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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 29 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Some writers have hastily taken this as a proof that the true author of the still extant Orphic hymns was Onomacritus, or else, as others more cautiously put it, that Onomacritus was one of the authors of them, and that this hymn at least is to be ascribed to him.
		That Onomacritus, however, did publish poems under the name of Orpheus, as well as of Musaeus, is probable from several testimonies, among which is that of Aristotle, who held that there never was such a poet as Orpheus, and that the poems known under his name were fabricated partly by Cercops, and partly by Onomacritus.
		Of what character that worship was, may be seen from the statement of Pausanias, that " Onomacritus, taking from Homer the name of the Titans, composed (or, established, ) the Titans as the authors of the sufferings of Dionysus." (Paus.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2363.html (841 words)

	Onomacritus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herodotus reports that Onomacritus was hired by the tyrant Pisistratus to compile the oracles of Musaeus, but that Onomacritus inserted forgeries of his own that were detected by Lasus of Hermione.
		Later on in Herodotus's narrative, the Pisistratids use Onomacritus's misleading prophecies to flatter the King of Persia.
		Pausanias attributes certain forged poems in Orpheus's name to Onomacritus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Onomacritus (106 words)

	ANISTORITON Journal of History, Archaeology, ArtHistory: Internet Messages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		According to Herodotus, there are stories that, in the recension of the Homeric poems, Onomacritus was in the practice of altering the text with his own interpolations.
		Onomacritus was later reconciled with the followers of Peisistratus, the Peisistratids, whom he eventually joined in exile in Persia, after they too had been expelled from Athens.
		Onomacritus was also purportedly the composer of Orphic hymn.
	www.anistor.co.hol.gr /english/enback/m043.htm (1234 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Musaeus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A Titanomachia and Theogonia are also attributed to him by Gottfried Kinkel (Epicorum graecorum fragmenta, 1878).
		Herodotus reports that, during the reign of Pisistratus at Athens, the scholar Onomacritus was charged with compiling the oracles of Musaeus, but that he inserted forgeries of his own devising, which were detected by Lasus of Hermione.
		The second Musaeus was an Ephesian attached to the court of the kings of Pergamon, who wrote a Perseis, and poems on Eumenes and Attalus I (Suidas s.v.).
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Musaeus (293 words)

	A Dissertation on the Life and Theology of Orpheus: Section III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gesner adds, that it does not appear probable to him that Onomacritus would dare to invent all he writ, since Orpheus must necessarily, at that time, have been in great repute, and a variety of his verses in circulation: and he concludes with observing that the objection
		Now Onomacritus calls Hercules and Vulcan, Καρτεροχειρ, or strong-handed; and he celebrates Hercules and Mercury as "having an almighty heart." ϖατκρατες ἦτορ ἔχῶν.
		For the Dogmata contained in them were indeed his,, but Onomacritus is reported to have put them into verse.
	allstarz.hollywood.com /religioustext/cla/hoo/hoo04.htm (2693 words)

	HELLENIC COSMOGONY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unfortunately the Orphic texts have not been preserved in full and except for a big extant part of "Argonautica" and the Orphic Hymns the rest of the preserved texts are fragments of Orpheas' teaching which were saved in texts of later writers (Clemes Alexandreus, Proclus etc.).
		The answer to this question is the severe punishment of Onomacritus (he was exiled) who tried to insert a few of his own verses in the original Orphic texts.
		In the language of the Orphic texts one can recognize the colour of the Homeric language but there are also idioms of later years so that the texts could be read and understood by the initiated of that time.
	www.greece.org /poseidon/work/argonautika/cosmo2_2.html (269 words)

	orpheus and the development of the dionysiac myth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We learn from Herodotus of a certain Onomacritus, "an oraclemonger, and the same who set forth the prophecies of Musaeus in their order," and who was "banished from Athens by Hipparchus," because he was caught in the act of corrupting the older writings attributed to Musaeus.
		Together with the Zagreus-Titan element, introduced by Onomacritus late in the sixth or early in the fifth century, additional elements of Egyptian myth and ritual were incorporated with the Greek Dionysus.
		Orphism became a systematic soteriology designed to effect the salvation of a race otherwise irretrievably lost in sin and requiring regeneration because their souls are debased and imprisoned in sinful bodies.
	geocities.com /essenecx/no_6_orphean_reconstruction_of_dionysus.htm (3625 words)

	Bakis - LoveToKnow 1911
		The Arcadian was said to have cured the women of Sparta of a fit of madness.
		Many of the oracles which were current under his name have been attributed to Onomacritus.
		This page was last modified 12:11, 25 Aug 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bakis (120 words)

