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DICTYS CRETENSIS

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 200 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DICTYS CRETENSIS , of Cnossus in
Crete
 , the supposed companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and author of a diary of its events. The MS. of this
work
 , written in Phoenician characters, was said to have been found in his tomb (enclosed in a leaden box) at the time of an
earthquake
  during the reign of Nero, by whose order it was translated into Greek. In the 4th
century
  A.D. a certain Lucius Septimius brought out Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris belli Trojani, which professed to be a Latin
translation
  of the Greek version. Scholars were not agreed whether any Greek
original
  really existed; but all doubt on the point was removed by the discovery of a fragment in Greek amongst the papyri found by B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt in 1905-1906. Possibly the Latin Ephemeris was the
work
  of Septimius himself. Its
chief
 
interest
  lies in the fact that (together with Dares Phrygius's De excidio Trojae) it was the source from which the Homeric legends were introduced into the romantic literature
of the middle ages.
Best edition by F. Meister (1873), with short but useful introduction and index of Latinity; see also G. Korting, Diktys and Dares(1874), with concise bibliography; H. Dunger, Die Sage vom trojanischen Kriege in den Bearbeitungen des Mittelalters and ihren antiken Quellen (1869, with a literary genealogical table) ; E. Collilieux, Etude sur Dictys de
Crete
  et Dares de Phrygie (1887), with bibliography; W. Greif, " Die mittelalterlichen Bearbeitungen der Trojanersage," in E. M. Stengel's Ausgaben and Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der romanischen Philologie, No. 61 (1886, esp. sections 82, 83, 168-172) ; F. Colagrosso, " Ditte Cretese " in Atti della r. Accademia di Archeologia (Naples, 1897, vol. 18, pt. ii. 2) ; F. Noack, " Der griechische Dictys," in Philologus, supp. vi. 403 ff., N. E.
Griffin
 , Dares and Dictys, Introduction to the Study of the Medieval Versions of the Story of Troy (1907),


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