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Arion

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thumb|A musician riding a dolphin, on a Red-figure stamnos (360–340 BC) from Etruria. In this case the musician is an aulete rather than a kitharode, as he is playing the flute (aulos) rather than a kithara.thumb|Arion riding a Dolphin, by Albrecht Dürer (c. 1514)thumb|Arion on a Sea Horse, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1855)Arion (; ) was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb. The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Although notable for his musical inventions, Arion is c

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Arion was a male human poet, writer, citharode, and musician who lived from 700 BCE to 600 BCE. He wrote in Ancient Greek and is described as a figure of myth. His name in his native language is Ἀρίων. He died in Ancient Corinth.

His works are held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has been described by sources including the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, and Pauly–Wissowa.

A separate entity named Arion is a musical group from Finland. This group performs power metal and symph metal. Another distinct individual with the name Arion Sayão Romita has authored works such as *Comentarios aos prejulgados do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho* and *Contrato de Trabalho*.

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Person · Open Library

Works
18

Top works

  • Comentarios aos prejulgados do Tribunal Superior do Trabalho
  • Contrato de Trabalho
  • Direito do trabalho na futura constituição
  • Direito sindical brasileiro
  • O fascismo no direito do trabalho brasileiro

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
Finland
Active from
2011
power metalsymphonic metal

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
111,268
Total plays
1,663,814

Tags

Power metalsymphonic metalelectro housedubstepBrostep

There are multiple artists with this name: 1 Finnish melodic metal band Arion formed in 2011. Finland's newest melodic metal sensation Arion came out from the woodwork and dropped on the scene like a bomb. Comprised of a trio of 17 and 18 year old music students from Sibelius Lukio and their equally accomplished muso friends, Arion wrote their debut song “Lost” - a versatile piece of symphonic melodic metal - in the summer of 2012, entered it <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Arion">Read more

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Origins
  • The dithyramb
  • Kidnapping by pirates
  • Mythological parallels
  • Scholarly interpretations
  • Surviving fragment
  • In literature
  • In Astronomy
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|A musician riding a dolphin, on a Red-figure stamnos (360–340 BC) from Etruria. In this case the musician is an aulete rather than a kitharode, as he is playing the flute (aulos) rather than a kithara.thumb|Arion riding a Dolphin, by Albrecht Dürer (c. 1514)thumb|Arion on a Sea Horse, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1855)Arion (; ) was a kitharode in ancient Greece, a Dionysiac poet credited with inventing the dithyramb. The islanders of Lesbos claimed him as their native son, but Arion found a patron in Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Although notable for his musical inventions, Arion is chiefly remembered for the fantastic myth of his kidnapping by pirates and miraculous rescue by dolphins, a folktale motif.

== Origins == Arion was a native of Methymna in Lesbos, and, according to some mythological accounts, a son of Cyclon or of Poseidon and the nymph Oncaea. All traditions about him agree in describing him as a contemporary and friend of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. He appears to have spent a great part of his life at the court of Periander, but respecting his life and his poetical or musical productions, scarcely anything is known beyond the story of his escape from the sailors with whom he sailed from Sicily to Corinth.

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