	Cosmos and Logos:Life and Theology of Orpheus
		The fourth Orpheus was of Crotonia, who flourished in the time of Pisistratus, about the fiftieth Olympiad; and is doubtless the same Onomacritus the author of these hymns.
		And Scaliger well observes, in his notes co these hymns, that they ought rather to be called initiations, because they contain only invocations of the Gods, such as the initiated in mysteries are accustomed to use; but they do not celebrate the nativities, actions, &c.
		Now Onomacritus calls Hercules and Vulcan, Καρτεροχειρ, or strong-handed; and he celebrates Hercules and Mercury as "having an almighty heart." ϖατκρατες ἦτορ ἔχῶν.
	www.cosmosandlogos.com /category/000083.php (10464 words)

	The Baldwin Project: The Story of the Persian War by Alfred J. Church
		These had with them one Onomacritus, a man of Athens, that was a soothsayer, and one that had set in order the prophecies of Musæus.
		Once, indeed, there had been enmity between the son of Pisistratus and this Onomacritus; for Hipparchus had banished him from Athens, having found that he had added to the prophecies of Musæus a certain prophecy how that an island which lies near unto Lemnos should one day be swallowed up in the sea.
		Thus did [75] Onomacritus make much of his prophecies, and the sons of Pisistratus and the sons of Aleuas set forth their opinions to the same purpose.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=church&book=persian&story=preparation (2810 words)

	ANF02. Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Athenagoras, Theophilus, and Clement of Alexandria (Entire) \| ...
		Now, Linus was the teacher of Hercules, but Hercules preceded the Trojan war by one generation; and this is manifest from his son Tlepolemus, who served in the army against Troy.
		And Orpheus lived at the same time as Hercules; moreover, it is said that all the works attributed to him were composed by Onomacritus the Athenian, who lived during the reign of the Pisistratids, about the fiftieth Olympiad.
		Amphion, since he preceded the siege of Troy by two generations, forbids our collecting further particulars about him for those who are desirous of information.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/anf02.iii.ii.xli.html (339 words)

	Herodotus - The Histories - Page 1038
		For, in the first place, it chanced that messengers arrived from Thessaly into Greece, sent by the Aleuadae, Thessalian kings, to invite Xerxes into Greece, and to promise him all the assistance which it was in their power to give.
		And further, the Pisistratidae, who had come up to Susa, held the same language as the Aleuadae, and worked upon him even more than they did, by means of Onomacritus of Athens, an oracle-monger, and the same who set forth the prophecies of Musaeus in their order.
		And he took care to pass over all that spoke of disaster to the barbarians, while bringing forward the passages which promised them the greatest success.
	www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_1038.htm (363 words)

	Herodotus: Book Seven
		The Persians are urged to invade by the Thessalian kings and the (now exiled) Pisistratids.
		Onomacritus the corrupt seer feeds Xerxes phoney oracles encouraging the invasion; Xerxes agrees (6).
		Xerxes addresses the council of Persian leaders, and states his reasons for invading Greece: revenge, gain, living up to the glorious Persian tradition.
	academic.reed.edu /Humanities/Hum110/Hdt/Hdt7.html (2909 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An Athenian who lived at the court of Peisistratus, he collected and edited the oracles of Musaeus and was exposed by Lasus for forgery.
		On the expulsion of the Peisistratids, Onomacritus went to Susa and presented Xerxes with oracles favorable to an invasion of Greece.
		He was later thought to have been author of other poems.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAG0724 (81 words)

	Courses: 2003 Fall: CLST1003: Week 10 - Study Questions
		But Darius died shortly after this was resolved, so he couldn't punish the Athenians.
		The Pisistratids and Onomacritus were lobbying Xerxes to continue with the attack.
		They shared the ocracles which confirmed that he should attacked and hid the unfavorable ones with Xerxes.
	www.jazzhaven.com /Detailed/9.html (2838 words)

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		Any prophecy which implied a setback to the Persian cause he would carefully omit, choosing for quotation only those which promised the brightest triumphs, describing to Xerxes how it was fore-ordained that the Hellespont should be bridged by a Persian, and how the army would march from Asia into Greece.
		Subjected, therefore, to this double pressure, from Onomacritus’ oracles on the one side, and the advice of the Pisistratidae and Aleuadae on the other, Xerxes gave in and allowed himself to be persuaded to undertake the invasion of Greece.
		After the conquest of Egypt, when he was on the point of taking in hand the expedition against Athens, Xerxes called a conference of the leading men in the country, to find out their attitude towards the war and explain to them his own wishes.
	www.brown.edu /Courses/CL0070/Her_Imp.doc (3756 words)

