Arion
Kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet · Writers · Lived 700 BC to 600 BC · aged 100
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Something wrong?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.
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Parc de Versailles, Bosquet des Dômes, Arion, Jean-Melchior Raon 01
Anonymous Arion fleeing buccaneers
4297 - Venezia - Palazzo ducale - Capitello 31 - Mostro - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto, 30-Jul-2008
Arion - Musée du Louvre Objets d'art OA 9115 ; RF 470
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Arion on a Dolphin MET DP825620About this person
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.
Writers born in the 700s BC 6
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