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	DITE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dictys Cretensis, the supposed author of Ephemeridos belli Troiani (A Journal of the Trojan War), said he accompanied Idomeneus the Cretan to the war.
		There are two sets of manuscripts: one group is introduced by a preface, the other group by a letter in which the author claims to be the Latin translator of the original Greek of Dictys.
		Eisenhut; Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis, The Trojan War, trans.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/D/dite.htm (249 words)

	DICTYS CRETENSIS - LoveToKnow Article on DICTYS CRETENSIS
		In the 4th century A.D. a certain Lucius Septimius brought out Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris belli Trojani, which professed to be aLatin 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. Grenfell and A. Hunt in 1905-1906.
		2); F. Noack, Der griechische Dictys, in Phllologus, supp.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DI/DICTYS_CRETENSIS.htm (223 words)

	Dictys Cretensis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dictys Cretensis, (Dictys of Crete), alleged to have been of Knossus in Crete, was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that was part of the raw material worked up by Homer for the Iliad.
		Septimius brought out Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris belli Trojani, ("Dictys of Crete, chronicle of the Trojan War") in six books, a work that professed to be a Latin translation of the Greek version.
		Its chief interest lies in the fact that, as knowledge of Greek waned and disappeared in Western Europe, this and Dares of Phrygia's De excidio Trojae were the sources from which the Homeric legends were transmitted to the Romance literature of the Middle Ages.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/D/Dictys-Cretensis.htm (535 words)

	Dictys Cretensis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Dictys was supposed to have accompanied the Cretan leader Idomeneus from Knossos to the siege of Troy and to have written a pro-Greek account of the Trojan War.
		His manuscript was said to have been “discovered” during the 1st century AD and, by command of the Roman emperor Nero, to have been transliterated from Phoenician...
		The chief sources for medieval versions of the story were fictitious eyewitness accounts of the Trojan War by Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030357 (351 words)

	Lecture Series--Dorothy Thompson, On–line Exhibit
		The work concerns the Trojan War and was allegedly written by a certain Dictys from Crete, the supposed companion of the Greek warrior Idomeneus at the walls of Troy.
		For years it was disputed whether the Dictys really had an ancient Greek original as claimed.
		The discovery in the Tebtunis papyri of this large fragment of Dictys's "novel" in Greek settled the question.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~tebtunis/lecture/thomp_ex3.html (488 words)

	POLIPHEMUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Dictys Cretensis also tells the story in Ephemeridos belli Troiani, VI.5, 6.
		Lady Philosophy reminds Boethius of the sufferings of famous men to show him that all fortune that seems sharp corrects and exercises the good man, Bo IV, Metr 7.18-27, and she tells him the story of Ulysses and Poliphemus.
		Eisenhut, 123-125; Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis, The Trojan War, trans.
	www.columbia.edu /dlc/garland/deweever/PQ/poliphem.htm (237 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1002 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cicero intended to make use of this work, which seems to have been written in the form of a dialogue, for his treatise de Gloria.
		Minos then desisted from pursuing her, and ordered the district to be called the Dictaean.
		DICTYS (ai/ctus), the name of three mythical personages.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1008.html (1025 words)

	§8. "Troilus and Criseyde". VII. Chaucer. Vol. 2. The End of the Middle Ages. The Cambridge History of English and ...
		The story of the Trojan prince Troilus and his love for a damsel (who, from a confused remembrance of the Homeric heroines, was successively called Briseida and Griseida or Criseida) is one of those developments of the tale of Troy which, unknown to classical tradition, grew up and were eagerly fostered in the Middle Ages.
		Probably first sketched in the curious and still uncertainly dated works of Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius, it had been worked up into a long legend in the Roman de Troie of Benoît de Sainte.
		More, a French trouvére of the late twelfth century; these, according to medieval habit, though with an absence of acknowledgement by no means universal or even usual, had been adapted bodily a hundred years later in the prose Latin Hystoria Troiana of Guido delle Colonne.
	www.bartleby.com /212/0708.html (1174 words)

	HECUBA - LoveToKnow Article on HECUBA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		She was acquitted by Agamemnon; but, as Polymestor foretold, she was turned into a dog, and her grave became a mark for ships (Ovid, Metam.
		According to another story, she fell to the lot of Odysseus, as a slave, and in despair threw herself into the Hellespont; or, she used such insulting language towards her captors that they put her to death (Dictys Cretensis v.
		It is obvious from the tales of Hecubas transformation and death that she is a form of some goddess to whom dogs were sacred; and the analogy with Scylla is striking.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HE/HECUBA.htm (237 words)

