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Iovis), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology. Jupiter was the chief deity of Roman state religion throughout the Republican and Imperial eras, until Christianity became the dominant religion of the Empire.
The god is honoured as summus. The peasant may hope he shall receive a benefit, but he does not say it. This interpretation finds support in the analogous urban ceremony of the epulum Iovis, from which the god derives the epithet of Epulo and which was a magnificent feast accompanied by flutes. [25]
The Roman god Jupiter (Iovis-pater), 1811. Ritual and formulaic expressions stemming from the form *Dyēus Ph 2 ter ("Father Dyēus") were inherited in the following liturgic and poetic traditions: PIE: *dyēus ph 2 tḗr, 'Father Sky' (voc. *dyeu ph 2 ter, "O Father Sky"), [2] [3] [72] Greek: Zeus Patēr (Ζεῦς πατήρ; voc. Ζεῦ ...
Although the word Capitolium (pl. Capitolia) could be used to refer to any temple dedicated to the Capitoline Triad, it referred especially to the temple on the Capitoline Hill in Rome known as aedes Iovis Optimi Maximi Capitolini ("Temple of Jupiter Best and Greatest on the Capitoline").
An image of Summanus, a thunder god, was among the pedimental statues. [19] The cult statue of Jupiter showed the god standing and wielding a thunderbolt, dressed in a tunica palmata (a tunic decorated with images of palm leaves), and the toga picta, dyed purple and bearing designs in gold thread. This costume became the standard dress for ...
The Temple of Jupiter Stator (Latin: Aedes Iovis Statoris; Jupiter the Sustainer), also known to the ancient Romans as the Metellan Temple of Jupiter (Aedes Iovis Metellina) [1] and the Temple of Metellus (Aedes Metelli), [2] was a temple dedicated to the Roman god Jupiter Stator. [3]
The Temple of Jupiter Tonans (Latin: Aedes Iovis Tonantis, lit. ' Temple of Jupiter the Thunderer ') was a small temple in Rome, dedicated by Augustus Caesar in 22 BCE to Jupiter, the chief god of ancient Rome.
[3] [4] [5] Thunor, Donar (German, Donnerstag) and Thor are derived from the name of the Germanic god of thunder, Thunraz, equivalent to Jupiter in the interpretatio romana. In most Romance languages, the day is named after the Roman god Jupiter, who was the god of sky and thunder. In Latin, the day was known as Iovis Dies, "Jupiter's Day