Historical Resources: References

Primary

• Virgil, Aeneid, 3.466.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women, fr. 181.
• Servius, Commentary on the Aeneid of Virgil, 3.466.
• Hesiod, Eoiai, fr. 97.
• Aeschylus, Fragments (Sommerstein, 2009), fr. 20.
• Strabo, Geography, 7 fr. 1c and 2 and 7 fr. 3.
• Herodotus, Histories, 1.46-1.54 and 2.54-58.
• Homer, Iliad, 5.370 and 16.233-238.
• Aristotle, Meteorologia, 352a.
• Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 4.1.
• Homer, Odyssey, 14.327-30.
• Plato, Phaedrus, 275.
• Euripides, Select Papyri, Volume 3: Poetry (Page, 1941), Melanippe Captive.
• Hesiod, Theogony, 353.
• Sophocles, Trachiniae, 155-172.

Secondary

• Bosman, P. 2016. ‘The “Dodona Bronze” Revisited’. Acta Classica, 59, 184-192.
• Buxton, R. 1994. Imaginary Greece: The Contexts of Mythology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Carapanos, C. 1877. ‘Dodone et ses ruines’. Revue Archéologique, 33, 397-405.
• Chapinal-Heras, D. 2017. ‘Between the Oak and the Doves: Changes in the Sanctuary of Dodona over the Centuries’ in Simple Twists of Faith: Cambiare culto, cambiare fede: persone e luoghi - Changing Beliefs, Changing Faiths: People and Places, edited by S. Marchesini and J. Nelson, 17-38, Novoa. Verona, Italy: Alteritas.
• Chapinal-Heras, D. 2021. Experiencing Dodona: The Development of the Epirote Sanctuary from Archaic to Hellenistic Times. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Dakaris, S.I. 1971. Archaeological Guide to Dodona. Cultural Society ‘The Ancient Dodona’.
• Dieterle, M. 2007. Dodona: Religionsgeschichtliche und Historische Untersuchungen zur Entstehung und Entwicklung des Zeus-Heiligtums. Hildesheim: Olms.
• Dieterle, M. 2012. ‘Dodona’. The Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, 26 October. Available at https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah04090. (Accessed 1 November 2021).
• Dillon, M. 1997. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge.
• Eidinow, E. 2007. Oracles, Curses, and Risk Among the Ancient Greeks. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Eidinow, E. 2018. ‘Oracles and Models: Ancient and Modern Ways of Telling the Future’. The Conversation, 24 February. Available at https://theconversation.com/oracles-and-models-ancient-and-modern-ways-of-telling-the-future-90124. (Accessed: 1 November 2021).
• Emmerling, T.E. 2012. Studien zu Datierung, Gestalt und Funktion der “Kultbauten” im Zeus-Heiligtum von Dodona. Dissertation, Kovac. Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg.
• Fotiadi, M. 2018. Dedications at ancient Dodona. University of Birmingham. M.A.
• Graf, F. 2015. ‘Zeus’. Oxford Classical Dictionary, 30 July. Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.6949. (Accessed 1 November 2021).
• Graham, D.W., Hintz, E. 2010. ‘An Ancient Greek Sighting of Halley's Comet?’ Journal of Cosmology, Vol. 9, 3030-3036.
• Hammond, N.G.L. 1967. Epirus: The Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and the Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hammond, N.G.L. 1997. ‘Physical Features and Historical Geography’ in Epirus: 4000 Years of Greek History and Civilization, edited by M.B. Sakellariou, 12-31. Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S.A.
• Johnston, S.I. 2008. Ancient Greek Divination. Malden, Ma: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Johnston, S.I. 2015. ‘Oracles and Divination’ in The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, edited by E. Eidinow and J. Kindt, 477-489. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Korakes, G. 2015. Dasike Botanike: Autofue Dentra kai Thamnoi Tes Ellades. Sundesmos Ellenikon Akademaikon Bibliothekon.
• Mylonopoulos, J. 2006. ‘Das heiligtum des Zeus in Dodona. Zwischen orakel und venatio’, in Archaölogie Und Ritual. Auf der Suche nach der Rituellen Handlung in den Antiken Kulturen Ägyptens und Griechenlands, edited by J. Mylonopoulos and H. Roeder, 185–214. Wien: Phoibos.
• Parke, H.W. 1967. The Oracles of Zeus: Dodona, Olympia, Ammon. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Parke, H.W. 1967. Greek Oracles. London: Hutchinson.
• Piccinini, J. 2013. ‘Beyond Prophecy: The Oracular Tablets of Dodona as Memories of Consultation’. Incidenza dell'Antico, 11, 63-76.
• Piccinini, J. 2016. ‘Renaissance or Decline? The Shrine of Dodona in the Hellenistic Period’, in Hellenistic Sanctuaries: Between Greece and Rome, edited by M. Melfi and O. Bobou, 152-169. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Quantin, F. 2008. ‘Les oikoi, Zeus Naios et les Naia’. Kernos, Vol. 21, 9-48.
• Rackham, O. 2015. ‘Greek Landscapes: Profane and Sacred’, in Human Development in Sacred Landscapes: Between Ritual Tradition, Creativity and Emotionality, edited by L. Käppel and V. Pothou, 35-50, Goettingen: V & R unipress.
• Sommerstein, A. H. 2009. (ed. and trans.) Aeschylus. Fragments. Loeb Classical Library 505. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Stara, K., R. Tsiakiris & J.L.G. Wong. 2015. ‘The Trees of the Sacred Natural Sites of Zagori, NW Greece’. Landscape Research, 40 (7), 884-904.
• Stoneman, R. 2011. The Ancient Oracles: Making the Gods Speak. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
• van Straten, F. 1990. ‘Votives and votaries in Greek sanctuaries’, in Le sanctuaire grec, edited by O. Reverdin and P. Grange, 247–290. Geneva: Vandoeuvres.
• Tzedakis, P.C. 1994. ‘Vegetation Change through Glacial—Interglacial Cycles: A Long Pollen Sequence Perspective’. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 345 (1314), 403-432.
• Page, D. 1941. (trans.) Select Papyri. Poetry. Tragedy, 5th and 4th Centuries B.C. Loeb Classical Library 360. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Further Resources

• Theoi Greek Mythology - Exploring Mythology in Classical Literature & Art
• Dodona Archaeological Site (ancient-greece.org)
• Metamorphoses: Tales of Change (Cambridge School Classics Project)