Dione
The mother of Aphrodite who tends to her daughter's wounds in the Iliad after Aphrodite is hurt by a mortal. She is seen as a female counterpart to Zeus and is thought to etymologically derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *Dyeus.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in the Iliad; etymologically linked to Proto-Indo-European *Dyeus.
Relationships
- parent of
- Aphrodite, Bacchus, Aphrodite Pandemos, Niobe, Pelops
- co occurs with
- Phoebe, Nyche, Leucophryne, Ichnaea, Byblian Aphrodite, Harmonia, Cadmus, Ilat, Aphrodite Urania, Aëdon, Amphion, H₂éwsōs, Melinoe, Zeus, Apollo, Hera, Amphitrite, Eileithyia, Themis, Iris, Leto, Venus, Derceto, Isis, Hathor, Horus, Nephthys, Ouranos, Serket, Hades, Ares, Cronus, Artemis (Diana), Persephone, Ishtar, Hephaestus, Tammuz, Ariadne, Atargatis, Hermes
- manifests as
- Baalat Gebal
- aspect of
- Hebe
Mentioned by
- H₂éwsōs
- Melinoe
- Zeus
- Apollo
- Hera
- Amphitrite
- Eileithyia
- Themis
- Iris
- Leto
- Venus
- Derceto
- Isis
- Hathor
- Horus
- Nephthys
and 23 more
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“In the Iliad, Aphrodite is hurt by a mortal and her wounds are tended to by her mother Dione. Dione is seen as a female counterpart to Zeus, and is thought to etymologically derive from the Proto-Indo-European root *Dyeus.”
#18296 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“The name of the goddess appears above her head: Dione (ΔΙⲰΝΗ), Phoebe (ΦΟΙΒΙΗ), and the obscure Nyche (ΝΥΧΙΗ).”
#18889 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“After having arrived at Delos, she labored for nine nights and nine days, in the presence of Dione, Rhea, Ichnaea, Themis and Amphitrite.”
#22711 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Ovid explicitly mentions Derceto (Latin: Derceti) of Babylonia transforming into a fish, Ovid's version of this first myth (detailed below) is recorded in Fasti, and fails to mention the goddess in Syria (Dione) metamorphosing into fish-shape.”
#22874 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos, which he presents as a Greek a translation of the works of a Phoenician author, Sanchuniathon, but which modern researchers consider to be a combination of both Phoenician and Greco-Roman elements, Baalat Gebal is referred to as Dione.”
#23356 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001