Onomacritus

529 BC–479 BC

5th-century BC Athenian compiler of oracles

writer · poet · mythographer

Born in Athens

Contemporaries

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• Confucius (550 BC–478 BC)
• Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
• Laozi (579 BC–500 BC)
• Pythagoras (582 BC–490 BC)
• Sun Tzu (543 BC–495 BC)
• Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
• Heraclitus (534 BC–470 BC)
• Parmenides (514 BC–469 BC)

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