Onatas
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thumb|upright|Statue of Onatas on the facade of the New Hermitage Building in St Petersburg, Russia Onatas () was an ancient Greek sculptor of the time of the Persian Wars and an exponent 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.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Aegina
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Image
- Новый Эрмитаж. Онатас (Onatas).jpg
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- date of birth
- 0550-00-00
- Commons category
- Onatas
- date of death
- 0500-01-01
- time period
- classical antiquity
- name in native language
- Ονάτας
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thumb|upright|Statue of Onatas on the facade of the New Hermitage Building in St Petersburg, Russia Onatas () was an ancient Greek sculptor of the time of the Persian Wars and an exponent 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. In Delphi he was one of the sculptors who executed the Ex voto of the Tarentines.
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