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Onomacritus (c.
530 -
480 BCE), also known as
Onomacritos or
Onomakritos, was a
Greek chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant
Pisistratus in Athens. He is said to have prepared an edition of the
Homeric poems, and was an industrious collector, as well as a forger of old oracles and poems.
Herodotus reports that Onomacritus was hired by Pisistratus to compile the oracles of
Musaeus, but that Onomacritus inserted forgeries of his own that were detected by
Lasus of Hermione. As a result, Onomacritus was banished from
Athens by Pisistratus' son
Hipparchus. After the flight of the Pisistratids to
Persia, Onomacritus was reconciled with them. According to
Herodotus, Onomacritus induced
Xerxes I, the King of Persia, by his oracular responses, to decide upon his war with
Greece.
Pausanias attributes to Onomacritus certain poems forged under the name of
Musaeus (
1.22.7
). In explaining the presence of the
Titan Anytos at
Lycosura, he says that "Onomacritos took the name of the Titans from Homer and composed orgies for
Dionysus and made the Titans the actual agents in the sufferings of Dionysos" (Pausanias
8.37.5). Therefore, Onomacritos is responsible for inventing an important aspect of the mythology concerning the Titans.
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