Definitions for Dodona

Dodona Do·do·na

Spelling: [duh-doh-nuh]
IPA: /dəˈdoʊ nə/

Dodona is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in Dodona (addnoo).

Definitions for Dodona

noun

  1. an ancient town in NW Greece, in Epirus: the site of a famous oracle of Zeus.

Examples for Dodona

It was thus with the most primitive god of Greek mythology, Zeus of Dodona.

From the oaks of Dodona doves uttered oracles of the future.

The tragic writers and Pindar give the epithet of Thesprotis to Dodona.

Hence it is asserted that the story of the doves in the oak at Dodona is a fable.

This I heard from the priests at Thebes, and what follows is said by the prophetesses of Dodona.

The Greek mythology was derived from the Pelasgians, and the oracle of Dodona belonged to them.

Even the oracle at Dodona has almost been deserted, like the rest.

You see, therefore, from this that the origin of Dodona was exclusively Irish!

Hence at Dodona it is to the Bœotians only that men deliver oracles.

This I heard from the priests at Thebes, and what follows is said by the prophetesses 52 of Dodona.

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