# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dictys-cretensis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:52:30.384Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dictys-cretensis"
name: "Dictys Cretensis"
slug: "dictys-cretensis"
description: "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."
tagline: "Companion of Idomeneus"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Titelpagina_voor_Dictys_Cretensis%2C_Van_den_Trojaanschen_oorlog%2C_1688%2C_RP-P-OB-44.331.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "350"
deathDate: "400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.37
  momentum:             0.6677658697444353
  historical:           16.446584
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "克里特岛的狄克提斯"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Diktis Kretensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis"
    title: "Dictys Cretensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictus_Cretenc"
    title: "Dictus Cretenc"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diktys_Kr%C3%A9tsk%C3%BD"
    title: "Diktys Krétský"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis"
    title: "Dictys Cretensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis"
    title: "Dictys Cretensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictis_Cretense"
    title: "Dictis Cretense"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%B3_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "دیکتیس کرتنسیس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diktys_Kreetalainen"
    title: "Diktys Kreetalainen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictys_de_Cr%C3%A8te"
    title: "Dictys de Crète"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictis_Cretense"
    title: "Dictis Cretense"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditti_Cretese"
    title: "Ditti Cretese"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADctis_de_Creta"
    title: "Díctis de Creta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictys_Cretensis"
    title: "Dictys Cretensis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADctis_de_Creta"
    title: "Díctis de Creta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
    title: "Диктис Критский"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diktis_Kre%C4%87anin"
    title: "Diktis Krećanin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kritlik Diktis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q475001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump