In a description of a now-lost painting about this city, Philostratus the Elder claims it was home to a golden dove, and cites Homer's description that its priests, the Selloi, make "their couches upon the ground" and keep their feet unwashed.
In a description of a now-lost painting about this city, Philostratus the Elder claims it was home to a golden dove, and cites Homer's description that its priests, the Selloi, make "their couches upon the ground" and keep their feet unwashed. Herodotus's description of this town near Mount Tamaros describes how a black dove came to it, settled in one of its trees, and started uttering human speech. Priestesses called Peleiades tend to this town and are said to be children of the mother goddess Dione. Odysseus visited this town to answer his question of whether he should return to Ithaca openly or incognito, which its priestesses helped answer using rustling leaves. According to the Argonautica, the Argo talks because it was built using sacred wood from this town. For 10 points, name this ancient Greek city that is the site of the second-most important oracle in the Greek world.
In a description of a now-lost painting about this city, Philostratus the Elder claims it was home to a golden dove, and cites Homer's description that its priests, the Selloi, make "their couches upon the ground" and keep their feet unwashed.
Dodona