Dione dee oh NEE

The Mother of Aphrodite

Dione is one of the more mysterious Greek goddesses. Some believe that she is the personification of a more ancient Mother Goddess (Goddess of the Oak, from Asia Minor) and that the Greeks simply adopted her into their pantheon.

APHRODITE (foam-born)

ORIGIN Greek and Cypriot. Goddess of sexual love.

KNOWN PERIOD OF WORSHIP identified from circa 1300 BC (evolving from an earlier prehistoric Asiatic model), until Christianization (circa AD 400) and later.

SYNONYMS equating with IS ˇ TAR (Akkadian); ASTARTE (Syrian); AS ˇTORETH (Phoenician); Dione, Cytherea, VENUS (Roman).