10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DODONAEAN»
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New classical dictionary of biography, mythology, and geography
At Dodona Zeus was mainly a prophetic god, and the oak tree was sacred to him
; but there too he was said to have been reared by the Dodonaean nymphs (1
hades). Respecting the Dodonaean oracle of Zeus, see Diet, of Antiq. art.
2
The Intent on: Collected Poems, 1962-2006
Dodonaean. Rilke]. the cold calls travel—with the gone? with no one,maybe a
many—bundles, restless—some work no hand to, but having, harden the heart to
those who don't—all understandable, core, even, of what we think of as union ...
Kenneth Irby, Kyle Waugh, Cyrus Console, 2009
3
Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments
One of these ' others ' is clearly, in the scholiast's intention, Herodotus, whom he
has been quoting for the theory that barbarian women might have been called '
doves'; and he has omitted to observe that Herodotus speaks of three
Dodonaean ...
4
Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania
12, in his account of prophetic women, he mentions Phaen- nis, daughter of a
king of Chaonia, and speaks of the Dodonaean doves, or Peleiades, which he
says were earlier than Phemonoe, and were the first females who uttered these ...
Thomas Smart Hughes, 1820
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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Beech-trees, however, are also mentioned in connexion with the Dodonaean
oracle, which, as Hesiod" said, dwelled in the stem of a beech-tree. Hence we
may infer that the oracle was not thought to dwell in any particular or single tree,
but in ...
William Smith, Charles Anthon, 1843
6
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Greece : Thessaly to Aegean islands
KINGS OF EPIRUS : ALEXANDER c- 334-332 B.C. Obv. Dodonaean Zeus
crowned with oak. Rev. Thunderbolt; on I., eagle; AXeÇav6pou (то)u Neott-
тоЛеуou. Stater struck at Tarentum. 89. JR. I 10.53. Jacobsen 115. Num. Chron.
1926, 163 ...
Nationalmuseet (Denmark), Niels J. Breitenstein, Willy Schwabacher, 1982
7
From Adam to Noah-The Numbers Game: Why the Genealogy ...
The story that the Dodonaean priestesses told about the origin of their place of
worship is an example of how this wisdom culture created one of its riddles. That
story was built by the Dodonaean cult to be understood only by those “in the
know.
8
Zeus: A Study in Ancient Religion
... his Dodonaean nurse {supra i. 1 1 1 n. 6), Polymnia mother of Orpheus (schol.
Ap. Rhod. 1. 23) and of Triptolemos (schol. //. 10. 435, Eustath. in II. p. 817, 32,
Tzetz. in Hes. o.d. 1 p. 28, 6f. Gaisford)). The descent of Dionysos and
Polyhymnos ...
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The historical antiquities of the Greeks with reference to ...
According to the words of Aristotle, indeed, the TpaiKol or subsequent Hellenes,
although they came originally from the environs of the Dodonaean sanctuary,
were not identical with the Selli ; but, like the common mother-district, there
appears ...
Ernst Wilhelm G. Wachsmuth, 1837
10
Researches Into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal ...
Oh great Pelasgic, Dodonaean Jove ! ' " Many, also, call the people of Epirus
Pelasgi, for that far did their sway extend : and numerous heroes, from whom
many people were named, were likewise called Pelasgi : for even Lesbos is
called ...
