Dionaea
Διώναια
(Διώναια), a metronymic form of Dione, and applied to her daughter Aphrodite. (Orph. Arg. 1320; Verg. A. 3.19.) The name is also applied as an epithet to things which were sacred to her, such as the dove. (Stat. Silv. 3.5. 80.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.