InGreek mythology,Dodone (Ancient Greek: Δωδώνης) was said to be one of theOceanid nymphs^[1] (the 3,000 daughters of theTitansOceanus andTethys), after whom the ancient city ofDodona was named. The 6th century AD grammarianStephanus of Byzantium (s.v.Δωδὠνη),^[2] writes that according to Thrasyboulos (FHG II 464, a), as reported byEpaphroditus (fr. 57 Braswell–Billerbeck)^[3] in his commentary onCallimachus'sAetia (fr. 53 Pfeiffer),^[4] the ancient cityDodona was named after an Oceanid nymph named Dodone.

Stephanus further notes that, according toAkestodorus, the city was instead named after Dodon, a son ofZeus andEuropa, but concludes that it is more likely that the city was named after the river Dodon, as Herodian says. According to Schol.Iliad 16.233) the city was named after Dodon or Dodone the wife ofDeucalion who named the city after her, and according toEustathius, onIliad 2.750, the city was named after Dodone, a heroine or Oceanid, or after Dodon.^[5]

• Braswell, Bruce Karl, Billerbeck, Magarethe,The Gramarian Epaphroditus: Testimonia and Fragments, Peter Lang, 2007.ISBN 9783039114504.
• Harder, Annette,Callimachus: Aetia: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2012.ISBN 978-0-19-958101-6. (two volume set).
• Meineke, August,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorvm quae svpersvnt, Berolini: Impensis G. Reimeri, 1849.Internet Archive.

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