Tags: Mythological Figure.
Dictys (Ancient Greek: Δίκτυς) was a name attributed to four men in Greek mythology. Dictys was a fisherman and brother of King Polydectes of Seriphos both being the sons of Magnes and a Naiad or of Peristhenes and Androthoe or else of Poseidon and Cerebia. 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.