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Engel, C - Arion of Lesbos
Identifier
003366
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Mr Engel has taken the story literally and indeed it may be true. But we have to be a little careful because of the symbolism
A description of the experience
Musical Myths and Facts Volume II – C Engel 1876
About 625 BC Arion of Lesbos, kithara player singer and poet, invented the Dithyrambs or hymns of Bacchus and improved the chorus singing. He is recorded to have healed sick persons by means of music. The same is also recorded of Menias, a Greek musician who lived about this time