Arion on a sea horse, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau ( 1855 )

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

The sailors believed Arion was dead in the sea, and on arrival in Corinth they told the king that Arion had decided to remain in Italy.

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 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.

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.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Arion on a Sea Horse ( 1855 )

At Thebes he views the shields of those who died at the Battle of Leuctra, the ruins of the house of Pindar, and the statues of Hesiod, Arion, Thamyris, and Orpheus in the grove of the Muses on Helicon, as well as the portraits of Corinna at Tanagra and of Polybius in the cities of Arcadia.

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.

They partly enclose the circle bisected by a wide gravel axis flanked by parterres which centers on a spring-fed water-basin inspired by the bassin of Diana at Versailles, but here expressing the more appropriately water-centered Greek myth of the poet Arion and the dolphins.

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

Frank Martinus Arion, pseudonym of Frank Efraim Martinus, was born on December 17, 1936 in Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles.

* Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature website on Arion

On December 19, 2011, Cadogan and original Third Eye Blind bassist Arion Salazar reunited to perform on the television program " Backline ".

Skaaland and his partner, Spiros Arion, soon lost the titles to The Sicilians ( Lou Albano and Tony Altimore ) on July 10, 1967 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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.

Arion, a popular and seemingly unbeatable babyface, returned to the WWWF after an absence and teamed with Strongbow.

Arion was now a heel, and pinned Strongbow in eastern arenas as he went on to challenge champion Bruno Sammartino.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Erasmus instanced Arion as one of the traditional poet's topics that sound like historia rather than fabulae, though he misremembered that Augustine had taken the Arion story to be historia

This war ended as unfortunately as Amphiaraus had predicted, and Adrastus alone was saved by the swiftness of his horse Arion.

He had Standardbred horses to be raced as trotters, including his winning horses Electioneer, Arion, Sunol, Palo Alto, Beautiful Bells, and Chimes ; and Thoroughbreds for flat racing.

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.

Under the influence of heroic epic, Doric choral lyric and the innovations of the poet Arion, it had become a narrative, ballad-like genre.

Arion, Joseph's representative in Alexandria, however, refused to allow Hyrcanus money, and the latter accordingly put him in chains, not only escaping punishment from the king, but even winning both his favor and that of the courtiers, whose aid his brothers had secretly invoked against him.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

" 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.