Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Ephemeris
Dictyos Cretensis ephemeris de bello Troiano
(Dictyos Cretensis ephemeris de bello Troiano, Diary of the Trojan war by Dictys of Crete)

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Period covered:

Trojan war

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

This is the Latin version of Dictys of Crete.

Edition - Translation:

W. Eisenhut (1973) Ephemeridos Belli Troiani libri a Lucio Septimio ex Graeco in Latinum sermonem translati. Accedunt papyri Dictys Graeci in Aegypto inventae (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana). Leipzig.

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Bibliography:

Al. Cameron (2004) Greek mythography in the Roman world. Oxford.
W. Eisenhut (1969) 'Zum neuen Diktys Papyrus'. Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 112: 114-119.
S. Merkle (2003) 'The truth and nothing but the truth: Dictys and Dares'. In: The novel in the ancient world. Volume Two, ed. G. Schmeling. Leiden: 566-567.
S. Timpanaro (1987) 'Sulla composizione e la tecnica narrativa dell' Ephemeris de Ditti-Settimio'. In: Filologia e forme letterarie: Studi offerti a F. della Corte. Volume Four, ed. S. Boldrini. Urbino: 169-215.
N.K. Yavuz (2018) Transtextual networks in the European Middle Ages: A digital corpus of the Trojan narrative in Latin manuscripts: http://www.transtextual.net/works/