Dictys Cretensis

The beginning of the «Ephemeris belli Troiani» ascribed to Dictys Cretensis in a manuscript of the [[Abbey of Saint Gall Dictys Cretensis, i.e. Dictys of Crete (, ; ) of Knossos 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 Alexandrian audience, came to be taken literally during Late Antiquity. Provided by Wikipedia
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Ephemeridos belli Troiani libri /
Participants: Dictys Cretensis, [ VerfasserIn, VerfasserIn ]; Eisenhut, Werner, [ HerausgeberIn, HerausgeberIn ]
Published: [2013]
Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Classics and Near East Studies 1990 - 1999
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