Onomacritus (Greek: Ὀνομάκριτος; c. 530 – c. 480 BCE), also known as Onomacritos and Onomakritos, was a Greek chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens and prepared an edition of the Homeric poems. He was a collector and forger of oracles and poems.
poems. Herodotus reports that Onomacritus was hired by Pisistratus to compile the oracles of Musaeus, but that Onomacritus inserted forgeries of his own...
Titans in Dionysos's dismemberment were said to have been composed by Onomacritus. Greek art and literature, as well as some patristic texts, indicate...
poetry attributed to him was written in the sixth century BC by Onomacritus. Onomacritus was banished from Athens by Hipparchus for inserting something...
reports that, during the reign of Peisistratus at Athens, the scholar Onomacritus collected and arranged the oracles of Musaeus but inserted forgeries...
as a good-luck charm. Epimenides is also reckoned with Melampus and Onomacritus as one of the founders of Orphism. According to Diogenes Laërtius, Epimenides...
innovations in the dithyramb hymn. According to Herodotus, Lasus also exposed Onomacritus's forgeries of the oracles of Musaeus. Lasus is recorded to have written...
poets Nonnus Nossis Olen (poet), early poet from Lycia who went to Delos Onomacritus, (c. 530 – 480 BC), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, a chresmologue...
them the names of Aglaia, Euphrosyne and lovely Thalia. The poem of Onomacritus agrees with this account. Antimachus, while giving neither the number...
the oracles which were current under his name have been attributed to Onomacritus. Extant sources provide no information on this Bakis. However, according...
previously undiscovered author. Literary forgery has a long history. Onomacritus (c. 530 – 480 BCE) is among the most ancient known literary forgers....
historian Onesilas of Salamis – rebel Onomarchus – general of the Phocians Onomacritus – forger Orestes of Macedon – King of Macedon Origen – theologian Oxylus...
individuals of unknown identity, such as Scythes, Simonides, Clearistus, Onomacritus, Democles, Academus, Timagoras, Demonax and Argyris and "Boy". Poems...
Horváth, 1912 c g Ollanta Distant, 1905 i c g Oncotympana Stål, 1870 c g Onomacritus Distant, 1912 c g Onoralna Boulard, 1996 i c g Orapa Distant, 1905 c...
Stål, 1861 i c g Ollanta Distant, 1905 i c g Oncotympana Stål, 1870 c g Onomacritus Distant, 1912 c g Onoralna Boulard, 1996 i c g Orapa Distant, 1905 c...
Stål, 1866 c g Nabalua Moulton, 1923 c g Neocicada Kato, 1932 i c g b Onomacritus (cicada) Distant, 1912 Puranoides Moulton, 1917 c g Taiwanosemia Matsumura...
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