Jupiter roman god biography
Jupiter roman god biography
Pictures of jupiter roman god.
Jupiter (mythology)
Jupiter (Latin: Iuppiter) is the king of the gods in Roman mythology.[1][2][3] He was the god of the sky and thunder.[1] His two brothers were Pluto and Neptune, and his sister was Ceres.
Life of Jupiter
[change | change source]Saturn, who was the previous king of the gods,[1] began to swallow the children that he had with his wife Ops (Greek equivalent Rhea), when they were born.[1][3] This was because he had been warned that one of his children would overthrow him.[1][3] Saturn swallowed the children Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, Juno and Vesta.[3] When Ops realized that she was pregnant with Jupiter, she had the baby secretly and moved to Crete,[1][3] giving a stone wrapped in baby clothes to Saturn for him to eat.[3] Saturn believed he had eaten Jupiter.
Overthrowing Saturn
[change | change source]After Jupiter was raised