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ARION

Lire

Herodotus J/Jisturves: Periander was despot of
Corinth. During his lifetime, according to the
Corinthians — and indeed the Lesbians —a_ very
marvellous thing took place, namely the rescue of
Arion of Methymna from the sea at Taenarum by

a dolphin. This Arion was the finest singer to the
lvre then known, and is the first recorded com-
poser of dithyrambs, which he named and trained
Corinthian choirs to perform. It seems that he
spent most of his life at the court of Periander;
but one day conceiving a desire to visit Italy and
Sicily, he did so, and some time afterwards, having
made large sums of money there, detediintd to
return to Corinth. Accordingly he set sail from
Tarentum, chartering a vessel manned by Corinthians,
a people whom he thought, of all men, he could
trust. But when they reached the open sea the
erew conspired to secure his money by throwing
him overboard. . . . Putting on all his harper’s dress
and grasping his lyre. he took his stand in the stern-
sheets, and went through the Orthian or High-
pitched Nome from beginning to end. Then he
threw himself just as he was, dress and all, into the
sea. The crew continued their voyage to Corinth:
but meanwhile a dolphin, it seems, took Arion upon
his back and carried him ashore at Taenarum.
There is a small bronze votive-offering of Arion on
the promontory of Taenarum, consisting of a man
upon a dolphin’s back.

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LYRA GRAECA

Procl. Chrest. ap. Phot. Bibl. p. 320 Bek. εὕρε-
θῆναι δὲ τὸν διθύραμβον Πίνδαρος ἐν ἹΚορίνθῳ
λέγει: τὸν δὲ ἀρξάμενον. τῆς δῆς ᾿Αριστοκλῆς 1
᾿Αρίονά φησιν εἶναι, ὃς πρῶτος τὸν κύκλιον
ἤγαγε χορόν.

Euseb. Οἱ. 40. 4 ᾿Δρίων ἐγνωρίξετο ΔΙηθυμ-
ναῖος" οὗτος ἐπὶ δελφῖνος εἰς ᾿Γαίναρον διεσώθη.

Sch. Ar. dv. 1403 [κυκλιοδιδάσκαλον)] ᾿Αντί-
TAT POS καὶ Eddpovtos ... φασὶ ~ κυκλίους
χοροὺς στῆσαι πρῶτον Λασόν 1. . οἱ δὲ ἀρχαι-
ὁτεροι, “Ελλάνικος καὶ Atcalapyos, ᾿Αρίονα
τὸν ΔΙηθυμναῖον, Δικαίαρχος μὲν “ἐν τῷ Περὶ
Movorxov ᾿Αγώνων, Βλλώνικος δὲ ἐν τοῖς
ἹΚαρνεονίκαις."

Suid. ᾿Δρίων" ΔΙηθυμναῖος, λυρικός, Κυκλέως
υἱός, γέγονε κατὰ τὴν day Ὀλυμπιάδα. τινὲς δὲ
καὶ μαθητὴν᾽ Αλκμᾶνος ἰσέδρησεν αὐτόν. ἔγραψε
δὲ ἄσματα, προοίμια εἰς ἔπη . λέγετ at καὶ
τραγικοῦ τρόπου εὑρετὴς γενέσθαι, καὶ πρῶτος
χορὸν στῆσαι, καὶ διθύραμβον a ἦσαι καὶ ὀνομάσαι
τὸ ᾿ἐδόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ χοροῦ, καὶ 'Σατύρους εἰσενεγ-
κεῖν ἔμμετρα λέγοντας.

Vide Luc. D.M. 8, Strab. 15. 618, Paus, 5. 25.
Ael, Δ. 12. 45 quotes the hymn of thanks to

1 mss ’AptororéAns ° mss Κραναϊκοῖς

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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:

139

=== p162 ===
ΣΑΠΦΟΥ͂Σ
Βίος

Stob. Fi. 29. δὰ Αἰλιανοῦ' Σόλων ὁ ᾿Αθηναῖος
᾿Εξηκεστίδου παρὰ πότον τοῦ ἀδελφιδοῦ αὐτοῦ
μέλος τι Σαπφοῦς ἄσαντος, ἥσθη τῷ μέλει καὶ
προσέταξε τῷ μειρακίῳ διδάξαι αὐτόν. ἐρωτήσ-
αντος δέ τινος διὰ ποίαν αἰτίαν τοῦτο ἐσπόυδακεν,
ae ” « “ ἢ J μ Σ ,ὔ ᾽
δὸς ἔφη" ‘"Iva μαθὼν αὐτὸ ἀποθάνω.

Hdt. 3. 135 Ροδῶπις δὲ ἐς Αἴγυπτον ἀπίκετο
Ξάνθεω τοῦ Σαμίου κομίσαντος: ἀπικομένη δὲ
Kat ἐργασίην ἐλύθη χρημάτων μεγώλων ὑπὸ
avépos MutiAnvaiov Χαράζου τοῦ Σκαμαν-
δρωνύμου παιδὸς ἀδελφεοῦ δὲ Σαπφοῦς τῆς
μουσοποιοῦ. ... φιλέουσι δέ κως ἐν τῇ Ναυ-
κράτι ἐπαφρόδιτοι γίγνεσθαι αἱ ἑταῖραι" τοῦτο μὲν
γὰρ αὕτη τῆς πέρι λέγεται ὅδε ὁ ὃ λόγος οὕτω δή
TL κλεινὴ ἐγένετο ὡς καὶ πάντες οἱ “Ἕλληνες
‘Podwrios τὸ οὔνομα ἐξέμαθον... Χάραξος δὲ
ὡς λυσάμενος Ῥοδῶπιν ἀπενόστησε ἐς Δ] υτιλήνην,
ἐν μέλεϊ Σαπφὼ κατεκερτόμησέ μιν.

Ibid. 131. κατὰ "Ἄμασιν βασιλεύοντα ἦν ἀκμά-
ἕουσα ‘Podarts.

Str. 17. 808 [π. πυραμίδων |: “λέγεται δὲ τῆς
ἑταίρας τάφος γεγονὼς ὑπὸ τῶν ἐραστῶν, ἣν
Σαπφὼ μὲν ἡ τῶν μελῶν ποιήτρια καλεῖ Δωρίχαν,
ἐρωμένην τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτῆς Χαράξου γεγονυίαν,
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