Arion
Role: harper · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 25
In Book 3, Chapter 25, Herodotus is cited for the tradition about Arion and the dolphin. In Book 8, Chapter 25, one account says Demeter bore Arion, a foal, to Poseidon; another says the earth gave birth to him near the grove of Oncean Apollo.
During the war with the people of Elis, Hercules rode Arion into battle when he captured Elis, then gave the horse to Adrastus. Antimachus says Adrastus was Arion’s third trainer.
Relationship record
Life events
- Demeter bore a daughter and the foal Arion to Poseidon.(Book 8 · Chapter 25)
- According to Antimachus, the earth gave birth to Arion near the grove of Oncean Apollo.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · 📍 grove of Oncean Apollo)
- “whom near the grove of Oncean Apollo the earth itself gave birth to, a wonder for mortals to look upon.”
- Hercules captured Elis riding Arion, then gave the horse to Adrastus.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · 📍 Elis)
- Adrastus broke in Arion as the horse’s third trainer.(Book 8 · Chapter 25)
- With: Adrastus
- “Antimachus also has written about Arion, ‘He was broken in thirdly by king Adrastus.’”
Book 3 · Chapter 25
- with Herodotus (Herodotus records the tradition concerning Arion.) “As to Arion and the dolphin Herodotus has given the tradition as he heard it in his history about Lydia.”
Book 8 · Chapter 25
- parent: Demeter “And they say that Demeter bare a daughter to Poseidon, (whose name they will not reveal to the uninitiated), and the foal Arion”
- parent: Poseidon “They want to make the lines indicate in an ambiguous way that Poseidon was the father of Arion.”
- with Adrastus (interaction) “the swift Cærus and Thelpusian Arion, whom near the grove of Oncean Apollo the earth itself gave birth to”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.