LC control no. | nr2004011989 |
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Personal name heading | Arion, of Lesbos |
Special note | THIS 1XX FIELD CANNOT BE USED UNDER RDA UNTIL THIS RECORD HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND/OR UPDATED |
Found in | Arion, 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) |