Arion Singing Society

411 Danbury Road, New Milford, CT 06776

860.354.7593

About

Webster's New World Dictionary defines Arion as the following:
ARION: Greek musician and dramatic poet of LESBOS flourished 625 B.C.
           Gave artistic form to the DITHYRAMB

Dithyramb: Passionately lyrical Hymn in honor of DIONYSOS - probably first sung at feasts for the gods - given choral from by ARION. (DIONYSOS - Greek God of Wine & revelry; Romans called him Bacchus)
Lesbos: Ancient name for Greek Island "Mytilini" in the Aegean Sea - famed for School of Poets in the 7th Century B.C.

Note that this is very different from:
ARYAN: (Noble, Lord) Used as a tribal name to distinguish from indigenous races; Airya-nam = IRAN; akin to Greek aristos, best.
It has no validity as an ethnological term; although it has been so used, notoriously by the Nazi régime to mean: a caucasian of non-Jewish descent, "a Nordic" etc.