Note 26 — INTRODUCTION
Reading edition
Cf. Haigh, The Tragic Drama of the Greeks (1896), p. 17, n. 1, and Pickard-Cambridge in Classical Review, XXVI (1912), 54. It is also possible that Arion’s employment of a new generic term (δράματα) for his dithyrambs is alluded to. Herodotus may have taken it as a matter of course that everyone knew what this new name was and consequently failed to mention it, thus leaving the passage ambiguous.