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	Onesicritus - LoveToKnow 1911
		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.
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	Onesicritus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Onesicritus, or Onesicrates, of Aegina or Astypaleia (probably simply the old city of Aegina) was 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 River to the Persian Gulf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onesicritus (273 words)

	Diogenes Laertius: Life of Onesicritus, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BY DIOGENES LAERTIUS, TRANSLATED BY C.D. ONESICRITUS is called by some authors an Aeginetan, but Demetrius the Magnesian affirms that he was a native of Astypalaea.
		For Xenophon joined in the expedition of Cyrus, and Onesicritus in that of Alexander; and Xenophon wrote the Cyropaedia, and Onesicritus wrote an account of the education of Alexander.
		Xenophon, too, wrote a Panegyric on Cyrus, and Onesicritus one on Alexander.
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		Onesicritus reckons each side of the included island, which is of a triangular shape, at 2000 stadia; and the breadth of the river, where it is separated into two mouths, at about 200 stadia.(3) He calls the island Delta, and says that is as large as the Delta of Egypt; but this is a mistake.
		Onesicritus says that the greatest part of the coast in this quarter abounds with swamps, particularly at the mouths of the river, which is owing to the mud, the tides, and the want of land breezes; for these parts are chiefly under the influence of winds blowing from the sea.
		Onesicritus approached, accosted him, and told him that he had been sent by the king, who had heard the fame of his wisdom, and that he was to give an account of his interview, if there were no objection, he was ready to listen to his discourse.
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	Onesicritus: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		(Onesicritus was appointed chief pilot (in his vanity he calls himself commander), EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Onesicritus appears to have completed his work at the court of Lysimachus Lysimachus quick summary:
		[For more, click on this link] especially takes Onesicritus to task for his exaggeration and love of the marvellous.
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	Onesicritus - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary)
		Onesicritus of Astypalaea was a member of Alexander the Great's expedition.
		He was the steersman of Alexander's flagship during the voyage down the Indus, and he took the same role during the exploratory voyage from the Indus to the Persian Gulf in 325 BC.
		In this position he acted as second in command to Nearchus; the two men appear not to have got on.
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		Onesicritus, commander of the fleet, wrote that bigger and more warlike elephants are produced there than in India.'[[1]]
		The author has 'attempted to bring together the references to Taprobane in Greek and Latin texts for the purpose of examining their value as sources for the study of ancient Sri Lanka' (p.
		The Greek and Latin texts themselves, beginning with two references to Onesicritus, are given at the end of the book (pp.
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	The Gymnosophists
		Such was the interest among the Macedonians and Greeks that Alexander dispatched one of their own philosophers, Onesicritus, to India to investigate the beliefs and lifestyle of the gymnosophists and debate with them on theological issues of the day.
		Alexander himself then travelled to India and is reported to have met some of the gymnosophists himself.
		It is known that Onesicritus consulted with a number of naked Hindu Brahmins but there were also other religious movements, typically off-shoots of Hinduism, present in India during the 4th century BCE who practised nudity.
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	Alexander and the Brahmans
		In India, Alexander the Great (or his representative Onesicritus) had an interview with the Brahman sages, who lived near Taxila.
		The story of the interview and the story of the death of Calanus are described in several sources, such as Strabo's Geography 15.1.61, 62-64, which was translated by Horace Leonard Jones.
		Onesicritus says that he conversed with one of these sophists, Calanus, who accompanied the kind the king as far as Persis and died in accordance with the ancestral custom, being placed upon a pyre and burned up [2].
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	Religions of India 2
		HEN Alexander the Great, having conquered most of his world, was resting with his armies on the Indus Plain in the pleasant spring of 326 BC, he turned his attention one day to a group of Indian holy men sitting naked in the sun, oblivious to the world around them.
		Curious, the great conqueror dispatched Onesicritus, one of his brightest young officers, to find out what manner of men they were and what wisdom they had to impart.
		The holy men told Onesicritus that to try to pass on their knowledge to his master through interpreters would be like trying to make water flow clear through many layers of mud.
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	Tennent's Ceylon 1860. v1_p5_c01
		ONESICRITUS, as he is quoted by Strabo and Pliny, propagated exaggerated statements as to the dimensions of the island
		291, says that Onesicritus, the pilot of Alexander's fleet, "avoit visité la Taprobane pendant un nouveau voyage qu'il eut ordre de faire." If so, he was the first European on record who had seen the island; but I have searched unsuccessfully for any authority to sustain this statement of GOSSELIN.
		The animal referred to by the informants of Onesicritus was the dugong, whose form and attitudes gave rise to the fabled mermaid.
