Bill

Season: 5, Episodes: 1, Faction: DHARMA Initiative

Overview

Bill was a DHARMA Initiative member.

Fertility (Water)

Fertility (Earth)

1977

5×10 – He’s Our You

   

He was told by LaFleur to assist Erin in putting out the fire caused by the burning DHARMA van crashed into building 15, one of the houses, at the Barracks. (“He’s Our You”)

   

He may have been killed along with other members of the DHARMA Initiative in the Purge, or he may have left the island sometime between 1977 and The Purge.

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Associated DHARMA Location

Decoded Season 1 & 5 Characters

James Sawyer

Erin

Key Episode(s) to Decoding the Character

5x10 "He's Our You"









Wiki Info

In Greek mythology, Arion or Areion is a divinely-bred, extremely swift immortal horse which, according to the Latin poet Sextus Propertius, was endowed with speech.

Arion’s siring by Poseidon in stallion form vary by author: according to the Pseudo-Apollodorus, the horse was foaled by Demeter while she was “in the likeness of a Fury”; Pausanias reported that, according to Antimachus, the horse was the foal of Gaia, the Earth, herself. In the Epic Cycle Arion was mounted most notably by Adrastus, king of Argos.

The earliest literary mention of Arion is in Homer, Iliad, XXIII, 346. Statius also made mention of the horse in his 1st century Latin epic poem the Thebaid, VI, 301.

Homer

On the subject of Arion, Homer said in the Iliad:

“… there is no man that shall catch thee by a burst of speed, neither pass thee by, nay, not though in pursuit he were driving goodly Arion, the swift horse of Adrastus, that was of heavenly stock …”

Pausanias

Pausanias says:

“Demeter, they say, had by Poseidon a daughter, whose name they are not wont to divulge to the uninitiated, and a horse called Areion. For this reason they say that they were the first Arcadians to call Poseidon Horse.”

In support of the lineage they advance, Pausanias reports, the Arcadians cite some verses from the Iliad (23.346 quoted above) and the Thebaid (an early Greek epic of uncertain authorship, of which only fragments remain). Pausanius says that “in the Thebaid it is said that Adrastus fled from Thebes: ‘Wearing wretched clothes, and with him dark-maned Areion’ “. Latin scholia assert that these verses indicate that Neptune was Arion’s sire. But Pausanias goes on to quote Antimachus of Colophon as saying that Arion was a child of the Earth (Gaia):

“Adrastus, son of Talaus, descendant of Cretheus,
The very first of the Danai to drive his famous horses,
Swift Caerus and Areion of Thelpusa,
Whom near the grove of Oncean Apollo
Earth herself sent up a marvel for mortals to see.”

According to Pausanius, Heracles, waging war with the Eleans, acquired this horse from Oncus. The son of Zeus would have thus ridden upon Arion when he seized Elis. Thereafter, Heracles gave Arion to Adrastus; this is why Antimachus said of Arion: “Adrastus was the third lord who tamed him.”

Pseudo-Apollodorus

The Pseudo-Apollodorus (III, 6, 8) recounts that in the defeat of the Argives, the same battle in which Eteocles and Polynices slew each other, Adrastus alone among the Argive leaders survived, saved by his horse Arion that Demeter, in the likeness of a Fury, had conceived by Poseidon. The scholiasts of the Iliad (XXIII, 347) and of Lycophron (153) attribute to him the same origin.

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Mythological Family Members & Associated Deities

POSEIDON (Father)

DEMETER (Mother)

DESPOINA (Sister)

GAIA

HERACLES

ZEUS

ADRASTUS