Jove

Also known as: Father Jove / Jupiter / King Jove / Zeus / father Jove / father of all / father of gods / father of gods and men / great Jove / sire of gods and men / son of Saturn · Family: gods · Role: king of the gods · First appears: BOOK I

🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Zeus) · The Odyssey (as Jove) · The Aeneid (as Jupiter) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Jupiter) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Jupiter) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Zeus) · The Divine Comedy (as Jove) · Paradise Lost (as Jove)

In Book I, Jove is the son of Saturn, husband and brother of Juno, and father of Apollo, Vulcan and Minerva. After twelve days, he promises Thetis that the Trojans will prevail until the Achaeans restore Achilles’s honor, sealing the promise with a nod. In Book II, he sends Agamemnon a lying dream urging the Achaeans to arm and attack Troy.

In Book IV, Jove orders Minerva to make the Trojans break their oaths and begin the fighting. In Book VIII, he forbids the gods to interfere, then tips the balance of battle toward the Trojans; later he grants Agamemnon’s people survival and orders Juno and Minerva to abandon their attempt to fight. In Book XIV, Juno’s stratagem succeeds: Jove embraces her and falls asleep on Ida.

In Book XV, Jove’s command sends Neptune from the battlefield back to the sea, while Apollo, acting at Jove’s direction, restores Hector’s strength. In Book XX, Jove convenes the gods in council through Themis to decide how they will intervene in the war. After nine days in Book XXIV, he sends Thetis to tell Achilles to accept Priam’s ransom and surrender Hector’s body.