Arion
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Arion the animal
Arion of the sea · Arion the Methymnaean
in the texts
Orations
Legendary musician whose singing charmed dolphins that later rescued him at sea.
For if Ismenias played the flute among you, or Timotheus the ancient sang, or Arion, at whose singing on the sea they say the dolphins came to the ship, and afterward, when he had fallen overboard by some chance, took him up and saved him, how would you be disposed?
but Arion — for it was not Periander, but Arion — having made a bronze likeness, not large, dedicated it at Taenarum, himself seated upon his benefactor.
And when Arion had ceased and the sailors yielded nothing soft, he flung himself into the deep, and a dolphin coming under bore the singer to Taenarum as he was, with his equipment.
On Moral Ends
A Pythagorean philosopher among the Locrians visited by Plato
Why to the rest of the Pythagoreans — Echecrates, Timaeus, Arion, to the Locrians — that, when he had expressed Socrates, he might join the discipline of the Pythagoreans, and learn those things which Socrates rejected?