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Dodona

Dodona meaning

A town and religious shrine of ancient in Greece. | Dodoni, the present settlement at the site, in modern Greece's Ioannina prefecture.

Example sentences (5)

One defines "Zeus Molossos" (worshipped only at Dodona ) as "the god identical to Zeus as worshipped by the Molossians at Dodona".

Epirus in the Classical period The theater of Dodona with Mt. Tomarus in the background.

Odyssey 14.326-7 By the time Herodotus wrote about Dodona, female priestesses called peleiades ("doves") had replaced the male priests.

Pyrrhus nonetheless brought great prosperity to Epirus, building the great theater of Dodona and a new suburb at Ambracia (now modern Arta ), which made his capital.

The goddess Dione (in her name simply the "Goddess") is sometimes taken by later mythographers as a mere feminine form of Zeus (see entry Dodona ): if this were so, she would not have assembled here.