Tacitus: Histories and Annals

Jupiter

Also known as: Salaminian Jupiter · Family: mythological · Role: god · First appears: Annals III (11)

Life events

  • Jupiter forcibly deposed Saturn.(Histories V.1-4)
    • With: Saturn
    • “at the time when Saturn was forcibly deposed by Jupiter”

Annals III (11)

  • with Teucer (Teucer founded a temple to Jupiter.) “the third to the Salaminian Jupiter by Teucer, the son of Telamon, when he fled from the fury of his father”

Annals IV (10)

  • child: Tantalus “whether Tantalus, the son of Jupiter; or Theseus, the son also of a God; or one of the old Amazons, were their founder;”

Histories V.1-4

  • enemies with Saturn “It is said that the Jews are refugees from Crete, who settled on the confines of Libya at the time when Saturn was forcibly deposed by Jupiter.”

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