ONATAS  , a

Greek sculptor of the time of the Persian wars, a member of the flourishing school of Aegina . Many of his works are mentioned by Pausanias; they included a Hermes carrying the ram, and a strange image of the Black Demeter made for the people of Phigalia; also some elaborate groups in bronze set up at Olympia and Delphi . For Hiero I., king of Syracuse, Onatas executed a votive chariot in bronze dedicated at Olympia . If we compare the descriptions of the works of Onatas given us by Pausanias with the well-known pediments of Aegina at Munich we shall find so close an agreement that we may safely take the pedimental figures as an index of the style of Onatas . They are manly, vigorous, athletic, showing great knowledge of the human form, but somewhat stiff and automaton-like .