Deity · Individual

Jove

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Canonical name: Jove
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Deity
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

Olympian Jove

Epithet · Direct

sire of gods and men

Title · Direct

son of Saturn

Descriptive reference · Reported

King of kings

Title · Reported

Aegis-bearing Jove

Epithet · Direct

lord of thunder

Epithet · Direct

Father Jove

Title · Reported

avenger of all suppliants and foreigners in distress

Title · Remembered

lord of all

Title · Remembered

father of gods and men

Title · Remembered

father Jove

Title · Reported

protector of suppliants

Title · Reported

king Jove

Title · Reported

Jove the protector of strangers

Title · Disguised

mighty husband of Juno

Descriptive reference · Reported

her father Jove

Descriptive reference · Direct

Jove the king of heaven

Title · Reported

first and mightiest of all gods

Descriptive reference · Disguised

son of scheming Saturn

Descriptive reference · Direct

Location presence

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Jove’s house1 observation

·Direct

Jove was in his house when he spoke first to the assembled gods.

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“the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first”

Olympus1 observation

·Direct

Jove thundered from Olympus after hearing Ulysses’s prayer.

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“Thus did he pray. Jove heard his prayer and forthwith thundered high up among the clouds from the splendour of Olympus, and Ulysses was glad when he heard it. At the same time within the house, a miller-woman from hard by in the mill room lifted up her voice and gave him another sign. There were twelve miller-women whose business it was to grind wheat and barley which are the staff of life. The others had ground their task and had gone to take their rest, but this one had not yet finished, for she was not so strong as they were, and when she heard the thunder she stopped grinding and gave the sign to her master. ‘Father Jove,’ said she, ‘you, who rule over heaven and earth, you have thundered from a clear sky without so much as a cloud in it, and this means something for somebody; grant the prayer, then, of me your poor servant who calls upon you, and let this be the very last day that the suitors dine in the house of Ulysses. They have worn me out with labour of grinding meal for them, and I hope they may never have another dinner anywhere at all.’ ”

Claims

·Direct

Jove is the sire of gods and men and speaks first when the gods meet in his house.

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“the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first”

·Reported

Jove judges Ulysses the most capable man on earth and the most liberal in offerings to the immortal gods.

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“Ulysses than whom there is no more capable man on earth, nor more liberal in his offerings to the immortal gods that live in heaven”

·Reported

Telemachus says Jove, not bards, sends prosperity or suffering to humankind as he pleases.

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“it is Jove, not they, who makes them, and who sends weal or woe upon mankind according to his own good pleasure”

·Direct

Jove sends two eagles from the mountaintop over the assembly.

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“As he spoke Jove sent two eagles from the top of the mountain, and they flew on and on with the wind”

·Remembered

Jove vexes the Argives on their homeward voyage, and many meet bad ends.

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“Jove saw fit to vex the Argives on their homeward voyage; for they had not all been either wise or understanding, and hence many came to a bad end”

·Remembered

Jove hatches mischief against the returning Achaeans and cruelly prevents their homecoming.

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“Jove was hatching mischief against us. But in the morning some of us drew our ships into the water and put our goods with our women on board, while the rest, about half in number, stayed behind with Agamemnon. We—the other half—embarked and sailed; and the ships went well, for heaven had smoothed the sea. When we reached Tenedos we offered sacrifices to the gods, for we were longing to get home; cruel Jove, however, did not yet mean that we should do so”

·Remembered

Jove counsels evil against Menelaus, raising a hard wind and mountain-high waves.

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“Jove counselled evil against him and made it blow hard till the waves ran mountains high”

·Reported

Proteus orders Menelaus to sacrifice to Jove and the other gods before sailing.

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“you must offer sacrifices to Jove and to the rest of the gods before embarking”

·Direct

Jove is the lord of thunder and king of the gods.

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“with them, Jove the lord of thunder, who is their king”

·Reported

Jove announces the gods’ decree that Ulysses is to return home.

