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DIONE , in the earliest See also:

Greek See also:mythology, the wife of See also:Zeus. As such she is associated with Zeus Nalus (the See also:god of fertilizing moisture) at See also:Dodona (See also:Strabo vii. p. 329), by whose See also:side she sits, adorned with a bridal See also:veil and See also:garland and holding a See also:sceptre. As the See also:oracle declined in importance, her See also:place as the wife of Zeus was taken by See also:Hera. It is probable that in very See also:early times the cult of Dione existed in See also:Athens, where she had an See also:altar before the See also:Erechtheum. After her See also:admission to the See also:general religious See also:system of the Greeks, Dione was variously described. In the Iliad (v. 370) she is the See also:mother by Zeus of See also:Aphrodite, who is herself in later times called Dione (the epithet Dionaeus was given to See also:Julius See also:Caesar as claiming descent from See also:Venus). In See also:Hesiod (Theog. 353) she is one of the daughters of See also:Oceanus; in Pherecydes (ap. schoI. Iliad, xviii. 486), one of the See also:nymphs of Dodona, the nurses of See also:Dionysus; in See also:Euripides (frag.

177), the mother of Dionysus; in See also:

Hyginus (fab. 9. 82), the daughter of See also:Atlas, wife of See also:Tantalus and mother of See also:Pelops and See also:Niobe. Others make her a Titanid, the daughter of See also:Uranus and Gaea (See also:Apollodorus i. 1). Speaking generally, Dione may be regarded as the See also:female embodiment of the attributes of Zeus, to whose name her own is related as See also:Juno ( Jovino) to See also:Jupiter.

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