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The shrine of Zeus in the city of Dodona was the oldest and most revered oracle in ancient Greece.
Messages were interpreted by priests, known as Selloi, who interpreted the rustling of oak leaves or the sound of the waters of a spring; Dodona was situated in the far northwestern part of the Greek mainland in the district of Epirus.
The Oracle at Dodona was established by one of two Egyptian priestesses who had been carried away by Phoenicians and sold as slaves; the inhabitants of Dodona told the historian Herodotus that the first oracle arrived, not as a woman, but as a black dove with human speech; Herodotus discounted this story but did not doubt the veracity or antiquity of the oracle.
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