 Though it never eclipsed the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi, Dodona gained a reputation far beyond Greece.In the "Argonautica" of Apollonius of Rhodes, a retelling of an older story of Jason and the Argonauts, Jason's ship, the "Argo", had the gift of prophecy, because it contained an oak timber spirited from Dodona.In c. 290 BCE, King Pyrrhus made Dodona the religious capital of his domain and beautified it by implementing a series of construction projects (i.e.