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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

of common epithets shared by multiple divinities. Even in invocations, which generally required precise naming, the Romans sometimes spoke of gods as groups...

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...

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...

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...

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

animals were wolves and goats. Because of his multiple attributes, the Etruscan fire god Śuri bore many epithets, among them infernal theonyms – consistently...

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...

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...

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

number of epithets representing different aspects or roles, or representing syncretisms with non-Roman deities. The most common and significant of these...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

most restrictive definition of the term: the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, and the giant planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune...

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...

the tale of the Raptus, also known as "The Abduction of Europa" and "The Seduction of Europa", substituting the god Jupiter for Zeus. The myth of Europa...