Onomacritus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Onomacritus the Athenian, active under the Pisistratids, to whom the poems falsely ascribed to Orpheus and Musaeus are actually attributed.
or Onomacritus at Athens;
Indeed, Onomacritus the Athenian, whose are said to be the poems ascribed to Orpheus, is found in the time of the rule of the Pisistratids, about the fiftieth Olympiad.
The Histories
Athenian diviner who compiled the oracles of Musaeus and, after being banished for forging one, joins the Pisistratidae in urging Xerxes to invade, reciting only favorable prophecies.
They had come up to Sardis with Onomacritus, an Athenian diviner who had set in order the oracles of Musaeus.
Now he had arrived at Susa with the Pisistratidae, and whenever he came into the king's presence they used lofty words concerning him and he recited from his oracles;