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For the oracle of Zeus at Dodona cf. Il. xvi. 233Ζεῦ ἄνα, Δωδωναῖε, Πελασγικέ” (cf. App. XV. 2). It was admittedly the oldest in Greece; this fact is one of the arguments for the view that the Greeks entered their country from the north-west, not from the east. For the oracle cf. P. Gardner (N. C. Gk. H. c. 14), Frazer (ii. 159-60), and Farnell (G. C. i. 38 seq.). Zeus, who is prominently an oracular god nowhere else in Greece proper, had the titles of Νάιος (i.e. a rain spirit) and Εὔδενδρος, i.e. he lives in the tree and speaks in its rustling. (For tree-worship cf. Tylor, P. C. ii3, p. 218; and Evans, J. H. S. 1901.)

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