Onomakritus
Onomakritos ( Greek Ὀνομάκριτος ; * around 530 BC; † around 480 BC) was a Greek chresmologist . As such, he was commissioned by Peisistratos to collect the oracles of Musaios .
Herodotus reports that Onomacritus was banished from Athens by Hipparchus , the son of Peisistratos , after Lasos from Hermione proved to him that a saying by Musaios had been forged , according to which the island of Lemnos would sink into the sea. After the Peisistratids themselves had to flee to the court of the Persian king Xerxes I , Onomakritus helped them to convince Xerxes of the favorable prospects of an invasion of Greece by means of an appropriate selection of oracle sayings favorable to the Persians.
A passage in Pausanias was interpreted to the effect that Onomakritus founded or at least reformed the cult celebrations of Dionysus Zagreus .
literature
- Philip Smith: Onomacritus . In: William Smith (Ed.): Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . tape 3 : Oarses-Zygia and Zygius . Little, Brown and Company, Boston 1870, p. 29–30 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Onomakritus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Onomacritos; Onomacritus; Onomacritus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek chresmologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 530 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 480 BC Chr. |