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, Dodone (

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: Δωδώνης) was said to be one of the Oceanid nymphs (the 3,000 daughters of the

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Oceanus and Tethys), after whom the ancient city of

Dodona Dodona (; Doric Greek: Δωδώνα, ''Dōdṓnā'', Ionic and Attic Greek: Δωδώνη, ''Dōdṓnē'') in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the second millennium BCE according to Herodotus. Th ...

was named. The 6th century AD grammarian Stephanus of Byzantium (''s.v.'' ''Δωδὠνη''), writes that according to Thrasyboulos (''FHG'' II 464, a), as reported by

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(fr. 57 Braswell–Billerbeck) in his commentary on

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's '' Aetia'' (fr. 53 Pfeiffer), the ancient city

was named after an Oceanid nymph named Dodone. Stephanus further notes that, according to Akestodorus, the city was instead named after Dodon, a son of

Zeus Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label= genitive Boeotian Aeolic and Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label= genitive el, Δίας, ''Días'' () is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek reli ...

and Europa, but concludes that it is more likely that the city was named after the river Dodon, as Herodian says. According to Schol. ''

Iliad The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the '' Odys ...

'' 16.233) the city was named after Dodon or Dodone the wife of

Deucalion In Greek mythology, Deucalion (; grc-gre, Δευκαλίων) was the son of Prometheus; ancient sources name his mother as Clymene, Hesione, or Pronoia.A scholium to ''Odyssey'' 10.2 (='' Catalogue'' fr. 4) reports that Hesiod called Deucal ...

who named the city after her, and according to Eustathius, on ''

'' 2.750, the city was named after Dodone, a heroine or Oceanid, or after Dodon.Harder
p. 383

Notes

References

* Braswell, Bruce Karl, Billerbeck, Magarethe, ''The Gramarian Epaphroditus: Testimonia and Fragments'', Peter Lang, 2007. . * Harder, Annette, ''Callimachus: Aetia: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary'', Oxford University Press, 2012. . (two volume set). * Meineke, August, ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorvm quae svpersvnt'', Berolini: Impensis G. Reimeri, 1849
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