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Dodone (mythology)

Sources

Ancient

Epaphroditus, fr. 57 Braswell–Billerbeck (Braswell, pp. 240, 242)

57 (b) According to Thrasyboulos (FHG II 464, a) [the city] was named after Dodone, one of the Ocean nymphs, as Epaphroditus says in his Commentary on the second book of the Aitia [of Kallimachos].

Callimachus, Aetia fr. 53 Pfeiffer (Harder, p. 196)

According to Thrasybulus, as Epaphroditius commenting on book 2 of the Aetia says, it (sc. Dodona) is called after Dodona one of the Oceanid nymphs.

[compare with fragment II. 7 (24): Dodona: it gets it's name, according to Epaphroditus in his commentary on Aitia ii, from Dodona, one of the Oceanid nymphs.]

Modern

Harder

p. 383

53 The etymology of Dodona was discussed by Epaphroditus in his commentary on Aetia 3, who said that according to Thrasybulbus it was called after Dodone, a daughter of Oceanus. Stephanus of Byzantium, who quotes the fragment, adds that according to Acestodorus it was called after Dodonus or Dodon (according to Meineke's text), a son of Zeus and Europa, but that it was probably called after the river Dodon. The tradition is obviously somewhat confused; cf. Σ T Il.16,233 (Dodona called after Dodon or Dodone, with the addition that Deucalion married Dodone and called the town after her); Eust.p. 335,44 f. (on Il.2,750) (Dodona called after Dodone, a heroine or Oceanid, or after Dodon) and on D.P.428 (Dodona called after Dodone, the daughter of Zeus and Europa, or after the river Dodon).

Larson

p. 311

137. ... Okeanid nymph Dodone: Epaphroditus (first century C.E.) in Steph. Byz. s.v. Δωδὠνη; cf. Schol. Hom. Il. 16.233 Erbse; Eust. Il. 2.70 (335.44); Etym. Magn. s.v. Δωδωναῖος.