The Idaean Dactyls. Hesiod. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. 1922

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica. 1922.

Hesiod

The Idaean Dactyls


1. HESIOD says that those who are called the Idaean Dactyls taught the smelting and tempering of iron in Crete.	1

Celmis, again, and Damnameneus, the first of the Idaean Dactyls, discovered iron in Cyprus; but bronze-smelting was discovered by Delas, another Idaean, though Hesiod calls him Scythes. 1	2

Note 1. Or perhaps “a Scythian.” [back]