page_title: Dictys Cretensis
hierarchical_section_title: Dictys Cretensis
caption_attribution_description: English: The beginning of the «Ephemeris belli Troiani» ascribed to the pseudonymous Dictys Cretensis in a manuscript of the Abbey of Saint Gall: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 197, page 1. Deutsch: Der Anfang der “Ephemeris belli Troiani” des angeblichen Dictys Cretensis (Pseudonym) in der Handschrift St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 197, Seite 1.
context_page_description: Dictys Cretensis, i.e. Dictys of Crete of Knossus was a 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. The story of his journal, an amusing fiction addressed to a knowledgeable and sophisticated Alexandrian audience, came to be taken literally during Late Antiquity.
context_section_description: Dictys Cretensis, i.e. Dictys of Crete (/ˈdɪktɪs kriːˈtɛnzɪs/, Classical Latin: [ˈdɪktʏs kreːˈtẽːsɪs]; Ancient Greek: Δίκτυς ὁ Κρής) of Knossus was a 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. The story of his journal, an amusing fiction addressed to a knowledgeable and sophisticated Alexandrian audience, came to be taken literally during Late Antiquity.
caption: The beginning of the «Ephemeris belli Troiani» ascribed to Dictys Cretensis in a manuscript of the Abbey of Saint Gall: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 197, page 1 (late 9th century)
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