THE IDAEAN DACTYLS

Fragment #1—Pliny, Natural History vii. 56, 197: Hesiod says that those

who are called the Idaean Dactyls taught the smelting and tempering of

iron in Crete.

Fragment #2—Clement, Stromateis i. 16. 75: 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 1501.

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