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Encyclopedia Britannica



ONESICRITUS, or ONESICRATES

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 112 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
ONESICRITUS, or ONESICRATES , of Aegina or Astypaleia (probably simply the " old city " of Aegina), one of the writers on Alexander the
Great
 . At an advanced age he became a pupil of
Diogenes
  the Cynic, and gained such repute as a student of philosophy that he was selected by Alexander to hold a conference with the Indian Gymnosophists. When the
fleet
  was constructed on the Hydaspes, Onesicritus was appointed
chief
  pilot (in his vanity he calls himself
commander
 ), and in this capacity accompanied Nearchus on the voyage from the mouth of the Indus to the Persian gulf. He wrote a diffuse biography of Alexander, which in addition to historical details contained descriptions of the countries visited, especially India. After the king's death, Onesicritus appears to have completed his
work
  at the court of Lysimachus, king of Thrace. Its historical value was considered small, it being avowedly a panegyric, and contemporaries (including even . Alexander himself) regarded it as untrustworthy. Strabo especially takes Onesicritus to task for his exaggeration and love of the marvellous. His Para plus (or description of the coasts of India) probably formed part of the
work
 , and, incorporated by Juba II. of Mauretania with the accounts of
coasting
  voyages by Nearchus and other geographers, and circulated by him under the name of Onesicritus, was largely used by Pliny.
See Arrian, Anabasis, vi. 2; Indira, 32;
Diogenes
  Laertius vi. 75; Plutarch, Alexander, 46, 65; Strabo xv. 698; Pliny, Nat. Hist. vi. 26; Aulus Gellius ix. 4; fragments and life in C. W. Muller, appendix to F. Dubner's Arrian (1846); monograph by F. Lilie (
Bonn
 , 1864) ; E. H. Bunbury, Hist. of Ancient Geography, 1. (1879) ; Meier in Ersch and Gruber's Allgemeine Encyclopadie.


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