numerous epithets of Jupiter indicate the importance and variety of the god's functions in ancient Roman religion. Jupiter's most ancient attested forms of cult...

god Taranis. Jupiter Uxellinus, Jupiter as a god of high mountains. In addition, many of the epithets of Zeus can be found applied to Jupiter, by interpretatio...

several other figures of the mystery cults, Jupiter Dolichenus was one of the so-called 'oriental' gods; that is Roman re-inventions of ostensibly foreign...

occur as epithets of Jupiter and Juno. When the bride has been led home, "the god Domitius is employed to install her in her house." List of Roman birth...

According to the Roman historian Livy, Jupiter Indiges is the name given to the deified hero Aeneas. In some versions of his story, he is raised up to become...

Iuuntus, and one of the epithets of Jupiter is Ioviste, a superlative form of iuuen- meaning "the youngest". Iuventas, "Youth", was one of two deities who...

pagan formula addressed to Jupiter. Its usage while the Roman Empire was a polytheistic state referred to Jupiter, the chief god of the Roman pantheon polytheists:...

variety of epithets that they can employ that have different meanings. The most common are fixed epithets and transferred epithets. A fixed epithet is the...

Italic god, according to Varro. Hartung is inclined to consider him an epithet of Jupiter, since falandum, according to Festus, was the Etruscan name for "heaven...

care, and the filial respect owed to them. Pater was found as an epithet of Dis, Jupiter, Mars, and Liber, among others. "The Great Mother" was a title...

Jupiter Tonans (Latin: Ivppiter Tonans, lit. 'Thundering Jove'), was the aspect (numen) of Jupiter venerated in the Temple of Jupiter Tonans, which Augustus...

youthful Jupiter, and Feronia as Juno. On coins his name appears as "Axur" or "Anxur". There exists in Terracina the ruins of a temple to Jupiter Anxurus...

Acron, son of Xenon, an ancient Greek physician Acron or Acro, a king of the Caeninenses, whom Romulus slew in battle - see Epithets of Jupiter Helenius...

divine aura of the hero (the lúan of Cú Chulainn). It is presumably analogous to Oscan Loucetius ‘light-bringer’, an epithet of Jupiter. About a dozen...

The Temple of Jupiter Invictus (Latin: Aedes Iovis Invicti, lit. 'Temple of Jupiter the Unconquered'), sometimes known as the Temple of Jupiter Victor (Latin:...

associated at the rite of the Tigillum Sororium of 1 October, in which they bear the epithets Ianus Curiatius and Iuno Sororia. These epithets, which swap the...

Aeneas two epithets of his own, in the Aeneid: pater and pius. The epithets applied by Virgil are an example of an attitude different from that of Homer,...

to be either the son of Maia, one of the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas, and Jupiter, or of Caelus and Dies. In his earliest forms, he appears to have...

Romans of all classes, the luckiest, best possible roll was known as "Venus". Like other major Roman deities, Venus was given a number of epithets that...

with whom he fathered Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno, Ceres and Vesta. Saturn was especially celebrated during the festival of Saturnalia each December...

Brittonic god of the confluences of rivers Cunomaglus - a Brittonic hunter god Cuslanus - a god in Cisalpine Gaul associated with Jupiter Deus Latis -...

Ploutodotḗr (Πλουτοδοτήρ, [pluː.to.doˈtεːr]), meaning "giver of wealth". Epithets of Hades include Agesander (Ἀγήσανδρος, [aˈgεː.san.dros]) and Agesilaos...

children of Cronus. Zeus was called by numerous alternative names or surnames, known as epithets. Some epithets are the surviving names of local gods...

Temple of Jupiter Feretrius (Latin: Aedes Iovis Feretrii) was, according to legend, the first temple ever built in Rome (the second being the Temple of Jupiter...

and five points of light visible by the naked eye that moved across the background of the stars—namely, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Planets...

Summanus (Latin: Summānus) was the god of nocturnal thunder in ancient Roman religion, as counterposed to Jupiter, the god of diurnal (daylight) thunder. His...

of the Roman state. The nomen Statorius is derived from Stator, an epithet of Jupiter and Mars. Chase classifies it among those gentilicia that either originated...

there by the Etruscan colonists. Some of Tinia's possible epithets are detailed on the Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a liver used for haruspicy. These...

religiously influenced by the cult of Iuppiter Latiaris, an epithet of Jupiter, and venerated this god as the high protector of the league. The accounting provided...

later epigraphic record of Gaul and Britain. Not infrequently, their names are coupled with native Celtic theonyms and epithets, such as Mercury Visucius...