Onomaris
Onomaris (Ονομαριξ) is the name of a legendary Celtic princess. In the anonymous Greek work with the Latin title Tractatus de Mulieribus Claris in bello (“ Treatise on famous women warriors”), also Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci (“Writings of wonderful events among the Greeks”), partly from the 5th or 6th century BC. It is called. Whether it actually existed is historically uncertain.
Because of her apparently unceltic name, Kurt Tomaschitz suspects that it could have been a Scordisk woman . Koch adopts a compound Celtic word, the second component of which would be equated with Celtic * maro , Old Irish már, mór (all for "large"); for Ono- there is currently no reliable interpretation.
When, during a severe famine, which particularly affected the lower classes of the population, no nobleman could be found who wanted to take over the leadership of an emigration, Onomaris is said to have led her tribe from their old homeland across the Danube to southeastern Europe. She conquered new land from the local population, built an empire, supported the new settlers with her personal fortune and ruled there as queen.
See also
literature
- Helmut Birkhan : Celts. Attempt at a complete representation of their culture. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-7001-2609-3 .
- David Rankin: Celts and the classic world. Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003, ISBN 0-203-44198-2 , p. 252.
Web links
- John T. Koch: Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia. Volume 1, ABC-CLIO, 2006, ISBN 1-85109-440-7 . (books.google.ch)