	DICTYS CRETENSIS - Online Information article about DICTYS CRETENSIS
		DICTYS CRETENSIS - Online Information article about DICTYS CRETENSIS
		Lucius Septimius brought out Dictys Cretensis See also:
		2) ; F. Noack, " Der griechische Dictys," in Philologus, supp.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DEM_DIO/DICTYS_CRETENSIS.html (339 words)

	Bancroftiana, Number 122 Spring 2003: Reading Papyri, Writing History
		By the Middle Ages the most popular description of the war was based on a Latin text describing itself as a translation of an eyewitness account given by Dictys Cretensis (Dictys of Crete).
		According to the prologue, Dictys fought against the Trojans and later recorded the war (in the Phoenician alphabet) on sheets of bark that were placed in his tomb upon his death.
		The Dictys account is just one of a great many papyrus finds that have added to the body of ancient literature that informs not only classical studies, but also part of the literary heritage of the West.
	bancroft.berkeley.edu /events/bancroftiana/122/papyri.html (1046 words)

	Troy Book: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		For them, the claims of the Troy story lie not in the fables of the poets but in the truth of what they took to be historical witness.
		A fragment of a Greek text of Dictys survives, but the chief sources are Dares's De excidio Troiae historia and Dictys's Ephemeridos belli Troiani, two late Latin texts purporting to translate Greek originals.
		However spare their accounts of heroes and battles may be, these accounts established the idea for the Middle Ages that the Trojan War could be approached as history with the same factual basis as found in chronicles.
	www.lib.rochester.edu /camelot/teams/troyint.htm (8543 words)

	Prof. Hanly, Uni Basel Blockseminar: Sources, Influences for Troilus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Both Dares (the better-known account) and Dictys were considered in Middle Ages to be closer to the "truth" of the story than Homer, since they were thought to have been written earlier.
		Minor characters from Homer such as Troilus and Diomede given more prominent parts; Briseis given longer description than Helen of Troy, perhaps source for later inventions about her.
		Guido delle Colonna (de Columpnis), Historia destructionis Troiae (1287)--Latin prose translation/paraphrase of Benoît; however, Guido claims to have based his poem on Dares and Dictys and never mentions Benoît.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~hanly/basel/unibasTCsources.html (495 words)

	Anne Lefèvre
		On her father's death in 1672 she removed to Paris, carrying with her part of an edition of Callimachus, which she afterwards published.
		This was so well received that she was engaged as one of the editors of the Deiphin series of classical authors, in which she edited Florus, Dictys Cretensis, Aurelius Victor and Eutropius.
		In 1681 appeared her prose version of Anacreon and Sappho, and in the next few years, she published prose versions of Terence and some of the plays of Plautus and Aristophanes.
	www.nndb.com /people/026/000096735 (292 words)

	On Linking Caesar and Xena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The two major Medieval sources of the Trojan Wars were Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis.
		Dares Phrygius was a Trojan priest of Hephaestus who wrote an eye witness account of the Trojan War.
		Dictys Cretensis was said to be a friend of Idomeneus.
	www.whoosh.org /issue17/lashmar2.html (2536 words)

	mea vita fabulosa: Dictys Cretensis and other authors I hate...
		Here's part of the passage, it's from the September 1991 exam and it is written by dude named Dictys Cretensis.
		To which, nothing was returned by Priam or his men except proud threats of words and hidden treacheries.
		All I can say is, you tried Dictys with that supine, you tried, but you couldn't fool me. The rest of it though is hogwash.
	meavitafabulosa.com /2005/09/dictys-cretensis-and-other-authors-i.html (758 words)

	Buy Dictys Books online - selected, recommended and reviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Greek mythology, Dictys was a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos.
		He discovered Danae and Perseus inside a chest that had washed up on shore.
		After Perseus killed Medusa, rescued Andromeda and killed Polydectes, he made Dictys king.
	www.buybookonline.net /d/di/dictys.html (136 words)

	Dictys Cretensis
		Dictys Cretensis, (Dictys of Crete), alleged to have been of Knossus in Crete, was the legendary companion of Idomeneus during the Trojan War, and the purported author of a diary of its events, that deployed some of the same materials worked up by Homer for the Iliad.
		In the 4th century AD a certain Q. Septimius brought out Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris belli Trojani, ("Dictys of Crete, chronicle of the Trojan War") in six books, a work that professed to be a Latin translation of the Greek version.
		H Dunger, Die Sage vom trojanischen Kriege In den Bearbeitungen des Mittelalters und lhren antiken Quellen (1869, with a literary genealogical table)
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/DictysCretensis.html (517 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 185 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The diary, written in Phosnician on palm leaves, was said to have been found in a leaden box in his grave in the time of Nero, and to have been translated into Greek at that emperor's command.
		The existence of this Greek version was doubted, but a certain Lucius Sep-timius, of the 4th century a.d., gave out his Dictys Cretensis Ephemfrls De Bella Troia.no as a translation of it.
		This book, and the equally absurd one of Dares (see dares), were the chief authorities followed by the mediaeval poets who handled the story of Troy.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0188.html (809 words)

