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Onomacritus

530 BC - 480 BC

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Onomacritus (Ancient Greek: Ὀνομάκριτος; c. 530 – c. 480 BC), also spelled Onomacritos and Onomakritos, was a Greek chresmologue, or compiler of oracles, who lived at the court of the tyrant Pisistratus in Athens and prepared an edition of the Homeric poems. He was a collector and forger of oracles and poems. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Onomacritus is the 4,046th most popular writer (down from 3,550th in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Greece (down from 602nd in 2019) and the 77th most popular Greek Writer.

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Among writers, Onomacritus ranks 4,046 out of 7,302. Before her are Yang Jiang, George Coșbuc, Daniel Silva, Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina, Decimus Laberius, and Mary Renault. After her are Leif G. W. Persson, Jurek Becker, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Zsigmond Móricz, Gary Chapman, and Lygia Fagundes Telles.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 530 BC, Onomacritus ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 480 BC, Onomacritus ranks 6. Before her are Leonidas I, Mahapajapati Gotami, Ephialtes of Trachis, Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis, and Cleombrotus. After her is Hamilcar I of Carthage.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Onomacritus ranks 674 out of 1,024. Before her are Matilde Serao (1856), Phormio (-450), Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos (1851), Ioannis Andreou (1900), Panagis Tsaldaris (1868), and Antonios Nikopolidis (1971). After her are Dimitrios Voulgaris (1803), Mohamed Sherif Pasha (1826), Abundius (null), Ioannis Theodoropoulos (1900), Corinna (-501), and Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis (1863).

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Among WRITERS In Greece

Among writers born in Greece, Onomacritus ranks 77. Before her are Philoxenus of Cythera (-435), Vassilis Alexakis (1943), Vitsentzos Kornaros (1553), Alberto Savinio (1891), Antiphanes (-388), and Matilde Serao (1856). After her are Corinna (-501), Sotades (-400), Ioannis Chrysafis (1873), Kostas Karyotakis (1896), Solomon Alkabetz (1505), and Andreas Kalvos (1792).

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