Abstract
HERODOTUS' STORY OF HOW the talented and original musical per- former and conductor Arion of Methymna was rescued from the sea and carried to dry land by a dolphin is of great interest because of the literary and historical methods he uses. 1 The story arises out of the siege of Miletus and is connected with it through Periander (1.20, 1.24.1, 7), but different readings have been presented in order to make a better con- nection with the immediate or wider context. 2 Questions have also been raised about the authenticity of Herodotus' inquiry and his own belief in the miracle. 3 His normal inquiry (historia) involves akoe (what he heard), opsis (what he saw), and gnome (his judgment). 4 He tells Arion's story mainly on the authority of the traditions of the Corinthians and Lesbians, whose agreement on it frames the story. 5 He supplements this akoe with
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