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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

An Acarnanian chrēsmologos (someone who speaks, collects, or interprets ORACLES: Bowden 2003, 261). Amphilytus delivers a PROPHECY to PEISISTRATUS just before the Battle of Pallene (Attica) in 546 BCE: “the net has been cast … and the tuna will rush headlong through the night.” Peisistratus accepts the prophecy, leads his army to victory, and finally establishes himself as TYRANT at ATHENS (1.62.4; see Lavelle 1991). A pseudo‐Platonic dialogue refers to Amphilytus as an “Acharnian,” i.e., from the Attic DEME of Acharnae ([Plato] Theages 124d]; but ACARNANIA was particularly associated with seers (see e.g., MEGISTIAS), and the PEISISTRATIDAE showed great interest in collecting oracles and chrēsmologoi themselves (Shapiro 1990).

SEE ALSO: Divination; Fish; Onomacritus; Pallene (Deme)