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DIKTYS OF CRETE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2012

Peter Gainsford
Peter Gainsford*
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Wellington, New Zealand
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*Email: peter.gainsford@gmail.com.
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Abstract

‘Diktys of Crete’ is a fictionalised prose account of the Trojan War. It does not enjoy a high profile in modern thought, but looms large in Byzantine and mediaeval histories of the Troy matter. Although the ‘Latin Dictys’ has enjoyed a moderate revival in recent scholarship, the Byzantine testimony to Diktys is still badly neglected. The present article focuses on: (1) a general overview of the Greek Diktys, including up-to-date information on dating; (2) a comprehensive list of witnesses to Diktys (the first list of its kind for over a century, and the first ever in English); (3) some problems relating to Book 6 of the ‘Latin Dictys’; and (4) an overview of the Sisyphosfrage, that is, the question of the role of ‘Sisyphos of Kos’ in the transmission of the Greek Diktys.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 58 , December 2012 , pp. 58 - 87
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2012. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

I am grateful to the editors and referees of CCJ for their encouragement and comments; to Mary Jane Cuyler, Simon Perris, and Art Pomeroy for other essential assistance and advice; to Victoria University of Wellington for the use of library resources; and most of all to the Internet Archive and the Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden, without whose online resources I could never have consulted most of the older books in my bibliography. I alone am to blame for all errors.

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