entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.64-66 (Stoic account: Jupiter as universal providence); 3.53-60 (Epicurean/Academic critiques). Most systematic ancient account of Jupiter's theological function.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation,Jupiter Optimus Maximus is the presiding deity of the Roman state throughout Livy. AUC 1.10 (first triumphal offering to Jupiter Feretrius by Romulus); 1.38 (Capitoline temple vow); 5.51-54 (Jupiter's will that Rome remain at the Tiber). Livy is the essential source for Jupiter's role as guarantor of Roman victory.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti throughout: Jupiter is invoked and addressed in multiple calendar entries; his Ides (the 13th of each month are sacred to him); the Vinalia, Agonalia, and other festivals connected to Jupiter; his role as sky-father and state deity"
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_VARRO_ANTIQ,direct attestation,Varro treats Jupiter as the supreme deity of civic (political) theology; cited in Augustine City of God 7.9-11. Varro distinguishes the philosophical Jupiter (soul of the world) from the civic cult figure.
ENT_ROM_JUPITER,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,"Jupiter guarantees Rome's destiny to Juno (1.257-296: the ""fates' will"" speech); sends Mercury to Carthage (4.222-278); adjudicates the final battle (12.791-842). The Aeneid's Jupiter is the normative image of Jupiter as universal sovereign for the Roman literary tradition."