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DIONE, cult-partner of Zeus of Dodona (Strabo vii, 329). As the partner and wife of Zeus is normally Hera, Dione was variously described: in the Iliad (v. 37o) as mother by Zeus of Aphrodite; in Hesiod (Theog. 353) as a daughter of Oceanus.