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		Both Plutarch and Strabo (15.1.64) quote Onesicritus' account of his meeting with the gymnosophists.
		In Strabo's version Onesicritus tells how Alexander respected Indian custom and therefore did not attempt to summon the gymnosophists.
		In both texts Calanus requests that Onesicritus strip before joining his gymnosophist disciples.
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	Thalestris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, several of Alexander's biographers of Alexander totally dispute the claim, including the highly regarded secondary source, Plutarch.
		In his writing he makes mention of when Alexander's secondary naval commander, Onesicritus, was reading the Amazon passage of his Alexander history to King Lysimachus of Thrace who was on the original expedition, the king smiled at him and said "And where was I, then?"
		This page was last modified 23:24, 16 April 2006.
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	The 'good' sources on Alexander the Great
		Onesicritus is not heard of during the first half of Alexander's campaign and makes his first appearance in our sources in 326, when he translated the conversation between Alexander and the Indian sages at Taxila.
		During the voyage to the south, Onesicritus was the helmsman of Alexander's royal ship; when a large part of the Macedonian army had to be shipped back to Babylonia, he was also present.
		It seems to have consisted of two parts: the first half contained a description of India's borders, size, rivers, population, castes, animals -especially elephants-, armies and customs; the second half described Nearchus' voyage home.
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		Onesicritus, commander of the fleet, wrote that bigger and more warlike elephants are produced there than in India.
		Islands are good for story-telling, especially when it comes to stories about marvellous creatures and other natural phenomena, as the elder Pliny well knew and as Emilio Gabba showed in an important article nearly two decades ago.
		[7] Pliny himself made extensive use of Hellenistic sources such as Onesicritus, Megasthenes and Eratosthenes and today is important for attempts to reconstruct now lost works.
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	Authors of Alexander histories
		The 'other' account of the story of Callisthenes being denied a royal kiss for not performing proskynesis in Arrian 4.12.3-5 is likely to have been derived from Chares.
		The work was read by Duris, Onesicritus and, probably, Cleitarchus.
		This may be in part because of the influence of his rival, Nearchus.
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		An episode of particular interest here was the encounter with a group of Indian ascetics known as the “naked philosophers”.
		Alexander sent his staff writer Onesicritus to interview them, a task Onesicritus described as involving three interpreters and thus “like getting water to run clear through mud”.
		Across the River Indus lay a hostile kingdom ruled by Porus.
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	Ancient History Sourcebook: Pliny: Natural History 6.96-111. (On India)
		Opposite is Arabia, with a coastline 1500 miles in length, and on its other side Arabia is encompassed by the second bay, named the Arabian Gulf; the ocean flowing into this is called the Azanian Sea.
		[109] Onesicritus and Nearchus write that from the river Indus to the Persian Gulf and from there to Babylon by the marshes'of the Euphrates is a voyage of 1700 miles.
		In an angle of Carmania are the Turtle-eaters, who roof their houses with the shells and live on the flesh of turtles.
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	Cathay and the way thither--Vol. 1 / Page 55
		The other mention is found in a passage, or rather two passages, of Strabo.
		These also allude only to the longevity of the Seres, said to exceed two hundred years, and Strabo at the time seems to be quoting from Onesicritus (thriller's Strabo, xv, i, 34 and 37).
		Geography, article Serica, would lead one by its expressions to suppose that Aristotle had spoken of that count/7, which of course he does not.
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	Arrian (arrian resources) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Arrian was able to use sources which are now lost, such as the contemporary works by Callisthenes (the nephew of Alexander's tutor Aristotle), Onesicritus, Nearchus and Aristobulus, and the slightly later work of Cleitarchus.
		However, he did remain in command of the fleet for the voyage from the Indus to the Persian Gulf, which he recorded in detail (and which was used extensively for Arrian’s Indica).
		Its author is usually known as pseudo-Callisthenes, although in the Latin translation by Julius Valerius Alexander Polemius (beginning of the 4th century) it is ascribed to a certain Aesopus; Aristotle, Antisthenes, Onesicritus and Arrian have also been credited with the authorship.
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	Bucephalus - by E. Baynham
		Yet Bucephalas' maturity may thus help explain Onesicritus' tradition on the circumstances and the horse's age at his death in 326 B.C. which although unequivocally accepted by Arrian,[[30]] has often been dismissed in modern times as romantic fabrication.[[31]]
		He does not name Onesicritus as his source at 5.
		1 [1993], 226-75) may have motivated him to accept Onesicritus' evidence; perhaps he did not like to think that the king would have subjected his elderly and beloved horse to yet another fight.
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