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“we have decreed that poor Ulysses is to return home”

·Reported

No other god can oppose Jove or transgress his orders.

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“none of us other gods can cross Jove, nor transgress his orders”

·Remembered

Jove struck Ulysses’s ship with lightning and sank it in mid-ocean, drowning the crew.

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“Jove had struck his ship with lightning and sunk it in mid ocean, so that all his crew were drowned”

·Reported

Ulysses perceives Jove as blackening heaven with clouds while winds raise the sea from every quarter.

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“How black is Jove making heaven with his clouds, and what a sea the winds are raising from every quarter”

·Reported

Nausicaa says Jove distributes prosperity to rich and poor as he chooses.

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“There is no accounting for luck; Jove gives prosperity to rich and poor just as he chooses”

·Reported

Jove protects strangers and foreigners in distress.

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“we must be kind to him, for strangers and foreigners in distress are under Jove’s protec tion”

·Reported

Jove, lord of thunder, protects all well-disposed suppliants.

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“Jove the lord of thunder, who takes all well disposed suppliants under his protection”

·Reported

Jove, lord of thunder, is the protector of all well-disposed suppliants.

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“make drink-offerings to Jove the lord of thunder, who is the protector of all well-disposed suppliants.”

·Remembered

Jove strikes Ulysses’s ship with thunderbolts and breaks it apart in mid-ocean.

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“Jove struck my ship with his thunderbolts, and broke it up in mid-ocean”

·Reported

Ulysses asks Jove to let Alcinous fulfill his promises and send him home.

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“Father Jove, grant that Alcinous may do all as he has said, for so he will win an imperishable name among mankind, and at the same time I shall return to my country.”

·Reported

Demodocus sings that evil falls upon Danaans and Trojans by Jove’s will.

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“Here was the beginning of the evil that by the will of Jove fell both upon Danaans and Trojans”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Direct

“Olympian Jove”

·Direct

“Jove sent two eagles from the top of the mountain”

·Remembered

“Jove saw fit to vex the Argives on their homeward voyage”

·Reported

“No one, my sons, can hold his own with Jove”

·Direct

“Jove the lord of thunder, who is their king”

·Reported

“Jove gives prosperity to rich and poor just as he chooses”

·Reported

“strangers and foreigners in distress are under Jove’s protec tion”

·Reported

“Jove the lord of thunder, who is the protector of all well-disposed suppliants”

·Reported

“by the will of Jove”

·Remembered

“by Jove’s will I met with on my return from Troy”

·Remembered

“Jove had made him captain over the winds”

·Reported

“served Jove with all their might”

·Reported

“Father Jove”

·Remembered

“Jove let fly with his thunderbolts”

·Direct

“in honour of Jove who is the lord of all”

·Reported

“prayer to father Jove”

·Reported

“Father Jove”

·Direct

“And Jove answered”

·Direct

“Jove’s daughter Minerva”

·Reported

“Jove the protector of suppliants”

·Reported

“Jove’s daughter Minerva”

·Reported

“daughters of Jove”

·Reported

“May Jove, sir, and the rest of the gods grant you your heart’s desire”

·Disguised

“Jove counselled their destruction”

·Reported

“Jove, the mighty husband of Juno”

·Reported

“Jove has made us a race of only sons”

·Reported

“Jove the king of heaven”

·Reported

“May Jove, and all the other gods”

·Direct

“Jove may set them on to quarrel”

·Reported

“Great Goddess Diana, daughter of Jove”

·Direct

“Jove heard his prayer and forthwith thundered high up among the clouds from the splendour of Olympus”

·Direct

“Jove thundered loudly as a sign”

·Direct

“Then Jove’s daughter Minerva came up to them”

·Remembered

“Jove therefore struck the ship with his thunderbolts”

·Remembered

“Jove had loved you better from first to last than any other hero”

·Direct

“Father, son of Saturn, king of kings”

·Direct

“And Jove answered”

·Direct

“the son of Saturn sent a thunderbolt of fire”