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Arion, of Lesbos

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Personal name headingArion, of Lesbos
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Found inArion, 2002
Classical mythology, 1999: p. 493-494 (Arion of Lesbos; musician who, according to Herodotus, traveled around the Greek world teaching Dionysiac rituals; when thrown overboard by dishonest sailors who wanted to steal his goods, he was saved by a dolphin, which carried him to safety)
Oxford class. dict., 1996: p. 158 (Arion; citharode from Methymna in Lesbos; spent most of his life at the court of Periander, who ruled 625-585 BC; said to have been thrown overboard when returning home from Sicily, but saved by a dolphin)