Jupiter

Also: Iuppiter Optimus Maximus

Roman tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: sky, thunder, oaths, the state
Symbols and attributes: Thunderbolt; eagle; oak
Parents (per the sources used): Saturn and Ops
Partner: Juno
Children: Minerva, Apollo, Diana, Mercury, Bacchus / Liber

Giacomo Caneva, photograph of a statue of Jupiter in the Campana collection, 1850s.

Key myth

Chief god of the Roman state, with the Capitoline temple as his main shrine. Generals celebrating a triumph dressed as Jupiter. His sky-father name is cognate with Zeus, Dyaus and Tiu.

Greek counterpart: Zeus on thegreekgods.org. Roman and Greek versions share names and stories in many places but began as different cults.

Primary sources

Livy, Ab urbe condita
Cicero, De natura deorum

All sources for the Roman pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Saturn, Ops.

Place in the family graph

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More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Jupiter: sky, storm and thunder, war and fighting. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Jupiter

Key myth

Primary sources

Place in the family graph

More traditions

Elsewhere in the world

Odin

Thor

Freyr

Freyja

Týr

Shu

Tefnut

Nut