Dodona
Sign in to saveDodona (; , Ionic and , ) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus. The earliest accounts in Homer describe Dodona as an oracle of Zeus. Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige.
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Dodona
- Ancient site.native_name
- Δωδώνη
- Ancient site.native_name_lang
- grc-x-doric
- Ancient site.image
- Dodona-Greece-April-2008-107.JPG
- Ancient site.caption
- View of the bouleuterion in Dodona
- Ancient site.map_type
- Greece
- Ancient site.location
- Dodoni, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
- Ancient site.region
- Epirus
- Ancient site.type
- City and sanctuary
- Ancient site.built
- 2nd millennium BCE
- Ancient site.abandoned
- 391–392 CE
- Ancient site.epochs
- Mycenaean Greek to Roman Imperial
- Ancient site.cultures
- Greek, Roman
- Ancient site.condition
- Ruined
- Ancient site.ownership
- Public
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Early history
- Classical and Hellenistic Greece
- Herodotus
- Strabo
- Other commentaries
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Dodona (; , Ionic and , ) in Epirus in northwestern Greece was the oldest Hellenic oracle, possibly dating to the 2nd millennium BCE according to Herodotus. The earliest accounts in Homer describe Dodona as an oracle of Zeus. Situated in a remote region away from the main Greek poleis, it was considered second only to the Oracle of Delphi in prestige.
Aristotle considered the region around Dodona to have been part of Hellas and the region where the Hellenes originated. The oracle was first under the control of the Thesprotians before it passed into the hands of the Molossians. It remained an important religious sanctuary until the rise of Christianity during the Late Roman era.