Jove
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Jupiter · Jupiter Most High
spoken of as
1 expressionJupiter“Jove”1 mention
On the Commonwealth (Latin)
"Let us imitate, then, Aratus, who, setting out to speak of great matters, thinks one must begin from Jove.
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Tusculan Disputations
Chief god of the Roman pantheon, referenced in the Ganymede myth and in the lament over Priam's death.
"All these things I saw set aflame, Priam's life by violence reft away, Jove's altar fouled with blood.
nor do I listen to Homer, who says Ganymede was carried off by the gods for his beauty, to serve Jove his drink:
But let us suffer the poets to play, in whose fables we see even Jove himself engaged in this infamy:
Poems
Jupiter/Jove, invoked as the divine creator whose craftsmanship is evident in the beloved Fanny's form.
Her well-turn'd limbs confess, The lucky hand of Jove;
On the Commonwealth
Chief god of the Roman pantheon, invoked as the paradigmatic king of gods and men.
"Let us imitate, then, Aratus, who, setting out to speak of great matters, thinks one must begin from Jove.
For why should I call by the name of Jupiter Most High a man greedy of domination or of sole command, lording it over an oppressed people—why not rather a tyrant?
On the Nature of the Gods
The supreme sky-god of Roman religion, identified with the heavens themselves in the Stoic argument.
Were it not so, how could Ennius have said, with the assent of all, 'Behold this gleaming vault on high, whom all men call upon as Jove' — and that very god both Jove, and lord of all things, and ruler of all by his motion, and, as the same Ennius says, 'the father of gods and men,' a god present and all-powerful?