Dodona
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Dodonaean adjective
- Dodonean adjective
- Dodonian adjective
Example Sentences
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Why did Moses see God in the flames of a burning bush and the Greeks hear the voice of Zeus in the wind of the sacred oak tree of Dodona?
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2022
A great many oracles, like those of Zeus who dwelled at his sacred site Dodona, determined the will of the gods by monitoring the migrations of birds.
From Time • Nov. 23, 2015
Dodona was formed in 2007 by Alan Brody, who also created the firm Epirus Capital Management LLC.
From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2015
The stones of the theater at Dodona and the sere Greek hills behind them grandly evoke the atmosphere in which Sophocles himself saw his great tragedy performed.
From Time Magazine Archive
So he went to Dodona, in the land of oak trees, where the talking oaks were which declared Zeus’s will and where the Selli lived who made their bread from acorns.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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