what was arthur conan doyle famous for?
Sherlock Holmes
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 Arthur Conan Doyle , author of Sherlock Holmes 

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 The most influential retelling , which according to many commentators ensured that the Mary Celeste affair would never be forgotten , was a story in the January 1884 issue of the Cornhill Magazine . This was an early work of Arthur Conan Doyle , then a 25 @-@ year @-@ old ship 's surgeon . Doyle 's story , entitled " J. Habakuk Jephson 's Statement " , did not adhere to the facts ; he renamed the ship " Marie Celeste " , the captain 's name was " J. W. Tibbs " , the fatal voyage took place in 1873 and was from Boston to Lisbon . The vessel carried passengers , among them the eponymous Jephson . In the story , another passenger , a fanatic named Septimus Goring with a hatred of the white race , has suborned members of the crew to murder Tibbs and take the vessel to the shores of Western Africa . Here , the rest of the ship 's company is killed , save for Jephson who is spared because he possesses a magical charm that is venerated by Goring and his accomplices . Doyle had not expected his story to be taken seriously , but Sprague , still serving as the US consul in Gibraltar , was sufficiently intrigued to inquire if any part of the story might be true . 

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 Conan is also seen as a product of its time : The themes of the film reflect the political climate of the United States in the 1980s . Ronald Reagan was the country 's president and the ideals of individualism were promoted during his two terms in office . He emphasized the moral worth of the individual in his speeches , encouraging his fellow Americans to make the country successful and to stand up against the Soviet Union during the Cold War . Dr. Dave Saunders , a film writer and lecturer at South Essex College of Further and Higher Education , linked facets of Conan the Barbarian to aspects of Reaganism — the conservative ideology that surrounded the president 's policies . Saunders likened Conan 's quest against Doom to the Americans ' crusades , his choice of weaponry — swords — to Reagan 's and Milius 's fondness of resisting the Soviets with only spirit and simple weapons , and Doom 's base of operations to the Kremlin . Conan , in Saunder 's interpretation , is portrayed as the American hero who draws strength from his trials and tribulations to slay the evil oppressors — the Soviets — and crush their un @-@ American ways . Douglas Kellner and his fellow academic Michael Ryan proposed another enemy for the American individual : an overly domineering federal government . The film 's association with individualism was not confined to the United States ; Jeffrey Richards , a cultural historian , noticed the film 's popularity among the youths of the United Kingdom . Robin Wood , a film critic , suggests that in most cases , there is only a thin veneer between individualism and fascism ; he also said that Conan is the only film in that era to dispense with the disguise , openly celebrating its fascist ideals in a manner that would delight Riefenstahl . 

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 For readers of the modern age , The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon ( 1737 – 94 ) further cemented the scandalous reputation of Elagabalus . Gibbon not only accepted and expressed outrage at the allegations of the ancient historians , but might have added some details of his own ; he is the first historian known to state that Gannys was a eunuch , for example . Gibbon wrote : 

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 William Shakespeare 's 1600 play Much Ado About Nothing contains an early modern reference to the legendary king , as does Tirso de Molina 's El Burlador de Sevilla . In 1910 British novelist and politician John Buchan used the legend in his sixth book , Prester John , to supplement a plot about a Zulu uprising in South Africa . This book is an archetypal example of the early 20th @-@ century adventure novel , and proved very popular in its day . 
