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Remains of the ancient Greek amphitheatre at Dodona, Greece. Dodona was the sanctuary of Zeus and home of the oldest oracle, mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey. Priests here interpreted sounds made by the sacred oaks of Zeus.
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The ancient amphitheatre at Dodona, in Greece. This spectacular site is one of the best-preserved classical amphitheatres in the country.

Ancient town in Epirus, northwestern Greece. It was the site of the earliest Greek oracle, dedicated to Zeus, and administered by priestesses known as peleiai (doves). The god was believed to speak through the sound of wind in an old oak tree, and sometimes through the cooing of doves in its branches, or through the clanging of bronze vessels hung in the trees.

The nearby temple of Zeus was destroyed 219 BC by the neighbouring Aetolians, but the oracle lasted into Roman imperial times. Extensive excavations have been carried out at Dodona.
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For you are to know, that, many years before, King Pelias had been told by the Speaking Oak of Dodona, that a man with one sandal should cast him down from his throne.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
But the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove's mind from the god's high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
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