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.

" 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 a city in Crawford County, Iowa, United States, along the Boyer River.

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

Herodotus ( 1, 23 ) says " Arion was second to none of the lyre-players in his time and was also the first man we know of to compose and name the dithyramb and teach it in Corinth ".

Arion was also the fastest horse in the world in Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan.

This aspect was also associated with Anion ( or Arion ) whom Heracles rode, who later inspired tales of Pegasus.

Herodotus also mentions an earlier poet Arion, who had amassed a fortune on a visit to Italy and Sicily, so maybe Simonides wasn't the first professional poet, as claimed by the Greeks themselves.

) The collection also contains treatises on eloquence, some historical fragments, and literary trifles on such subjects as the praise of smoke and dust, of negligence, and a dissertation on Arion.

According to Herodotus, Periander also held the musical contest that was won by the poet Arion.

Notably in this context, Iorga reserved praise for some who had supported the Central Powers ( Carol I, Virgil Arion, George Coşbuc, Dimitrie Onciul ), but also stated that actual collaboration with the enemy was unforgivable.

He was also director to the Arion des Westen Musical Society and in 1879 he founded the Balatka Academy of Musical Art, in which his son Christian and his daughter Annie were teachers.

Arion may also be:

The red slug, also known as the chocolate arion or the European red slug, Arion rufus, is a large land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusc in the family Arionidae, the roundback slugs.

Although very often brick-red or brown in coloration, Arion rufus can also be greenish-brown, black, yellow, or orange.

The area is also home to the Banana slug ( Ariolimax columbianus ), which has recently been threatened by the encroachment of a new species of slug, the Black slug ( Arion ater ), an invasive species from Northern Europe.

Katz also made 25 etchings for the Arion Press edition of Gloria with 28 poems by Bill Berkson.

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

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

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

In 1994, it was adapted by Vikram Seth and Alec Roth for the opera Arion and the Dolphin ( aka " The Dolphin Opera "), commissioned by the English National Opera for professional performers with community chorus and children's chorus.

* 2002: Arion, a poem by Alexander Pushkin, translated from the Russian, with a note by Olga Carlisle, Arion Press

Scève's chief works are Délie, objet de plus haulte vertu ( 1544 ); three anatomical blazons ( La Gorge, Le Sourcil, La Larme ); the elegy Arion ( 1536 ) and the eclogue La Saulsaye ( 1547 ); and Microcosme ( 1562 ), an encyclopaedic poem beginning with the fall of man.

This came after months of tension between Romania and Russia, generated over the territorial issue and the Russian claim to be representing Romania at Berlin: Kogălniceanu's envoy ( Eraclie Arion ) had even threatened the Russians with a Romanian denunciation of their alliance, and 60, 000 Romanian soldiers were prepared for Budjak's defense.

In 1994, the band recorded its second demo with band members: Kevin Cadogan on guitar, Steve Bowman on drums, Arion Salazar on bass, and Stephan Jenkins on vocals.

Jude Gold, associate editor of Guitar Player Magazine, recognized that the liner notes falsely credited guitarist Tony Fredianelli with the creative work of former guitarist Kevin Cadogan, who was completely omitted from the band's biography included in the liner notes, which state: " As always, the band profited from the musical interplay between Tony Fredianelli, Stephan Jenkins, Arion Salazar and Brad Hargreaves.

Busiek and Pacheco developed an extended storyine featuring Arion coming into conflict with Superman.

This allowed him to send his sons to study abroad ; after entering the Saint Sava High School with a scholarship and graduating with honors, Take Ionescu ( as he became known in his student days ) entered the University of Paris and took a PhD in Law, attending courses together with, among others, the future politicians Raymond Poincaré, Constantin Dissescu, Constantin Arion, Grigore Andronescu, Alexandru Djuvara, and Alexandru Marghiloman.