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Arion (lived 7th century BC)

Greek writer, reputedly the first to introduce choral works known as dithyrambs. He returned to the court of Periander of Corinth after visiting Italy and Sicily.

Legend records that he was saved from drowning by a dolphin, which was charmed by his song.
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But then there were some sceptical Greeks and Romans, who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their times, equally doubted the story of Hercules and the whale, and Arion and the dolphin; and yet their doubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts, for all that.
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