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Jove’s house

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Canonical name
Jove’s house
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Location
Scope
Individual
Parent location
None
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

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palace of Olympian Jove

Descriptive reference · Simile

Present entities

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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JoveDeity1 observation
·Direct

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

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

Claims

2
·Direct

Jove’s house is the meeting place of the assembled gods.

See evidence text
“the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove”
·Simile

Jove’s palace provides Telemachus’s comparison for Menelaus’s splendor.

See evidence text
“it is like seeing the palace of Olympian Jove”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“the house of Olympian Jove”
·Simile
“the palace of Olympian Jove”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 3

Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world’s end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East. {1} He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first. At that moment he was thinking of Aegisthus, who had been killed by Agamemnon’s son Orestes; so he said to the other gods: