[15], The Bibliotheca of the Pseudo-Apollodorus includes Dione among the Titans and makes her the child of Gaia and Uranus. Hier sollte eine Beschreibung angezeigt werden, diese Seite lässt dies jedoch nicht zu. [citation needed]. She and Zeus are called the parents of Aphrodite by some ancient sources. The priestesses and prophetesses at her shrine in Dodona were called Peleiades or the Doves, which was the sacred bird of her daughter, Aphrodite. [3] This association does not prevent her, however, from being worshipped along with Zeus as a deity of springs, making her a water-goddess. [1] Very little information exists about these nymphs or goddesses, although at least one is described as beautiful and is sometimes associated with water or the sea. In the Phoenician History, a literary work attributed to Sanchuniathon, a daughter of Uranus/Heaven and Gaia/Earth is called Dione and also Baaltis. The latter gave the city Byblos to Dione.
She was an oracle and was worshipped alongside Zeus at the earliest Oracle in Greece that was located at Dodona. Dione (/daɪˈoʊniː/; Ancient Greek: Διώνη "She-Zeus" or δῖος dios "divine one") is the name of four women in ancient Greek mythology, and one in the Phoenician religion described in the Sanchuniathon. Dione was a Titan goddess in Greek mythology, most probably a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and thus, an Oceanid. [14], The Bibliotheca of the Pseudo-Apollodorus includes Dione among the Titans and makes her the child of Gaia and Uranus. a Titan and a consort of Zeus. This placementTemplate:Ndashmaking her the offspring of Uranus and GaiaTemplate:Ndashis Homeric and contradicts the theory put forth by Erika Simon that the altar's organization was Hesiodic.
[15], The Bibliotheca of the Pseudo-Apollodorus includes Dione among the Titans and makes her the child of Gaia and Uranus. One source describes her as an ancient wife of Zeus. There was also another Dione, a nymph and the daughter of Atlas. Dione was the daughter of Okeanos, the personification of the sea, and his wife Tethynes.
It’s theorized that the Hellenic people first emerged in the Dodona region. [4], Following the deciphering of Linear B by Ventris and Chadwick in the 1950s, a goddess named Di-u-ja was found in the tablets. Enraged, Diomedes chases her and drives his spear into her hand between the wrist and palm.
This was considered to be a female counterpart of Zeus and identified with Dione by some scholars.[who? In Homer’s Iliad, when Aphrodite is wounded on the battlefield, she runs to Dione for comfort, sinking onto her lap. Enraged, Diomedes chases her and drives his spear into her hand between the wrist and palm. Dione (/daɪˈoʊniː/; Greek: Διώνη, Diōnē) was an ancient Greek goddess, Titaness[2] primarily known from Book V of Homer's Iliad, where she tends to the wounds suffered by her daughter Aphrodite.
In Book V of the Iliad, during the last year of the Trojan War, Aphrodite attempts to save her son Aeneas from the rampaging Greek hero Diomedes as she had previously saved her favorite Paris from his duel with Menelaus in Book III. Herodotus called this the oldest oracle in Greece and recorded two related accounts of its founding: the priests at Thebes in Egypt told him that two priestesses had been taken by Phoenician pirates, one to Libya and the other to Dodona and continued their earlier rites; the priestesses of Dodona claimed that two black doves[9] had flown to Libya and Dodona and commanded the creation of oracles to Zeus. According to some sources, she was the first wife of Zeus, with whom she had a daughter, the goddess Aphrodite. She is a sister of Kronos/Elus whom the latter made his wife after their father sent her, and her sisters, to kill Kronos/Elus. Károly Kerényi notes in this context that the name Dione resembles the Latin name Diana, and is a feminine form of the name Zeus (cf Latin deus, god), hence meaning "goddess of the bright sky". Hesiod gives as his parents Oceanus and Tethys, which integrate the Oceanides;. Dione is the wife left behind. [12] Dione's possible appearance in the east pediment of the Parthenon[13] would likewise place her among the children of Uranus and Gaia.
Dione is translated as "Goddess", and given the same etymological derivation as the names Zeus, Diana, et al. This video is unavailable. [18], The 5th-century grammarian Hesychius of Alexandria described Dione as the mother of Bacchus in her entry from his Alphabetical Collection of All Words. Dione is not mentioned in Hesiod's treatment of the Titans, although the name does appear in the Theogony among his list of Oceanids, the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys,[14] and according to Hesiod, Aphrodite was born from the foam created by the severed genitals of Uranus, when they were thrown into the sea by Cronus, after he castrated Uranus. Dione consoles her with other examples of gods wounded by mortals–Ares bound by the Aloadae and Hera and Hades shot by Heracles–and notes that Diomedes is risking his life by fighting against the gods. The mythology concerning Dione is not consistent across the existing sources. The process of each image is re-staged in different places and brought together as an act in the complete work. [17], The Genealogy or Preface of Gaius Julius Hyginus's Fabulae, lists Dione among the children of Gaia and Aether. See Also: Oceanus, Tethys, Zeus, Aphrodite. Dione consoles her with other examples of gods wounded by mortalsTemplate:NdashAres bound by the Aloadae and Hera and Hades shot by HeraclesTemplate:Ndashand notes that Diomedes is risking his life by fighting against the gods. [12] She is a sister of Kronos/Elus whom the latter made his wife after their father sent her, and her sisters, to kill Kronos/Elus. According to some sources, she was the first wife of Zeus, with whom she had a daughter, the goddess Aphrodite. Escorted by Iris to Ares, she borrows his horses and returns to Olympus. Dione stayed behind in Dodona while Zeus married other goddesses, most notably Hera. • Followers of Orpheus said Dione was a daughter of Uranus. "On Restoring the East Pediment of the Parthenon". In the Phoenician History, a literary work attributed to Sanchuniathon, a daughter of Uranus/Heaven and Gaia/Earth is called Dione and also Baaltis. [3], Following the deciphering of Linear B by Ventris and Chadwick in the 1950s, a goddess named Di-u-ja was found in the tablets. Dione was variously described. Dione is a water spirit. One source describes her as an ancient wife of Zeus.
[20], This article is about the Titaness in Greek mythology. Dione then heals her wounds and Zeus, while admonishing her to leave the battlefield, calls her daughter.
Dione was an ancient Greek goddess, Titaness primarily known from Book V of Homer's Iliad, where she tends to the wounds suffered by her daughter Aphrodite. She made an appearance in Homer's Iliad, when her daughter was wounded and she tried to heal her. She is called a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, hence an Oceanid, a water-nymph.