Saturn

Also known as: great Saturn / mighty Saturn / son of Saturn · Family: gods · Role: father of Jove · First appears: BOOK I

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Cronus) · The Odyssey (as Saturn) · The Aeneid (as Saturn) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Saturn) · Paradise Lost (as Saturn)

In Book I, Jove is identified as “the son of Saturn.” In Book IV, Juno calls herself Saturn’s eldest daughter and says she is also Jove’s wife. In Book XV, Neptune says that Rhea bore him, Jove and Hades to Saturn.

Relationship record

BOOK I

• child: Jove “the son of Saturn”

BOOK IV

• child: Jove “The son of Saturn then began to tease Juno, talking at her so as to provoke her.”
• child: Juno “I am Saturn’s eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king over the gods.”

BOOK VII

• child: Jove “King Jove the son of Saturn”

BOOK VIII

• child: Juno “white-armed Juno, daughter of great Saturn”
• child: Jove “Father, son of Saturn, king of kings”

BOOK IX

• child: Jove “Jove the son of Saturn”

BOOK XIV

• child: Juno “Juno, august queen of goddesses, daughter of mighty Saturn”

BOOK XV

• child: Jove “We were three brothers whom Rhea bore to Saturn—Jove, myself, and Hades who rules the world below.”
• child: Neptune “We were three brothers whom Rhea bore to Saturn—Jove, myself, and Hades who rules the world below.”
• child: Hades “We were three brothers whom Rhea bore to Saturn—Jove, myself, and Hades who rules the world below.”

BOOK XXI

• child: Jove “the offspring of Saturn’s son”

BOOK XXII

• child: Jove “the son of Saturn will destroy by a terrible doom”

BOOK XXIV

• child: Jove “they reached the shore they flew up into the heavens, where they found the all-seeing son of Saturn with the blessed gods that live for ever assembled near him.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.