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Dodona
The oracular oak-shrine of Jupiter in Epirus (Chaonia) that foretold Hercules' death.
Reading notes
- Hercules on Oeta §1501 the prophetic oak
The oracular oak of Dodona in Epirus, whose rustling foretold that Hercules would die by the hand of one already dead.
- Hercules on Oeta §1649 the once-speaking oak of Chaonia
The oak of Dodona in Chaonia (Epirus), whose timber and oracular voice were proverbial.