Although notable for his musical inventions, Arion is chiefly remembered for the fantastic myth of his kidnapping by pirates and miraculous rescue by dolphins, a folktale motif.

Sleeman observes of the dithyramb, or circular chorus, " It is first mentioned by Archilochus ( c 665 BC )… Arion flourished at least 50 years later … probably gave it a more artistic form, adding a chorus of 50 people, personating satyrs … who danced around an altar of Dionysus.

Arion is also associated with the origins of tragedy: of Solon John the Deacon reports: “ Arion of Methymna first introduced the drama action of tragedy, as Solon indicated in his poem entitled Elegies ".

" there is no historicity in this tale ", also according to Eunice Burr Stebbins, and Arion and the dolphins is given as an example of " a folkloristic motif especially associated with Apollo " by Irad Malkin > Yet there are many more or less reliable historical accounts from many periods of people being saved by dolphins.

From what is told in ancient Greek scripts, Arion, although favored by Apollo, is the son of Poseidon and Ino.

This is especially interesting because Arion is credited with the invention of the dithyramb, a dionysiac song.

Arion is alluded to in Plato's " Republic " at 453d, where Socrates says: “ Then we, too, must swim and try to escape out of the sea of argument in the hope that either some dolphin will take us on its back.

Arion is mentioned in Act 1, scene ii of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, where the Captain reassures Viola that her brother may still be alive after the shipwreck, for " like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves.

Arion is mentioned in the first stanza of Luis de Góngora's Soledades.

Arion is a poem by Alexander Pushkin.

Arion is a journal of humanities and the classics published at Boston University.

There is a cantata by the French Baroque composer André Campra telling the story of Arion

Arion on the dolphin is the imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers based in Boston and New York ; the figure was used previously by the sixteenth-century Basel printer Johannes Oporinus as his device.

Arion is located at ( 41. 949194 ,-95. 462955 ).

Montreal is also home to the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal, the early music ensemble Arion, the all-female ensemble La Pietà, created by violinist Angèle Dubeau, to name but a few ; Quebec City is home to the Violons du Roy under the direction of Bernard Labadie and the Orchestre symphonique de Québec under the direction of Yoav Talmi.

" As a literary composition for chorus, their inspiration is unknown, although it was likely Greek, as Herodotus explicitly speaks of Arion of Lesbos as " the first of men we know to have composed the dithyramb and named it and produced it in Corinth ".

He is a divorced father of two children, Arion and Julia.

It shows the mythological lyre player Arion of Lesbos, which is supported by a Dolphin on the sea.

The story of Arion and the dolphin, which involves the Corinthian tyrant Periander and is evidently set at the turn of the 7th century BCE, suggests that Methymna was already a prominent city with far-reaching contacts across the Greek world at this period.

He enjoyed success as a tag team wrestler, winning the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship with Smasher Sloan on September 22, 1966 in Washington, D. C. ( though they eventually lost the belts in the same city to Spiros Arion and Antonio Pugliese ), then the WWWF World Tag Team Championship with King Curtis Iaukea on February 1, 1972 in Philadelphia.

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* Arion, Iowa, a town in the United States

In July 1967, they won the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship from Arnold Skaaland and Spiros Arion.

Maelstrom has been republished as a PDF in 2008 by Arion Games, under license from Puffin Books, along with seven supplementary rulebooks and resources such as The Maelstrom Companion, the Beggars ' Companion, and several modules and settings resources.

The slug ( Arion fasciatus ), which has a restricted distribution in the south of England, and the Soldier beetle ( Cantharis fusca ) also occur.

The second story tells of the Greek poet Arion of Lesbos ( 7th century BC ), who was saved by a dolphin.

Arion had amassed a fortune during his travels to Sicily and Italy.

Threatened with death, Arion asked to be granted a last wish which the crew granted: he wanted to sing a dirge.

The dolphin carried Arion to the coast of Greece and left.

Their child was a horse, Arion, which was capable of human speech.

He pursues the mare-Demeter and from the union she bears the horse Arion and a daughter who originally had the form or the shape of a mare.

In the myth Demeter was united with Poseidon Hippios ( horse ) and bore the horse Arion and the unnamed.

Arion riding a Dolphin, by Albrecht Dürer circa.

Arion () was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb: " As a literary composition for chorus dithyramb was the creation of Arion of Corinth ," The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth.

Arion, playing his kithara and riding dolphins.

According to Herodotus ' account of the Lydian empire under the Mermnads, Arion attended a musical competition in Sicily, which he won.

On his return trip from Tarentum, avaricious sailors plotted to kill Arion and steal the rich prizes he carried home.

Arion was given the choice of suicide with a proper burial on land, or being thrown in the sea to perish.

Neither prospect appealed to Arion: as Robin Lane Fox observes, " No Greek would swim out into the deep from a boat for pleasure.

Playing his kithara, Arion sang a praise to Apollo, the god of poetry, and his song attracted a number of dolphins around the ship.

At the end of the song, Arion threw himself into the sea rather than be killed, but one of the dolphins saved his life and carried him to safety at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Cape Tainaron.

Shortly after, word came to Pyranthus that the ship in which Arion had sailed had been brought to Corinth by a storm.

He ordered the crew to be led before him, and inquired about Arion, but they replied that he had died and that they had buried him.

" Because of this he ordered them to be kept under guard, and instructed Arion to hide in the monument of the dolphin the next morning, attired as he was when he threw himself into the sea.

When the King had brought them there, and ordered them to swear by the departed spirit of the dolphin that Arion was dead, Arion came out of the monument.