See also:

• ONOMACRITUS (c. 530-480 B.C.)

ONOMACRITUS (c. 530-480 B.C.)  , seer, See also:

• PRIEST (Ger. Priester, Fr. pretre)

priest and poet of See also:

• ATTICA

Attica . His importance lies in his connexion with the religious movements in Attica during the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He had See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence on the development of the Orphic See also:

• RELIGION
• RELIGION, FOLKLORE, CUSTOM

religion and mysteries, and was said to have composed a poem on initiatory See also:

• RITES

rites . The See also:

• WORKS

works of See also:

• MUSAEUS

Musaeus, the legendary founder of Orphism in Attica, are said to have been reduced to See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order (if not actually written) by him (Clem . Alex . Stromata, i, p . 143 [3971; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias i . 22, 7) . He was in high favour at the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court of the Peisistratidae till he was banished by See also:

• HIPPARCHUS (fl. 146-126 B.c.)

Hipparchus for making additions of his own in an See also:

• ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

oracle of Musaeus . When the Peisistratidae were themselves expelled and were living in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, he furnished them with oracles encouraging See also:

• XERXES (the Greek form of the Pers. Khshayarsha; Old Testament Ahasverus, Akhashverosh—i.e. Ahasuerus (q.v.)—with wrong vocalization and substitution of y for v, instead of Akhshavarsh; in Aramaic inscriptions and papyri from Egypt the name is written Khs

Xerxes to invade See also:

• GREECE

Greece and restore the tyrants in See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens (See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus vii . 6) . He is also said to have been employed by See also:

• PEISISTRATUS, (605?–527 B.c.)

Peisistratus in editing the Homeric poems, and to have introduced interpolations of his own (e.g. a passage in the See also:

• EPISODE

episode of the visit of See also:

• ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus to the See also:

• WORLD

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 . See also:

• RITSCHL, ALBRECHT (1822-1889)
• RITSCHL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1806-1876)

Ritschl, " Onomakritos von Athen," in his Opuscula, i . (1866), and p . 35 of the same See also:

• VOLUME

volume; U. von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff, " Homerische Untersuchungen" (pp . 199-226 on the Orphic See also:

• INTERPOLATION (from Lat. interpolare, to alter, or insert something fresh, connected with pollee, a polish)

interpolation in Odyssey, X 566–631), in Kiessling-Mollendorff, Philologische Untersuchungen, Heft 7 (1884) .