Dictys
{{Short description|Name in Greek mythology}}
{{about|the Greek name "Δίκτυς" in mythology|the pretended historian of the Trojan War|Dictys Cretensis|the model organism soil amoeba|Dictyostelium discoideum}}
Dictys ({{langx|grc|Δίκτυς}}, Díktus) was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology.
- {{Anchor|Son of Magnes}} Dictys, a fishermanHyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#63 63] and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos, both being the sons of Magnes and a Naiad,Apollodorus, 1.9.6{{Cite book|last=Gantz|first=Timothy|title=Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Ancient Sources|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=1993|isbn=0-8018-4410-X|location=London|pages=167}} or of Peristhenes and Androthoe,Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1091 or else of Poseidon and Cerebia.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 838 He discovered Danaë and Perseus inside 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 killed Medusa, rescued Andromeda, and later showed Medusa's head to Polydectes turning him and the nobles with him to stone, he made Dictys king.Apollodorus, 2.4.1–3 Dictys and his wife, Clymene, had an altar within a sacred precinct of Perseus in Athens.Pausanias, 2.18.1
- Dictys, one of the sailors who tried to abduct Dionysus but was turned into a dolphin by the god.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#134 134]
- Dictys, a centaur who attended Pirithous' wedding and battled against the Lapiths. While fleeing Pirithous, he slipped and fell off of a cliff. He was impaled on the top of an ash tree and died.Ovid, Metamorphoses [http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses12.html 12.327]
- Dictys, the Elean son of Poseidon and Agamede, daughter of Augeas. He was the brother of Actor and Belus.Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]
- Dictys is also the title of a lost play by Euripides, which survives in fragmentary form.
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References
- Apollodorus, The Library with 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99135-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with 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. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
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