“There is a land...with many crops and good meadowland, wealthy in flocks and shambling cattle; therein dwell men rich in sheep and rich in cattle, men beyond number, tribes of mortal men. And there, at its edge, a city is built, Dodona; and Zeus loved it and made it to be his oracle, prized among men.” This is the earliest description of the setting of Dodona, provided by Hesiod, a Greek poet who is generally thought to have been active about the same time as Homer (between 750 and 650 BCE). The oracle of Dodona was considered the most ancient in Greece, and was only supplanted by Delphi due to its great distance from the major classical city-states.