Arion (mythology)

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In the Greek Mythology, Arion or Areion (in Greek old Άρείων / Areíôn ) is a immortal Cheval, endowed with the word according to Properce.

Its ascent varies according to the authors: according to the Pseudo-Apollodore, it is born from Poséidon and Déméter, “similar to a Furie”; Pausanias reports that it is given birth to by Gaïa (Earth).

It is assembled in particular by Adraste, king of Argos.

Homère is the first which speaks about it ( Iliade , XXIII, 347). Stace makes of it also mention ( Thébaïde , VI, 301).

Here what Pausanias says ( Arcadie , 25):

“It is reported that Déméter had of Poséidon a girl, of which it is not allowed to say the name to those which are not initiated, and the Areion horse. For this reason, one says, Arcadiens gave the first the nickname of Hippius to Poséidon. ”

He quotes in support of what he advances of the worms of Iliade and of Thébaïde .

Homère called in Iliade , about Arion:

“Not, nevertheless a hero, behind you, would excite divine Areion, this rapid dispach rider of Adraste whose race is immortal. ”

It is known, according to Thébaïde , that Adraste flees of Thèbes: “Wearing mourning clotheses and conduit by Areion with the green hairs. ” They claim that these worms indicate that Neptune was father of Arion. However Antimaque de Colophon says that Arion was wire of the Earth.

“Adraste, wire of Talaos, descendant of Créthée, the first of the Danaëns, pushed ahead its famous horses, nimble the Cérus and Areion Thelpusien, that the Earth itself gave birth to close to the wood of Apollon Oncéen so that it became the object of the admiration of the mortals. ”

This fabulous horse, of divine race, had the characteristic to have a mane green. Héraclès, making the war with the Élée NS, would have required this horse of Oncus. The son of Zeus would have been thus ridden on Arion when it seized Élis. Thereafter, Héraclès gave Arion to Adraste; therefore Antimaque called while speaking about Arion: “That it was then led by Adraste, its third Master. ”

The Pseudo-Apollodore (III, 6,8) tells that Adraste, in the defeat of Argiens, was only saved by its Arion horse, that Déméter, similar in Furie, had conceived of Poséidon. The scholiastes of Iliade (XXIII, 347) and of Lycophron (153) allot the same origin to him.

Areion is also the name of an press group and French council (Groupe Areion).

Sources

(III, 6,8).
(VIII, 25,9).
(II, 34).
(IV, 43; VI, 424 and suiv.).

See too

Adraste

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