DODONA

In Antiquity, the seat of the most ancient, ami one of the most celebrated oracles of Greece, sacred to Jupiter. By some writers its origin is attributed to Deucalion, who is said to have built the town of Dodona where it stood; but according to the traditions of the prieste es of the temple, it was founded by a dove, which, perching on the branch of an oak, recommended in a human voice that a temple should be erected to Jupiter in that place. Die situation of the oracle was in an extensive forest, the oaks of which are said to have been endowed with the gift 360 [s. 374]