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{{Infobox deity
| type             = Roman
| name             = Jupiter
| member_of        = the [[Archaic Triad|Archaic]] and [[Capitoline Triad]]s
| image            = Giove, I sec dc, con parti simulanti il bronzo moderne 02.JPG
| caption          = A marble statue of Jupiter from {{circa|100 {{small|AD}}}}{{efn|With 19th-century additions of [[drapery]], [[scepter]], [[eagle]], and [[Victoria (mythology)|Victory]]}}
| deity_of         = [[Sky god|God of the sky]] and [[God of Thunder|lightning]]
| venerated_in = {{ubl
|  Imperial cult of [[Ancient Rome]]
| [[Polytheism|Polytheistic religion]]
}}
| abode            = [[Rome]]
| symbol           = [[Thunderbolt|Lightning bolt]], [[eagle]], [[oak tree]]
| consort          = [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]]
| parents          = [[Saturn (mythology)|Saturn]] and [[Ops]]{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}
| siblings         = '''Roman tradition:''' [[Juno (mythology)|Juno]], [[Ceres (mythology)|Ceres]], [[Vesta (mythology)|Vesta]]<br />'''Greco-Roman:''' [[Pluto (mythology)|Pluto]] and [[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]]
| children         = [[Mars (mythology)|Mars]], [[Vulcan (mythology)|Vulcan]], [[Bellona]], [[Juventas]], [[Hercules]] 
| mount            =
| other_names      = Jove
| Greek_equivalent = [[Zeus]]
}} 
'''Jupiter''' ([[Latin language|Latin]]: ''Iuppiter'') is the king of the [[deity|gods]] in [[Roman mythology]].<ref name=harvey /><ref name=pascal /><ref name=souli /> He was the god of the sky and thunder.<ref name=harvey /> His two brothers were [[Pluto (mythology)|Pluto]] and [[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]], and his sister was [[Ceres]]. 

==Life of Jupiter==

Saturn, who was the previous king of the gods,<ref name="harvey" /> began to swallow the children that he had with his wife Ops (Greek equivalent Rhea), when they were born.<ref name="harvey">{{cite book|author=Harvey, Paul|title=The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont0000sirp_m2p1|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=London|date=1937}}</ref><ref name="souli">{{cite book|author=Souli, Sophia|title=Greek Mythology|publisher=Techni S.A.|date=1998|isbn=9605402661}}</ref> This was because he had been warned that one of his children would overthrow him.<ref name="harvey" /><ref name="souli" /> Saturn swallowed the children Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, Juno and Vesta.<ref name="souli" /> When Ops realized that she was pregnant with Jupiter, she had the baby secretly and moved to Crete,<ref name="harvey" /><ref name="souli" /> giving a stone wrapped in baby clothes to Saturn for him to eat.<ref name="souli" /> Saturn believed he had eaten Jupiter.

===Overthrowing Saturn===
After Jupiter was raised by his mother, his destiny was to overthrow Saturn, as revenge for all he had done to his brothers and sisters in the past. When Jupiter grew up, he made Saturn vomit up all of the children he had swallowed.<ref name=souli /> All the brothers and sisters joined forces and overthrew Saturn.<ref name=harvey /><ref name="pascal">{{cite encyclopedia|author=Pascal, Paul|title=Jupiter|publisher=World Book-Childcraft International, Inc.|date=1978|page=164|encyclopedia=World Book Encyclopedia}}</ref><ref name=souli />

===Battle of the Titans===
Then, with the help of the Cyclopes and the Hundred-handed Giants, they declared war on Saturn and the other Titans.<ref name=harvey /><ref name=souli /> Jupiter finally defeated the Titans and they were imprisoned in Tartarus.<ref name=harvey /><ref name=souli />

===Dividing the universe===
Jupiter and his brothers divided the universe into three parts, Jupiter obtaining the heavens, Neptune the sea and Pluto the underworld. This is how Jupiter became the king of the gods.<ref name=harvey />

==Related pages==
* [[Tinia]] - [[Etruscan mythology]] equivalent to Jupiter
* [[Zeus]] - [[Greek mythology]]<nowiki/> equivalent to Jupiter
* [[Odin]] - [[Norse mythology]] equivalent to Jupiter

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==References==
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[[Category:Roman gods and goddesses]]
[[Category:Gods and goddesses of the sky]]
[[Category:Gods and goddesses of thunder]]