	translating it into my language from Latin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Chaucer twice cites an author named Lollius as his source, and purports that he is not composing his own verse, but rather translating a Latin text into the English vernacular.
		In his House of Fame (1465-72), Chaucer lists Lollius among such poets as Dictys, Dares, Guido de Columnis, and even Homer himself as an authority on Torjan history.
		Though it is unlikely, Chaucer might actually have believed in that Lollius existed, though by presenting Troilus and Criseyde as the translation of Lollius, he was in essence claiming to be reintroducing a work, which would have been a major discovery and of great import to scholarly society.
	filebox.vt.edu /c/ccooley/TCLatin.htm (106 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Memnon. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of Voltaire’s novels, designed to show the folly of aspiring to too much wisdom.
		The legend given by Dictys Cretensis (book vi.) is that Himera, on hearing of her brother’s death, set out to secure his remains, and encountered at Paphos a troop laden with booty, and carrying Memnon’s ashes in an urn.
		Pallas, the leader of the troop, offered to give her either the urn or the booty, and she chose the urn.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/81/11285.html (247 words)

	Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariaat - Sicily
		Reprinted from the edition of Messina 1498, which was the first edition combining both texts.
		Dares of Phrygia, priest of Hephaestus at Troy (Iliad 5.9) and reputed author of this lost pre-Homeric account of the Trojan War, probably actually lived at the beginning of the 6th century A.D. In the Middle Ages, when the original text of Homer was not available, the accounts of Dictys and Dares had great influence.
		Both texts "are of considerable importance in the history of modern literature, since they are the chief fountains from which the legends of Greece first flowed into the romances of the Middle Ages, and then mingled with the popular tales and ballads of England, France, and Germany" (Smith).
	www.ludwigrosenthal.com /sicily.htm (407 words)

	[2003: January] [Fwd: Re: Dictys Cretensis]
		I didn't realise that this is an open forum and so posted my reply to James personally.
		I have been wondering to what extent the existence of the Minoan linear A and B scripts plays into Dictys camp.
		Although the linear langauges look like book-keeper's shorthand is it not possible that they were related to a Phoenicean script as Dictys suggests?
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/01/0235.php (352 words)

	VIRGIL: Re: VIRGIL & The Cinema
		I am not sure that there would be any Virgilian influence in "Troilus and Cressida", since it was probably based on the mediæval Troy story.
		This was developed out of late sources like "Dares Phrygius" and "Dictys Cretensis"by Benoi^t de Sainte-Maure,Boccaccio, Chaucer and Henryson.
		Cressida is not found in ancient sources and seems ultimately to be a conflation of Chryseis and Briseis from the Iliad.
	www.mail-archive.com /mantovano@virgil.org/msg01168.html (377 words)

	[2003: January] Dictys Cretensis
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		Is there anyone on this list who considers it possible that Dictys Cretensis was at Troy and told it true?
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/2003/01/0186.php (101 words)

	Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris belli Troiani
		Dictys Cretensis, Ephemeris belli Troiani 6-10 (leicht gekürzt)
		Interim apud Troiam legatorum Palamedes, cuius maxime ea tempestate domi belloque consilium valuit, ad Priamum adit conductoque consilio primum de Alexandri iniuria conqueritur, exponens conmunis hospitii eversionem, dein monet, quantas ea res inter dua regna simultates concitatura esset, interiaciens memoriam discordiarum Ili et Pelopis aliorumque, qui ex causis similibus ad internecionem gentium usque pervenissent.
		Interim paucis post diebus Alexander cum supra dictis comitibus venit Helenam secum habens.
	www.uni-regensburg.de /Fakultaeten/phil_Fak_IV/Klass_Phil/DictysCretensis.htm (559 words)

	The Trojan War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The book of Virgil's Aeneid contains the best known account of the sack of Troy.
		In addition, there are untrue stories under the names of Dictys Cretensis and Dares Phrygius.
		In the Bronze age, Troy had a great power because of its strategic position between Europe and Asia.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /westcivi/the_trojan_war.htm (290 words)

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	languagehat.com: Comment on DIGHT.
		When I read the word "dight," my mind went immediately back to Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, l.
		146, "in Omer, or in Dares, or in Dyte." Sadly, "dyte" in this context is merely an abbreviated form of the name Dictys Cretensis, a lesser reteller of the Trojan War.
		Posted by Jonathan K. Cohen at May 2, 2005 06:18 PM
	www.languagehat.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1874 (683 words)

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