Jupiter

Reading notes

• Agamemnon §401 Jupiter

  The supreme god, wielder of the thunderbolt and 'founder of our race' through Tantalus and Pelops.

• Agamemnon §458 Hercean Jupiter

  Jupiter Herceus ('of the Courtyard'), at whose household altar Priam was slaughtered; here his image is spattered with a king's blood.

• The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §8 Jupiter

  King of the gods and guardian of marriage law, 'condemned for incest' by Claudius's own conduct toward his niece-wife.

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §10 Capitoline Jupiter

  Jupiter Optimus Maximus, whose great temple stood on the Capitol; victorious generals laid their laurels in his lap.

• Consolation to Marcia §13 Jupiter

  Chief of the Roman gods, presiding over the Capitoline cult, invoked by Pulvillus in the pontifical formula.

• On Benefits §1.3.9 Jupiter

  The chief Roman god; conventionally father of the Graces.

• On the Shortness of Life §17.6 Jupiter

  Chief of the Roman gods; to be 'set up beside Jupiter' is to be honored as more than human.

• On Anger §1.20 Jupiter

  The chief Roman god; Caligula, angry that thunder interrupted his pantomimes, challenged him to single combat with a Homeric verse.

• On Providence §2.9 Jupiter

  The chief Roman god, king of the gods; here imagined as the divine spectator who looks down on the brave man's struggle with fortune.

• On the Happy Life §26.6 Jupiter Best and Greatest

  Jupiter Optimus Maximus, the supreme Roman god; Seneca's wise man bears slander as Jupiter bears the indecent myths the poets tell of him.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.9.16 Jupiter

  Jupiter, here the Stoic supreme god identified with the world's governing reason; at the cosmic dissolution he alone remains, withdrawn into his own thoughts until the world re-forms.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.73.12 Jupiter

  Jupiter, chief of the Roman gods, here standing for the supreme deity / providence; Seneca argues the sage equals him in virtue and happiness, differing only in duration and in being the cause of all things' use.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §107.10 Jupiter

  The supreme Roman god; here, in Stoic idiom, the ruling reason that steers the cosmos — Seneca keeps the pagan name for the providential "god" of his theology.

• Hercules (Mad) §1 the Thunderer

  Jupiter, king of the gods and Hercules's father; the Thunderer (Tonans) names him by his bolt.

• Hercules on Oeta §1 Father of the gods

  Jupiter, king of the gods and wielder of the thunderbolt; Hercules' divine father, here addressed as he demands a place in heaven.

• Hercules on Oeta §557 the bearer of the Assyrian girl

  Jupiter, who as a bull carried off Europa ('the Assyrian girl') across the sea, an example of love's power over the gods.

• Medea §56 the sceptre-bearing Thunderers

  Jupiter (and Juno), the supreme sky-gods who 'bear the sceptre' and the thunderbolt.

• Medea §771 Jove

  Jupiter, king of the gods, whose reign Typhoeus assailed.

• Natural Questions §1.1.7 Jupiter's

  Here the planet, whose brightness Seneca describes as carried through into a pure white light.

• Natural Questions §4.2.2 Jupiter the Rain-giver

  The sky-god as bringer of rain (Iuppiter Pluvius); Egypt, watered by the Nile, does not pray to him.

• Octavia §202 father of the gods

  Jupiter, lord of heaven, whose serial transformations to seduce mortals (swan, bull, golden rain) are catalogued here.

• Oedipus §87 Giants

  The Giants who warred on the gods of Olympus; Oedipus boasts he would face even them.

• Oedipus §488 Jupiter

  The king of the gods, who lays aside his thunderbolt at Bacchus's coming.

• Phaedra §128 Jove

  Jupiter, from whom Phaedra descends through Europa and Minos.

• The Phoenician Women §51 Jupiter

  The supreme god, invoked here as the wielder of the thunderbolt.

• Thyestes §86 father of the gods

  Jupiter, supreme god; Tantalus addresses him as 'father of the gods and ours,' since Tantalus was Jupiter's son.

• Thyestes §289 Jupiter

  Jupiter with his thunderbolt; Thyestes' greed would face even him.

• The Trojan Women §136 Jupiter

  King of the gods; Priam was 'slain as a victim to great Jupiter' at the altar of Zeus Herkeios.