Then there are the classic musical motifs, like those Richard Wagner scattered through the " Ring" cycle, that mark out the good man, the bad and the ugly.
They sailed the Nile on the khedive's own vessel, and they met Pope Leo XIII at the Vatican, Richard Wagner at Heidelberg, and the czar in St. Petersburg.
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They have inspired many works of art, music and literature, from pre-Raphaelite paintings of Arthurian tales to Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung operas and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.