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Onatas

1. A bronze statue of Heracles, on a bronze base, dedicated at Olympia by the Thasians. The statue was ten cubits high: in the right hand was a club, in the left a bow: and it bore the following inscription (Paus. l.c.) :--

Υἱὸς μέν με Μίκωνος Ὀνάτας ἐξετέλεσσεν, Αὐτὸς ἐν Αἰγίνη δώματα ϝαιετάων.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.