Jupiter

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.3 the adulterer

  Jupiter, the serial seducer of myth; here in the swan's shape ('the river-bird') with Leda, then as the bull with Europa.

• The Loves §1.7 Jove

  King of the gods; 'paying vows to Jove' belongs to the imagined triumph the poet sarcastically grants himself.

• The Loves §1.13 father of the gods

  Jupiter, who doubled a single night (to lie with Alcmena) so as 'not to see' the dawn so soon.

• The Art of Love §1.3 did for Jove

  Jupiter (Jove), king of the gods, who loved Io; the goddess 'makes many women do what she did for Jove.'

• The Art of Love §2.2 Jupiter on high

  Supreme god of the Roman sky, whom Daedalus begs to pardon his flight through the air.

• The Heroides §3 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods; Achilles descends from him through Aegina and Aeacus.

• The Heroides §4 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods; also the divine ancestor of Phaedra's Cretan line through Europa.

• The Heroides §6 Jupiter

  King of the gods, invoked as the just power Hypsipyle prays will avenge her on Medea.

• The Heroides §8 Jove

  Jupiter, head of the line of Tantalus and Pelops, from whom Orestes counts himself fifth in descent; also the 'father of the race' sworn by.

• The Heroides §9 Jove

  Jupiter, Hercules' divine father (who lengthened the night of his begetting) and Deianira's 'thundering' father-in-law.

• The Heroides §9 father-in-law

  Jupiter, who 'thunders with swift horses,' Deianira's divine father-in-law through Hercules.

• The Heroides §10 Jove

  Jupiter, reared as a boy on Crete; the island is 'known to the boy Jove.'

• The Heroides §11 Jove

  Jupiter, head of the divine line from which Canace claims descent.

• The Heroides §13 Jove the Restorer

  Jupiter as 'Jupiter Reductor,' bringer of safe returns, to whom Laodamia prays her husband may dedicate his arms.

• The Heroides §14 Jove

  Jupiter, whose love of Io drew down Juno's jealousy.

• The Heroides §14 great Jove

  Jupiter, whose forbidden love made Io 'a rival to be feared' by Juno.

• The Heroides §16 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods, whose command Mercury bore; father of Helen and ancestor of Paris's line.

• The Heroides §16 Jupiter

  Jupiter, forced (as Paris jeers) to be father-in-law to Helen's tainted house.

• The Heroides §17 Jove

  Jupiter, who as a swan begot Helen on Leda; the 'Jove' by whom Helen is no longer 'fortunate in fault.'

• The Heroides §17 Jupiter

  King of the gods, great-grandsire of Helen's father-in-law and the glory of her house.

• The Heroides §17 the swan

  Jupiter in the form of a swan, who deceived Leda — the 'feathered adulterer.'

• The Heroides §18 Jove

  Jupiter, who loved Callisto (the Bear); his star-love too Leander rejects as a guide.

• Letters from the Black Sea §1.7 struck by Jove

  Jupiter (Jove) the thunderer, here a figure for Augustus, whose 'thunderbolt' of relegation struck Ovid; even a glancing blow from such a hand wounds deep.

• Letters from the Black Sea §2.2 the Tarpeian Thunderer

  Jupiter Capitolinus (the Tarpeian Thunderer), here paired with the 'Roman divinities' of the imperial house whom Messalinus worships.

• The Festivals §proem for Jove

  Jupiter, to whom a white lamb was offered on the Ides of each month.

• The Festivals §4.proem Jove

  The supreme god; through his union with the Pleiad Electra he begins the Trojan-Julian line.

• The Festivals §5.proem Jupiter

  King of the gods, the sky-god; here the infant suckled by Amalthea's goat and lord of the Capitol.

• The Festivals §6.6 Flamen Dialis

  The priest of Jupiter, bound by many ritual taboos; his wife (the Flaminica) explains the impure days of early June.

• The Festivals §6.9 Jupiter the Baker

  Jupiter Pistor, honored for the ruse (bread flung at the besieging Gauls) that broke their hope of starving the Capitol.

• The Festivals §6.12 Jupiter the Unconquered

  Jupiter Invictus, given a temple on this Ides.

• The Festivals §6.27 Jupiter the Stayer

  Jupiter Stator, who 'stayed' the fleeing Romans in battle; his temple was founded by Romulus by the Palatine.

• Ibis §3 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods, invoked among the powers of the upper world.

• Metamorphoses §1.3 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods; his reign begins the Silver Age, when he shortened the eternal spring.

• Metamorphoses §2.25 the great Thunderer

  Jupiter, hurler of the thunderbolt; here his consort Juno is named obliquely.

• Metamorphoses §3.38 the thefts of Jove

  Jupiter (Jove), king of the gods, who in the shape of a bull had carried off Europa — one of his many amorous 'thefts'.

• Metamorphoses §8.192 Jove

  Jupiter, said to have been born and nursed in Crete.

• Metamorphoses §8.223 Jupiter

  Jupiter, who with Mercury visited Phrygia in mortal disguise to test its hospitality.

• Metamorphoses §8.227 son of Saturn

  Jupiter, son of Saturn, who grants Baucis and Philemon their wish.

• Metamorphoses §10.293 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods, to whom all yields, briefly invoked before the lighter theme.

• Metamorphoses §12.351 Jove

  King of the gods (Jove), to whom the Greeks sacrifice at Aulis.

• Metamorphoses §13.384 Jupiter

  The supreme god, invoked here as witness.

• Metamorphoses §15.490 armour-bearer of Jove

  The eagle, Jupiter's bird.

• Metamorphoses §15.518 Jupiter rules

  King of the gods, ruler of heaven as Augustus of earth.

• Metamorphoses §15.519 Jove's anger

  Jupiter, whose wrath cannot destroy the poet's finished work.

• The Cure for Love §12 Jove's right hand

  Jupiter, king of the gods, whose thunderbolts strike the highest peaks — an image for envy assailing the eminent.

• Sorrows §1.1 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods and wielder of the thunderbolt; Ovid's standing figure for Augustus, whose 'fire' he dreads even in thunder.