Galaxy/The codex of Dictys

A centaur at Peirithous' wedding who fled Ixion's son and fell from a cliff onto the splintered top of an ash tree.1

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In Ovid's telling of the centauromachy, Dictys ran in desperate haste to escape Peirithous, slipped on the steep edge of a precipice, and fell headlong onto a huge ash-tree whose broken spikes impaled his dying body. He must be kept distinct from Dictys the fisherman of Seriphos who reared Perseus (`dictys`).2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Dictys — art, artifacts and echoes.

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