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    Dodona (/doʊˈdoʊnə/; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, romanized: Dōdṓnā, Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, Dōdṓnē) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic...
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  • Look up Dodona in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dodona is a location in Greece, known for its oracle. Dodona may also refer to: Dodona (Thessaly),...
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  • Dodona (Ancient Greek: Δωδώνη) was a city of Perrhaebia in ancient Thessaly, situated near Scotussa. There is a more famous Dodona in Epirus, the site...
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    Dendrologia: Dodona's Grove, or the Vocal Forest was a poem by James Howell published in 1640, which launched Howell's literary career. It was published...
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  • The diocese of Dodona was an episcopal see in the Roman province of Epirus Vetus in Late Antiquity (fl. 5th–6th centuries). The diocese disappeared during...
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    382 Dodona is a large Main belt asteroid that was discovered by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 29 January 1894 in Nice. It is classified as...
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    Pythia (priestess to Apollo at Delphi), and the oracle of Dione and Zeus at Dodona in Epirus. Other oracles of Apollo were located at Didyma and Mallus on...
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    Dodona Manor, the former home of General George Catlett Marshall (1880–1959), is a National Historic Landmark and historic house museum at 312 East Market...
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    Chaonians, Molossians, and Thesprotians. It was home to the sanctuary of Dodona, the oldest oracle in ancient Greece, and the second most prestigious after...
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    have fathered Ares, Eileithyia, Hebe, and Hephaestus. At the oracle of Dodona, his consort was said to be Dione, by whom the Iliad states that he fathered...
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    Pelasgians (redirect from Thessalian Dodona)
    calls Dodona, identified by reference to "the oak", the "seat of Pelasgians", thus explaining why Homer, in referring to Zeus as he ruled over Dodona, did...
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    the other to Dodona and continued their earlier rites; the priestesses of Dodona claimed that two black doves had flown to Libya and Dodona and commanded...
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    mother, dropping her off with her brother, King Alexander I of Epirus in Dodona, capital of the Molossians. He continued to Illyria where he sought refuge...
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    Dodona, the Punches, are a genus of butterflies found in Asia. The genus was erected by William Chapman Hewitson in 1861. Forewing broad, short, triangular;...
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  • worshipped at Dodona, the oldest oracle of the ancient Greeks: Zeus Naos ("Zeus of the Naiads") Zeus Bouleus ("Zeus the Counselor") Dodona was an ancient...
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    to Plutarch, Deucalion and Pyrrha, having set up the worship of Zeus at Dodona, settled there among the Molossians. At the time, among writers of the classical...
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    Dodona deodata or Broad-banded Punch, is a small but striking butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm that belongs to the family Riodinidae. It was first...
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    February 2021. "Dua Lipa i bëri dhuratë teatrit 'Dodona'" [Dua Lipa gave a gift to the theater 'Dodona']. RTV21 (in Albanian). 7 August 2020. Archived...
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  • Latin or linguistics. Traditionally, it is attributed to the oracles of Dodona. The phrase is thought to have been uttered by a general consulting the...
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    temple in Dodona is tetrastyle pronaos in antis with a cella, an entrance on the northside and outside was a large altar. The temple columns in Dodona were...
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    Sea and the Adriatic Sea. It was also spoken in the Greek sanctuaries of Dodona, Delphi, and Olympia, as well as at the four Panhellenic festivals; the...
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    service, Marshall retired to his home, Dodona Manor, in Leesburg, Virginia. Purchased by the Marshalls in 1941, Dodona had previously served as a quiet weekend...
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    Apollo. Didyma: Temple of Apollo, Didyma, dedicated to Apollo. Dodona: Temple of Zeus, Dodona, dedicated to Zeus. Eleusis: Telesterion, the site of the Eleusinian...
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    Necromanteion of Acheron (on the Acheron river) and at the Oracle of Zeus at Dodona. It is also known that Epirus had strong contact with other Ancient Greek...
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  • ancient Greek tribe inhabiting Epirus in ancient Greece, in a region between Dodona—site of the oldest reported oracle—and the Achelous river; Aristotle named...
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  • Tyrimmas (Ancient Greek: Τυρίμμας, romanized: Turímmas) was a King of Dodona in Epirus. His daughter Euippe bore Odysseus a son, Euryalus, who was later...
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    Dodona durga, the common Punch, is a small but striking butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm (Tibet, Chitral to Nepal, West China, Central China) that...
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  • Olympus Mount Kyllini Mount Othrys Sanctuaries Aornum Delphi Didyma Dion Dodona Eleusis Olympia Other Cave of Zeus Troy Deities Concepts Worldview Greek...
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    widely used in ancient Greece and Rome: for instance in the famous Oracle of Dodona, where disc gongs were also used. Gongs generally fall into three types:...
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    The Terpsichore from Dodona (Greek: Τερψιχόρη της Δωδώνης) is an ancient Greek marble statue under lifesize depicting Terpsichore, the Greek goddess of...
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