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Headword:
*oi)no/maos
Adler number: omicroniota,123
Translated headword: Oinomaos, Oenomaus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Gadara,[1] Cynic philosopher, he was not much older than
Porphyry.[2] [He wrote]
On Cynicism,
Republic,
On philosophy according to Homer,
On Crates and Diogenes, and [on] other subjects.
*oi)no/maos, *gadareu/s, filo/sofos *kuniko/s, gegonw\s ou) pollw=| presbu/teros *porfuri/ou. *peri\ *kunismou=, *politei/an, *peri\ th=s kaq' *(/omhron filosofi/as, *peri\ *kra/thtos kai\ *dioge/nous kai\ tw=n loipw=n.
Notes:
On Oinomaos [
Author,
Myth]/Oenomaus [
Author,
Myth], fl. 120 CE, see generally John Moles in OCD(4) s.v. He is the only Cynic philosopher of whom we have a significant amount of material, probably belonging to his treatise
On the discovery of wailers; the text is preserved in
Eusebius,
PE V-VI. In this work Oinomaos strongly criticizes the fatalistic Stoic position that the world is ruled by fate understood as a concatenation of events. For detailed discussion on the issue, see Brancacci (2000), 41 ff.
[1] In present-day Jordan.
[2] For whom see
pi 2098.
Brancacci A. (ed.) La filosofia in età imperiale. Le scuole e le tradizioni filosofiche. Naples 2000
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; philosophy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 10 May 2001@18:31:17.
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