ドドナでのゼウスの妃はヘラではなく、「ゼウス」の女性形であるディオーネという女神であった。タイタネスであることから、ヘレニズム以前のもっと強力な神であり、神託所の本来の住人であった可能性を指摘する声もある。
==== The Oracle at Siwa シワの神託 ====
The [[oracle of Ammon]] at the [[Siwa Oasis]] in the Western Desert of [[Egypt]] did not lie within the bounds of the Greek world before [[Alexander the Great|Alexander]]'s day, but it already loomed large in the Greek mind during the archaic era: [[Herodotus]] mentions consultations with [[Zeus Ammon]] in his account of the [[Greco-Persian Wars|Persian War]]. Zeus Ammon was especially favored at [[Sparta]], where a temple to him existed by the time of the [[Peloponnesian War]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D18 3.18].</ref>