Editing Dodona (section)

{{Short description|Hellenic oracle}}
{{other uses}}{{distinguish|Dodoma}}
{{Infobox ancient site
  |name = Dodona
  |native_name = Δωδώνη
  | native_name_lang = grc-x-doric
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  |image = Dodona-Greece-April-2008-107.JPG
  |alt = 
  |caption = View of the [[bouleuterion]] in Dodona
  |map_type = Greece
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  |coordinates = {{coord|39|32|47|N|20|47|16|E|type:landmark_region:GR|display=inline,title}}
  |location = [[Dodoni]], [[Ioannina (regional unit)|Ioannina]], [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]], [[Greece]]
  |region = [[Epirus]]
  |type = City and sanctuary
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  |built = 2nd millennium BCE
  |abandoned = 391–392 CE
  |epochs = [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean Greek]] to [[Roman Empire|Roman Imperial]]
  |cultures = [[Greeks|Greek]], [[Ancient Rome|Roman]]
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  |condition = Ruined
  |ownership = Public
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  |public_access = Yes
  |website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
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}}

'''Dodona''' ({{IPAc-en|d|oʊ|ˈ|d|oʊ|n|ə}}; {{Langx|grc-x-doric|Δωδώνα|Dōdṓnā}}, [[Ionic Greek|Ionic]] and {{Langx|grc-x-attic|Δωδώνη}},<ref>{{harvnb|Liddell|Scott|1996}}, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2329769 "Dodone"]</ref> {{lang|grc-x-ionic|Dōdṓnē}}) in [[Epirus]] in northwestern [[Greece]] was the oldest [[Ancient Greece|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 [[polis|poleis]], it was considered second only to the [[Oracle of Delphi]] in prestige.

[[Aristotle]] considered the region around Dodona to have been part of [[Ancient Greece|Hellas]] and the region where the [[Hellenes]] originated.<ref name="1.14">{{harvnb|Hammond|1986|p=77}}; Aristotle. ''Meteorologica''. [http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/meteorology.1.i.html 1.14].</ref> The oracle was first under the control of the [[Thesprotians]] before it passed into the hands of the [[Molossians]].<ref>{{harvnb|Potter|1751|loc=Chapter VIII, "Of the Oracles of Jupiter", p. 265}}.</ref> It remained an important religious sanctuary until the rise of [[Christianity]] during the [[Late Antiquity|Late Roman era]].