Dodona

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(historical) A town and religious shrine of ancient Greece.

(informal) Dodoni, the present settlement at the site, in modern Greece's Ioannina prefecture.

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For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old. Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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. Source: Internet

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

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. Source: Internet

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