play for the consecration of the stage"), has a storyline suggested by elements of the legend of the Holy Grail.
Everyone, doubters and believers, meets in Paris, for what all can agree on is that the image of Franklin, the American electrician, was more essential to his success as a diplomat in France than any other element of his legend.
Live poetry readings in cities went on to become a key element of the legend of the Beat generation, particularly a famous reading in 1955 at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, where Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure and Gary Snyder (among others) came to the attention of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose offer to publish Ginsberg's Howl kicked off their fame.
Medieval historiographers often incorporated prose versions of these cantares in their chronicles, Latin and vernacular; it was by this process that the fanciful Cantar de Rodrigo ("Song of Rodrigo"), chronicling the Cid's early manhood with elements of the later legend, was preserved.
Both of these elements contribute to the quality of legend that the play wishes to create, but the language is more grounding than soaring.
Of course, we know all that phantasmagoric stuff was nonsense, but it's still pretty crazy that the core elements of the Bunny Man legend are intact.
