Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley)

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XXIII. Periander, who disclosed the oracle's answer to Thrasybulus, was the son of Cypselus, and sovereign of Corinth. The Corinthians say (and the Lesbians agree) that the most marvellous thing that happened to him in his life was the landing on Taenarus of Arion of Methymna, brought there by a dolphin. This Arion was a lyre-player second to none in that age; he was the first man whom we know to compose and name the dithyramb¹ which he afterwards taught at Corinth.

¹ The dithyramb was a kind of dance-music particularly associated with the cult of Dionysus.

Further comments from W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus:
book 1 (general note)
book 1 (general note)
book 1, chapter 23 (general note)

Cross references from Perseus Encyclopedia:
herodotus-3 [Herodotus and Homer (3)]

Cross references from Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache (ed. Ildar Ibraguimov):
401 [Entstehung des attributiven Satzverhältnisses.]
420 [Der Genetiv zugleich als Vertreter des Ablativs.]

Cross references from T. G. Tucker, Commentary on Thucydides: Book 8:
8, 68, 1

Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
23, 247 [Book 23 (Ps)]

Cross references from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898):
taenarum [Taenărum]

Cross references from Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek:
42, 539 [Article with appositive proper names. ]

Cross references from Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes:
* [Olympian Odes]

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Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
OCLC: 1610641
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