LIFE OF ARION

Proclus Chrestomathy: According to Pindar the
dithyramb was invented at Corinth, and we are
told by Aristocles that the originator of this song
was Arion, the first trainer of the evclic or circular
chorus.

Eusebius Chronicle: Fourth year of the 40th
Olympiad (8.c. 617): Flourished Arion of Methymna,
who was rescued by a dolphin off Taenarum.

Scholiast on Aristophanes | cyclic-chorus-trainer |
Antipater and FEuphronius . .. declare that the
eyclic or circular choruses were first assembled by
Lasus. . . . The earlier authorities, however, namely
Hellanicus and Dicaearchus, ascribe their origin to
Arion of Methymna, the former in his Lest of Carunm

Fietors and the latter in his J'reatise on the Musical
Contests.

suidas Leaicon: Arion: Ot Methyimna, Ivric poet.
son of Cycleus, flourished in the 38th Olympiad
(n.c. 628-625). Aecording to some authorities he
was a pupil of Aleman. He composed songs, namely
two Books of Preludes to Epic poems. He is also
said to have been the inventor of the tragic style,
and to have been the first to assemble a chorus, to
sing a dithyramb, to give that name to the song of
the chorus, and to introduce Satyrs speaking in
metre.

Poseidon ascribed to Arion; this hymn being of
much later date will be found in vol, iii; for other

refs. see Pauly-Wiss. Ieal-Encycl:

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