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ONOMACRITUS (c. 530-480 B.C.)

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

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC
ONOMACRITUS (c. 530-480 B.C.) , seer, priest and poet of Attica. His importance lies in his connexion with the religious movements in Attica during the 6th century B.C. He had
great
  influence on the development of the Orphic religion and mysteries, and was said to have composed a poem on initiatory
rites
 . The works of
Musaeus
 , the legendary founder of Orphism in Attica, are said to have been reduced to order (if not actually written) by him (Clem. Alex. Stromata, i, p. 143 [3971; Pausanias i. 22, 7). He was in high favour at the
court
  of the Peisistratidae till he was banished by Hipparchus for making additions of his own in an oracle of
Musaeus
 . When the Peisistratidae were themselves expelled and were living in Persia, he furnished them with oracles encouraging
Xerxes
  to invade
Greece
  and restore the tyrants in Athens (
Herodotus
  vii. 6). He is also said to have been employed by
Peisistratus
  in editing the Homeric poems, and to have introduced interpolations of his own (e.g. a passage in the episode of the visit of Odysseus to the world below). According to Pausanias (viii. 31, 3; 37, 5; ix. 35, 5) he was also the author of poems on mythological subjects.
See F. W. Ritschl, " Onomakritos von Athen," in his Opuscula, i. (1866), and p. 35 of the same volume; U. von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff, " Homerische Untersuchungen" (pp. 199-226 on the Orphic
interpolation
  in Odyssey, X 566631), in Kiessling-Mollendorff, Philologische Untersuchungen, Heft 7 (1884).


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