Dictys
Dictys(Ancient Greek:Δίκτυς,Díktus) was a name attributed to four men inGreek mythology.
- Dictys, afisherman[1]and brother of KingPolydectesofSeriphos,both being the sons ofMagnesand aNaiad,[2][3]or ofPeristhenesandAndrothoe,[4]or else ofPoseidonandCerebia.[5]He discoveredDanaëandPerseusinside a chest that had been washed up on shore (or was caught in his fishing net). He treated them well and raised Perseus as his own son. After Perseus killedMedusa,rescuedAndromeda,and later showed Medusa's head to Polydectes turning him and the nobles with him to stone, he made Dictys king.[4][6]Dictys and his wife,Clymene,had an altar within a sacred precinct of Perseus inAthens.[7]
- Dictys, one of the sailors who tried to abductDionysusbut was turned into a dolphin by the god.[8]
- Dictys, a centaur who attendedPirithous' wedding and battled against theLapiths.While fleeingPirithous,he slipped and fell off of a cliff. He was impaled on the top of an ash tree and died.[9]
- Dictys, theEleanson ofPoseidonandAgamede,daughter ofAugeas.He was the brother ofActorandBelus.[10]
- Dictysis also the title of a lost play byEuripides,which survives in fragmentary form.
Notes[edit]
- ^Hyginus,Fabulae63
- ^Apollodorus,1.9.6
- ^Gantz, Timothy (1993).Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Ancient Sources.London:Johns Hopkins University Press.p. 167.ISBN0-8018-4410-X.
- ^abScholiaonApollonius Rhodius,4.1091
- ^TzetzesonLycophron,838
- ^Apollodorus, 2.4.1–3
- ^Pausanias,2.18.1
- ^Hyginus,Fabulae134
- ^Ovid,Metamorphoses12.327
- ^Hyginus,Fabulae157
References[edit]
- Apollodorus,The Librarywith an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.ISBN0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginustranslated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphosestranslated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso,Metamorphoses.Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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