Dione (Titaness)

This article is about the Titaness in Greek mythology. For other Greek mythological figures named Dione, see Dione (mythology). For other uses, see Dione (disambiguation).

Dione
Goddess of fertility and prophecy
Dione in the north frieze of the Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum, Berlin
Genealogy
ParentsUranus and Gaia
or Aether and Gaia
or Oceanus and Tethys
SiblingsOceanids and Potamids or
ConsortZeus
ChildrenAphrodite (Homer)

In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Dione (/daɪˈoʊniː/; Ancient Greek: Διώνη, romanized: Diṓnē, lit. 'she-Zeus') is an oracular goddess and Titaness. She is primarily known from Book V of Homer's Iliad, where she tends to the wounds suffered by her daughter Aphrodite. In myth, Dione is either presented as an Oceanid— one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys— or the thirteenth Titan and a daughter of Gaia and Uranus.

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