Dione
deity figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
fair Dione · lovely Dione · the goddess
in the texts
Against Meidias
Deity named in the Dodona oracle as recipient of an offering.
to Dione one ox and a brazen table for the offering which the people of the Athenians have offered.
Letters
Goddess paired with Zeus at the Dodona oracle, named among the divinities whose oracles affirm Athens's good fortune.
As for me, I assume that your city is the most fortunate in the world and the dearest to the gods, and I know that Zeus of Dodona and Dione and the Pythian Apollo are always saying this in their oracles and confirming with the seal of their approval the opinion that good fortune has her abode in the city among you.
On the False Embassy
Goddess named in the divine admonition read to the jury.
Therefore, you are all exhorted by Zeus, by Dione, by all the gods, to punish with one mind those who have made themselves the servants of your enemies.
Theogony
A goddess named among those praised by the Muses, and also the name of one of the daughters of Ocean and Tethys later in the catalog.
Also she brought forth a holy company of daughters who with the lord Apollo and the Rivers have youths in their keeping—to this charge Zeus appointed them—Peitho, and Admete, and Ianthe, and Electra, and Doris, and Prymno, and Urania divine in form, Hippo, Clymene, Rhodea, and Callirrhoe, Zeuxo and Clytie, and Idyia, and Pasithoe, Plexaura, and Galaxaura, and lovely Dione, Melobosis and Thoe and handsome Polydora,
Thence they arise and go abroad by night, veiled in thick mist, and utter their song with lovely voice, praising Zeus the aegis-holder, and queenly Hera of Argos who walks on golden sandals, and the daughter of Zeus the aegis-holder bright-eyed Athena, and Phoebus Apollo, and Artemis who delights in arrows, and Poseidon the earth holder who shakes the earth, and revered Themis, and quick-glancing …
Iliad
Mother of Aphrodite who comforts, heals, and consoles her wounded daughter with a recital of the gods' past sufferings.
"Bear it, my child," replied Dione, "and make the best of it.
Then shall his brave wife Aigialeia, daughter of Adrastos, rouse her whole house from sleep, wailing for the loss of her wedded lord, Diomedes the bravest of the Achaeans.
but Aphrodite flung herself on to the lap of her mother Dione, who threw her arms about her and caressed her, saying, "Which of the heavenly beings has been treating you in this way, as though you had been doing something wrong in the face of day?
In Defence of Euxenippus
The goddess (consort of Zeus at Dodona) whose statue the Athenians embellished at the god's command, an act that prompted Olympias's diplomatic complaints.
For Zeus of Dodona commanded you through the oracle to embellish the statue of Dione.
and having prepared a great deal of expensive finery for the goddess and dispatched envoys with a sacrifice at great expense, you embellished the statue of Dione in a manner worthy of yourselves and of the goddess.