The Romans believed that Jupiter granted them supremacy because they had honoured him more than any other people had. Jupiter was "the fount of the auspicesupon which the relationship of the city with the gods rested." He

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A dominant line of scholarship has held that Rome lacked a body of myths in its earliest period, or that this original mythology has been

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Sacrifices
Sacrificial victims (hostiae) offered to Jupiter were the ox (castrated bull), the lamb (on the Ides, the ovis idulis) and the wether(a

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The Latin name Iuppiter originated as a vocative compound of the Old Latin vocative *Iou and pater ("father") and came to replace the Old Latin nominative case *Ious. Jove is a less common Englishformation based on Iov-, the stem of oblique cases of the Latin

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Sources
Marcus Terentius Varro and Verrius Flaccuswere the main sources on the theology of Jupiter and archaic Roman religion in general. Varro

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Capitoline Triad
The Capitoline Triad was introduced to Rome by the Tarquins. Dumézil thinks it might have been an

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Ides
The Ides (the midpoint of the month, with a full moon) was sacred to Jupiter, because on that day heavenly light shone day and night. Some (or all) Ides were FeriaeIovis, sacred to Jupiter. On the Ides, a white lamb (ovis idulis) was led

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