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Onatas

6. The bronze chariot, with a figure of a man in it, which was dedicated at Olympia by Deinomenes, the son of Hieron, in memory of his father's victories. On each side of the chariot were ridinghorses, with figures of boys upon them; these were made by Calanis. (Paus. 6.12.1, 8.42.4. s. 8.) This work is one authority o date of Onatas, since Hieron died B. C. 467.

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.