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The intention is to keep this page as focused on the Italic Jupiter as possible. The track-record of Roman god-pages is that they tend to accumulate stuff from Ovid that's more relevant to Greek myth. Someone therefore combined this page with Zeus a while ago, which I think was a wise choice given the material that was there. I've separated it and added more Rome-specific material. I'm not the king of Wikipedia, but please consider whether the material you want to add is relevant to Jupiter (god) or Zeus. Bacchiad 23:44, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Name

The Greek name is surely Poo face (sorry, can't write greek on this keyboard). The vocative doesn't have the final sigma. Isn't that right? Richard W.M. Jones 14:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Copied from comment in Talk:Dyaus Pita by Simha:

Latin Juppiter is from IE. *dyeu-ph2ter (vocative), not from Iove pater, the latter being a remade vocative after thematic nouns.

Mark 83.151.246.2 07:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

You lie. Who are you? Some person from university or something? Find it in a book. You lie. We at Wikipedia will not listen to your bookless herisies! We at Wikipedia will invent our own truthes. You are the weakest link, goodbye. --24.77.216.252 07:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jupiter Trophonius

In my recent readings of Roman history I've come across a reference to a temple of "Jupiter Trophonius", which is perhaps another one of Jupiter's titles? I'm having trouble finding any information on it specifically. Could anyone help clear this up for me? – Quoth 11:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Jupiter Exobotanist

I found an epithet. Does anybody know? I heard from the radio, I think. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.77.216.252 (talk) 07:12, 20 December 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Jupiter Dolichenus

Would something about Jupiter Dolichenus be suitable for this page, or would a separate page be better? I see that most epithets of Jupiter have been redirected to this page. --Nantonos 05:00, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Feel free to add any epithets you've got to the page; I've done the same recently with Mars (mythology), Mercury (mythology) and Venus (mythology). If the list gets too long, we can easily make a daughter article, Epithets of Jupiter, to list them all. -Silence 07:36, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Adult supervision is needed

Constructive edits since 23 December 2006 are pitifully few: see my corrective edit today. This article needs closer adult supervision. Semi-protection is apparently unavailable. --Wetman 03:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Celtic Jupiter

Jupiter was adopted by the Celts after their lands were conquered by the Romans. He was given Celtic epithets in different places, and was also equated with local gods (for example, Jupiter Beissirissa, by a tribe in southern Gaul). Since this article is concentrating on the Italic Jupiter, I was wondering, would be appropriate to list those epithets here, or in a separate article? T@nn 06:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Great! Discuss them fully here, as an aspect of Jupiter. If any individual sections were to get long enough, they could be cut and pasted to start individual articles. But an encyclopedic treatment belongs here. Keep up the good work! --Wetman 12:25, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'll do that. I'm using my flatmate's computer so I don't get on as often as I'd like, but I will add the entries sometime this week. And thanks for the kind words. :) T@nn 10:17, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zeus

Hey look my tag...

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Regis Deorum

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[edit] Jupiter

IS A PLANET !!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.123.19.146 (talk) 18:39, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Epithets of Jupiter

This is taken from the italian wikipedia entry. Anyone with the appropriate knowledge of italian should add this to the article.

[edit] Epiteti

Questi sono gli epiteti conosciuti di Giove, secondo la lista compilata dallo storico svedese Carl Thulin e riportata dalla Paulys Realencyclopädie (1890), pagine 1142-1144. La sigla O. M. sta per Ottimo Massimo.

Translation:(These are all the known epithets of Jupiter according to the list compiled by the swedish historian Carl Thulin and which appeared in Paulys Realencyclopädie (1890), page 1142-1144. The abbreviation O.M. stands for "All Powerful")

This translation may be way off because i'm translating from 1 month's failed Italian classes and my spanish knowledge. It looks right though!

The problem is that a list without context is a dead-end. Many epithets are purely local: to know the locality would be a start. --Wetman (talk) 04:12, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Adventus O. M. ("arrivo, invasione")
  • Aetetus O. M.
  • Almus ("che conforta")
  • Amaranus ("che amareggia?")
  • Anxurus ("di Terracina")
  • Appenninus ("dell’Appennino"; fusione con il dio ligure Penninus)
  • Arcanus ("occulto")
  • Balmarcodes O. M.
  • Beellefarus
  • Bronton
  • Cacunus
  • Caelestis O. M.
  • Caelus O. M.
  • Capitolinus O. M. ("del Campidoglio")
  • Casius ("del Monte Casio"; adorato ad Antiochia)
  • Ciminius
  • Clitumnus
  • Cohortalis O. M.
  • Conservator ("difensore")
  • Culminalis O. M.
  • Cultor ("coltivatore")
  • Custos ("custode, guardiano")
  • Damascenus O. M. ("di Damasco)
  • Dapalis
  • Defensor O. M.
  • Depulsor O. M.
  • Depulsorius O. M.
  • Dianus
  • Dolichenus ("di Dolico"; è l’antico Teshub degli Ittiti)
  • Domesticus
  • Diovis
  • Elicius
  • Epulo
  • Exsuperantissimus O. M.
  • Fagutalis
  • Farreus
  • Feretrius
  • Fidius (fusione con Dius Fidius)
  • Flagius (adorato a Cuma)
  • Frugifer
  • Fulgur
  • Fulgurator
  • Fulmen
  • Fulminator
  • Grabovius (fusione con il dio umbro Grabovio)
  • Hammon O. M. (adorato nell’oasi di Siwa)
  • Heliopolitanus (di Heliopolis, attuale Baalbek)
  • Hercius
  • Imbricitor
  • Impulsor
  • Indiges (identificazione divina di Enea)
  • Inventor
  • Invictus
  • Iurarius
  • Iutor
  • Iuventas
  • Lapis
  • Latiaris
  • Liber
  • Liberator
  • Libertas
  • Lucetius
  • Maius
  • Maleciabrudes
  • Monitor O. M. ("guida")
  • Nundinarius
  • Obsequens
  • Opitulator o Opitulus ("soccorritore")
  • Optimus Maximus (O. M.)
  • Paganicus
  • Pantheus
  • Patronus
  • Pecunia
  • Pistor ("fornaio")
  • Pluvialis
  • Poeninus
  • Praedator
  • Praestes ("protettore")
  • Prestabilis ("insigne")
  • Prestitus
  • Propagator O. M.
  • Propugnator
  • Puer
  • Purgator
  • Purpurio O. M.
  • Quirinus (fusione con Quirino)
  • Rector
  • Redux
  • Restitutor
  • Ruminus
  • Salutaris O. M.
  • Savazios (fusione con Sabazio)
  • Sempiternus
  • Serapis (fusione con Serapide)
  • Serenator ("che rasserena")
  • Serenus ("sereno, calmo; felice")
  • Servator O. M. ("salvatore, osservatore")
  • Sospes ("salvatore")
  • Stator ("che tiene fermo, che ferma")
  • Striganus
  • Succellus (fusione con il dio celtico Succellus)
  • Summanus
  • Tempestas
  • Terminus
  • Territor ("che spaventa")
  • Tifatinus
  • Tigillus
  • Tonans ("tonante")
  • Tonitrator ("che fa tuonare")
  • Tutator
  • Valens ("forte, sano, robusto, potente, efficace")
  • Versor ("che modifica, che sconvolge, che travolge?")
  • Vesuvius (adorato a Capua)
  • Viminus
  • Vindex ("protettore, difensore")
  • Vircilinus

Thanks. Sillyfolkboy (talk) 00:53, 28 May 2008 (UTC)