entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note ENT_DIONE,SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY,scholarly attestation,Library 1.3.1; Titaness or Oceanid; in Apollodorus mother of Dionysus in some accounts ENT_DIONE,SRC_HESIOD_THEOGONY,direct attestation,"Theogony 353: Dione is an Oceanid, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys; Homer makes her an Olympian, the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus (Iliad 5.370) — a rival tradition to Hesiod's sea-foam Aphrodite birth; Hesiod's Theogony establishes Dione as an Oceanid; the two traditions coexist" ENT_DIONE,SRC_HOMER_ILIAD_ODYSSEY,direct attestation,"Dione appears in Iliad V.370-430 as Aphrodite's mother: after Diomedes wounds Aphrodite, she flies to Olympus and is comforted by Dione; this is the only major appearance of Dione as Aphrodite's mother (contrasting with the sea-foam Hesiodic tradition); Iliad V.370" ENT_DIONE,SRC_THEOI_GODS,index attestation,Literary attestation in classical/mythographic tradition; cult evidence varies by entity. ENT_DIONE,SRC_THEOI_HOME,index attestation,"Attested in Theoi Project index (Greek gods, spirits, heroes in classical literature)."