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Dwdwnh
Dôdônê
Dodona
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DODONE was an Okeanid Nymph of the town and oracular shrine of Dodona in Thesprotia (north-western Greece).
Eponymous town Nymphs were usually Naiades of the local well, spring or fountain, and this might have also been the case with Dodone.
She was perhaps the same as the Titanis Dione who had a temple at Dodona, and was probably also related to the Nymphai Dodonides.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA
DODONE (Dôdônê). Dodon, a son of Zeus by Europa, from whom the oracle of Dodona was believed to have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Dôdônê.) Other traditions traced the name to a nymph of the name of Dodone.
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"Dodone: it gets its name, according to Epaphroditos in his commentary on Aitia 2, from Dodona, one of the Nymphai Okeanides [probably the same as Dione]." - Callimachus, Aitia Frag 2.7 (from Stephanus Byzantium s.v. Dodone)
Sources:
- Callimachus, Fragments - Greek C3rd BC
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