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- poems. Herodotus reports that Onomacritus was hired by Pisistratus to compile the oracles of Musaeus, but that Onomacritus inserted forgeries of his own...
- Onomacritus is a genus of cicadas in the family Cicadidae. There is at least one described species in Onomacritus, O. sumatr****. "Browse Onomacritus"...
- labels (approximate date). Aristides, Athenian statesman (d. 468 BC) Onomacritus, Gr**** compiler of oracles (approximate date) (d. 480 BC) Pheidippides...
- poetry attributed to him was written in the sixth century BC by Onomacritus. Onomacritus was banished from Athens by Hipparchus for inserting something...
- Titans in Dionysos's dismemberment were said to have been composed by Onomacritus. Gr**** art and literature, as well as some patristic texts, indicate...
- reports that, during the reign of Peisistratus at Athens, the scholar Onomacritus collected and arranged the oracles of Musaeus but inserted forgeries...
- 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...
- 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...
- disappeared by the second century AD. An ancient oracle (written by Onomacritus) may have predicted this end. The Description of Greece says: The following...
- Theologiae Graecae 15 Gk text (Torres, pp. 15–6) Hesiod, Theogony 907; Onomacritus, fr.; Apollodorus, 1.3.1; Callimachus, Aetia fr. 6; Pausanias, 9.35.1;...