# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arion
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:42:25.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arion"
name: "Arion"
slug: "arion"
description: "A poet who supposedly rode a dolphin to shore after being tossed overboard by pirates — but before the legend swallowed him whole, Arion had already changed Greek music by inventing the dithyramb, the choral hymn that became the scaffolding for drama itself."
tagline: "Kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Parc_de_Versailles%2C_Bosquet_des_D%C3%B4mes%2C_Arion%2C_Jean-Melchior_Raon_01.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "-700"
deathDate: "-600"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           60.54
  momentum:             7.838989557739557
  historical:           22.75905333333333
  currentAttention:     25.73208041958041
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Writer / Author"
    slug: "writer-author"
  - name: "Poetry"
    slug: "poetry"
  - name: "Literature"
    slug: "literature"
  - name: "Music"
    slug: "music"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arion von Lesbos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariono_de_Metimno"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Արիոն (բանաստեղծ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arione di Metimna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "არიონი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion"
    title: "Arion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion"
    title: "Arion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rion"
    title: "Árion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arion"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arion"
    title: "Arion"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أريون (أسطورة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Ancient Greece knew Arion as a kitharode, a singer who played the kithara, and the islanders of Lesbos called him their own. He found his footing under Periander, the tyrant of Corinth, and there he engineered something new: the dithyramb, a Dionysiac choral form that hadn't existed before. The invention mattered — it seeded what would become theatrical tradition. But the work got buried under the story: pirates, a leap into the sea, a dolphin that carried him home. The folktale stuck harder than the music, and that's how history filed him.