This article is about the Greek name "Δίκτυς" in mythology. For the pretended historian of the Trojan War, see
Dictys Cretensis. For the model organism soil amoeba, see
Dictyostelium discoideum.
Dictys, a
fisherman[1] and brother of King
Polydectes of
Seriphos, both being the sons of
Magnes and a
Naiad,[2][3] or of
Peristhenes and
Androthoe,[4] or else of
Poseidon and
Cerebia.[5] 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.[4][6] Dictys and his wife,
Clymene, had an altar within a sacred precinct of Perseus in
Athens.[7]
Dictys, one of the sailors who tried to abduct
Dionysus but was turned into a dolphin by the god.[8]
Dictys, a centaur who attended
Pirithous' 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.[9]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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This article is about the Greek name "Δίκτυς" in mythology. For the pretended historian of the Trojan War, see
Dictys Cretensis. For the model organism soil amoeba, see
Dictyostelium discoideum.
Dictys, a
fisherman[1] and brother of King
Polydectes of
Seriphos, both being the sons of
Magnes and a
Naiad,[2][3] or of
Peristhenes and
Androthoe,[4] or else of
Poseidon and
Cerebia.[5] 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.[4][6] Dictys and his wife,
Clymene, had an altar within a sacred precinct of Perseus in
Athens.[7]
Dictys, one of the sailors who tried to abduct
Dionysus but was turned into a dolphin by the god.[8]
Dictys, a centaur who attended
Pirithous' 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.[9]
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.