Arion of Méthymne
See also: Arion
Arion of Méthymne is a semi-legendary character semi-history, poet and Greek musician of seventh century BC
Biography
Born with Méthymne, in the island of Lesbos, he lives a long time at the court of Périandre, Tyran of Corinthe, before travelling in Sicily and Italy. Hérodote tells that it piles up great richnesses there and that with its return, the sailors decide to kill it to divide its goods. Before being thrown with the sea, Arion obtains to be able to play of the Cithare last once. It attracts by its songs a Dauphin and springs in the floods: the animal helps it and carries it to the course Ténare in Laconie.
To thank the gods, Arion then offers a bronze statue representing a man on a dolphin, rules that Pausanias sees at the time of its visit of Ténare. According to the Roman grammairien Plaster filling, the statue is in a temple devoted to Arion and comprises an inscription specifying that the anecdote takes seat at the time of the 29e Olympiade, the year when Arion gains the sicilian plays. The dolphin which saved the poet is arranged among the Constellation S: to see Dolphin (constellation) .
One looks at Arion like the inventor of the Dithyrambe”. The song still has course with, at the time of the Christian apologist Clément of Alexandria which denounces Arion, Amphion and Orphée like the first to have led “humanity in front of the idols. ”
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