	History of Herodotus by Herodotus
		For, in the first place, it chanced that messengers arrived from Thessaly, sent by the Aleuadae, Thessalian kings, to invite Xerxes into Greece, and to promise him all the assistance which it was in their power to give.
		And further, the Pisistratidae, who had come up to Susa, held the same language as the Aleuadae, and worked upon him even more than they, by means of Onomacritus of Athens, an oracle-monger, and the same who set forth the prophecies of Musaeus in their order.
		First, however, in the year following the death of Darius, he marched against those who had revolted from him; and having reduced them, and laid all Egypt under a far harder yoke than ever his father had put upon it, he gave the government to Achaeamenes, who was his own brother, and son to Darius.
	www.4literature.net /Herodotus/History_of_Herodotus/132.html (1235 words)

	CSAD Newsletter No. 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This paper dealt with the author's new edition of the Orphic fragments, which will include testimonia and fragments from Orpheus, Musaeus, Epimenides, Onomacritus and Linus, to be published in Leipzig, in the Biblioteca Teubneriana series.
		The author considers the following to be Orphic fragments: a) Verse fragments or prose references assigned by the source either to Orpheus or to ta Orphika.
		These are of three types: a) New inscriptions or papyri (e.g., Theogony from the Derveni Papyrus, gold leaves from Hipponion, Pelinna, Entella or Pherae, etc.); b) Fragments transmitted by manuscripts, not taken into account by Kern in his edition; and c) Texts derived either from new readings or from reconstructions made from prose references.
	www.csad.ox.ac.uk /csad/Newsletters/Newsletter6/Bernabe.html (309 words)

	Random House \| Books \| The Book of Lost Books by Stuart Kelly
		To this end, he employed a writer called Onomacritus, who undertook the task.
		On the surface, Onomacritus seemed to be an ideal choice; he had, after all, already edited the poems and oracles of Musaeus.
		But, Herodotus informs us, there was a less professional side to the man. Lasus of Hermione, who is credited with teaching the lyric poet Pindar, had accused Onomacritus of misattribution, and even forgery, in his edition of Musaeus—brazenly importing his own words.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400062973&view=excerpt (2309 words)

	Mark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the center Dionysus and Ariadne ascend to heaven in the chariot of the sun.
		In the sixth century BCE the Orphic poet Onomacritus rewrote the story of Dionysus and introduced the motif of the divine child killed and eaten by the 12 Titans.
		In so doing he brought the myth into conformity with the astrological motif of the one soul of the world manifesting in 12 acrhetypes.
	home1.gte.net /deleyd/religion/mark.html (1791 words)

	Athens: Its Rise and Fall, by Edward Bulwer Lytton
		The family and partisans of the Pisistratidae had fixed themselves in Susa, and the Greek subtlety and spirit of enterprise maintained and confirmed, for that unprincipled and able faction, the credit they had already established at the Persian court.
		Onomacritus, an Athenian priest, formerly banished by Hipparchus for forging oracular predictions, was now reconciled to the Pisistratidae, and resident at Susa.
		Presented to the king as a soothsayer and prophet, he inflamed the ambition of Xerxes by garbled oracles of conquest and fortune, which, this time, it was not the interest of the Pisistratidae to expose.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/6/1/5/6156/6156-h/vol2.htm (16250 words)

	The Invisible Basilica: Orpheus
		Orphism was the first of the organized Hellenic Mystery Schools, and one of the earliest of the fully-developed religious/metaphysical "systems." It developed in the 6th century b.c.e.
		and was centered around the teachings attributed to Orpheus as transmitted by a priest named Onomacritus.
		These were set forth primarily in 24 books of invocatory hymns and included the cosmogony described under Dionysus.
	www.hermetic.com /sabazius/orpheus.htm (792 words)

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		Jane Austen apparently laid the groundwork for a history entitled "The Magnificent Adventures and Intriguing Romances of the House of Saxe Cobourg," but died instead.
		Occasionally Kelly gets lost inside his sentences; it's anyone's guess what he's ranting about early in the book when he repeats the accusation by Lasus of Hermione that Onomacritus might have been guilty of misattribution, nay forgery, in his edition of Musaeus.
		In other places, he can turn pedantic; discussing the language of the "Iliad," he writes: "Predominantly in the Ionic dialect, it contains traces of the Aeolic, hints of Arcado-Cypriot." Mr.
	home.comcast.net /~gods1216/lostbooks.html (933 words)

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