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Dodona

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Dodona
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None
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Location
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Individual
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Editorial note
This location is named within Ulysses’s lying Cretan biography.

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Present entities

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UlyssesCharacter1 observation
·Disguised

In the Cretan story, Pheidon said Ulysses had gone to Dodona.

See evidence text
“‘There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey. He showed me also the treasure of gold, and wrought iron that Ulysses had got together. There was enough to keep his family for ten generations, so much had he left in the house of king Pheidon. But the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove’s mind from the god’s high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret. Moreover the king swore in my presence, making drink-offerings in his own house as he did so, that the ship was by the water side, and the crew found, that should take him to his own country. He sent me off however before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, and he told those in charge of her to be sure and take me safely to King Acastus. ”

Claims

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·Disguised

Dodona is Ulysses’s alleged destination for consulting Jove about whether to return openly or secretly.

See evidence text
“Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove’s mind from the god’s high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret”
·Disguised

Dodona is presented as the place where Ulysses consults Jove’s mind about returning openly or secretly.

See evidence text
“Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove’s mind from the high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly or in secret.”

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Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Disguised
“Ulysses had gone to Dodona”
·Disguised
“Ulysses had gone to Dodona”

Passage preview

Book 14 · Passage 17

‘There it was that I heard news of Ulysses, for the king told me he had entertained him, and shown him much hospitality while he was on his homeward journey. He showed me also the treasure of gold, and wrought iron that Ulysses had got together. There was enough to keep his family for ten generations, so much had he left in the house of king Pheidon. But the king said Ulysses had gone to Dodona that he might learn Jove’s mind from the god’s high oak tree, and know whether after so long an absence he should return to Ithaca openly, or in secret. Moreover the king swore in my presence, making drink-offerings in his own house as he did so, that the ship was by the water side, and the crew found, that should take him to his own country. He sent me off however before Ulysses returned, for there happened to be a Thesprotian ship sailing for the wheat-growing island of Dulichium, and he told those in charge of her to be sure and take me safely to King Acastus.