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Definition of Dindymene
1. Noun. Great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Roman Ops.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dindymene
Literary usage of Dindymene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"3. a sanctuary of Mother Dindymene. A coin of Patrae (Fig. ... The central figure
is probably the image of Mother Dindymene ; the other figures are probably ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1898)
"... and we find amongst them the blind genera Dindymene, ... The genus
Dindymene (Corda)' belongs to the ..."
3. Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia: With Some Account of Their by William John Hamilton (1842)
"... was Mount Dindymene. The latter states that this river rises from the sacred
mountain ... while the river rises at the foot of Dindymene or Morad Dagh. ..."
4. Cyzicus: Being Some Account of the History and Antiquities of that City, and by Frederick William Hasluck (1910)
"The worship of Dindymene at ... and Dindymene, the latter especially after her
connection with the Argonaut myth, ... This aspect of the Dindymene or ..."
5. Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera of the Family Satyridæ in the Collection of by Arthur Gardiner Butler (1808)
"Papilio Dindymene, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. tab. 198. figs. F, G (1782). ...
Dindymene, Westwood in Gen. Diurn. Lepid. p. 365. n. 5 (1851). ..."
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