The sanctuary of Dodona, the oldest oracle in Greece, lays between the mountains Tomaros and Manoliassa, in the middle of a narrow valley, which has been for ages one of the main communication axes between Epirus and the sea.
Zeus had been worshiped here along with Dione, a female deity who probably substituted Mother-Earth, being worshiped earlier.
The questions of the pilgrims were orally expressed at the beginning, while later (from the 6th c. BC) started being engraved on small lead sheets. When Molossians dominated the entire area (early 4th c. BC), the first buildings appeared and, one century later, during the kinship of Pyrrhus, an ambitious construction programme was carried out. The buildings got restored after the destructive invasion of the Aetolians (219 BC), and Dodona had another period of glory. The Romans destroyed the site in 167 BC, while Dodona’s last glimpse took place during the imperial times (late 1st – late 4th c. AD). With the promotion of Christianity to the empire’s official cult, Dodona got a bishop and a christian church got built within the site.
The Sanctuary of Dodona
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