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Dictys

Name in Greek mythology

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the Greek name "Δίκτυς" in mythology

Dictys () was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology.

Son of Magnes Dictys, a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos, both being the sons of Magnes and a Naiad, or of Peristhenes and Androthoe, or else of Poseidon and Cerebia. 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. Dictys and his wife, Clymene, had an altar within a sacred precinct of Perseus in Athens.
Dictys, one of the sailors who tried to abduct Dionysus but was turned into a dolphin by the god.
Dictys, a centaur who attended Pirithous's 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.
Dictys, the Elean son of Poseidon and Agamede, daughter of Augeas. He was the brother of Actor and Belus.
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. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. 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. 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. . 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, Metamorphoses translated 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.

References

[[Gaius Julius Hyginus. Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#63 63]
[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus). Apollodorus]], 1.9.6
Gantz, Timothy. (1993). "Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Ancient Sources". [[Johns Hopkins University Press]].
[[Scholia]] on [[Apollonius Rhodius]], 4.1091
[[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 838
Apollodorus, 2.4.1–3
[[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], 2.18.1
Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#134 134]
[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://www.theoi.com/Text/OvidMetamorphoses12.html 12.327]
Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#157 157]

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