behind in Syracuse to be executed in his place should he fail to return; he comes back and both are saved. The story is rather faithfully reproduced in an episode of the animated series Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend. Idiomatic use "Damon and Pythias" came to be an idiomatic expression for "true friendship." Denis Diderot's short story, "The Two Friends from Bourbonne" (1770), begins: "There used to be two men here who might be called the Damon and Pythias of Bourbonne." In The Small House at Allington (1864) by Anthony Trollope, the Countess De Courcy teases the young Adolphus Crosbie for a long stay in the country with his friend Bernard Dale by remarking, “Quite a case of Damon and Pythias.” The canines Bummer and Lazarus were eulogized as "the Damon and Pythias of San Francisco" upon Bummer's death in 1865. In Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Henry Jekyll's two oldest friends, Dr. Lanyon and Mr. Utterson (a lawyer), have an exchange while discussing Dr. Jekyll's apparent self-imposed isolation. In the discussion (below), the use of the Damon-and-Pythias idiom would seem to indicate that, whether the difference was on a point of science or something else, it was not "only" some trivial difference: ...said Utterson. "I thought you had a common bond of interest". "We had", was the reply. "But it is more than ten years since Henry Jekyll became too fanciful for me. He began to go wrong, wrong in the mind… Such unscientific balderdash", said the doctor, flushing suddenly purple, "would have estranged Damon and Pythias". This little spirit of temper was somewhat of a relief to Mr. Utterson. "They have only differed on some point of science", he thought… Chapter Two (entitled "Damon and Pythias") of Gustave Flaubert's 1869 novel Sentimental Education tells of the friendship of Frederick Moreau and Charles Deslauriers. The 1889 novel A Marriage Below Zero by Alfred J. Cohen (pen name: Alan Dale) has a young gay couple continually referring to themselves as Damon and Pythias. Soon the upscale social world that they try pass in begins to refer to them with the same term, but as derogatory codeword for 'gay couple.' Shakespeare's Hamlet addresses his close friend Horatio as "O Damon dear." In the novel Little Men by Louisa M. Alcott (1871), Chapter 14 is entitled 'Damon and Pythias.' This is a reference