Topic 12 — Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Mars
Dominant work: The Golden Age, or The Lives of Jupiter and Saturn · genre mix of this topic (British Drama labels): classical legend or myth 31%; masque 23%; comedy 9%
108chunks
53,226words
44works
12works with ≥3 chunks
23 %dominant work
38 %top-3 works
All statistics on this page are on the representative editions (one per work). Including the other editions, placed after the fit: 129 chunks · 47 works · 63,566 words — those 21 chunks are listed at the end of the page and are not part of any figure above.
Classificationcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · confirmed by the researcher Label (researcher): Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and MarsOriginal AI draft — before researcher review
draft label: The Olympian gods: Jupiter, Juno, Venus and Mars · pattern basis: thematic_discourse+recurring_role_or_name 108 chunks, 44 works, Heywood's Golden Age 23 %, top three 38 %. The gods among themselves — Jupiter's rule, Juno's jealousy, Venus and Mars, Titans; Heywood's Ages, Peele, Jonson's Poetaster, pageants. The deities are shared mythological roles, not single-work names; T21 (Cupid, nymphs) is the love-side neighbour. Comparable, with the Golden Age share noted. chunks read for the draft: 687_00008;139_00003;238_00016;975_00004;824_00000;422_00031;719_00031
Heywood, Thomas, 1611 · classical legend or myth · 25 chunks of this work here
Two royal armies then on both sides stand, To view this strange and dreadful Monomachy. Thy fall, Saturnian, adds to my renown: For by thy death I gain the Cretan Crown. Death is t…
Peele, George, 1584 · pastoral · 8 chunks of this work here
To kill thy love with thy disdain. Cruel disdain so live thou named. Cruel disdain etc. And let me die of Iphis pain. A life to good for thy disdain. sith this my stars to me allot…
Wilson, Robert, 1594 · moral · 8 chunks of this work here
Sleep on secure, let care not touch thy heart, Leave to love her, that longs to live in change, So wantonness deal, when they their fairs impart Rome thou abroad for I intend to ra…
Jonson, Ben, 1602 · comedy · 5 chunks of this work here
Here daughter Venus, I drink to thee. Thank you, good Father Iupiter. Why, Mother Iuno! Gods and Fiends! what, wilt thou suffer this ocular Temptation? Mars is enraged; he looks bi…
Heywood, Thomas, 1637 · classical legend or myth · 5 chunks of this work here
Now by what gods, for Heaven's sake? Not the meanest, such as we call under-deities, melancholy Saturn, (by his son ●iled and banished from the supreme rule) Phoebus, a mere Vassal…
Lyly, John, 1597 · comedy · 3 chunks of this work here
Though rancour now be rooted from my heart, I feel it burdened in another sort: By day I think of nothing but of rule, By night my dreams are all of Empery. Mine ears delight to he…
Beaumont, Francis, 1613 · masque · 3 chunks of this work here
STay, Stay. Stay light foot Iris, for thou strivest in vain, My wings are nimbler than thy feet. Away, Dissembling Mercury; my messages Ask honest haste, not like those wanton ones…
Heywood, Thomas, 1613 · classical legend or myth · 3 chunks of this work here
Vulcan be advised, I have had notice where they use to meet, Couldst not devise to catch them by some wile? And lay their guilt, wide open to the Gods, Then mightst thou have fit c…
Genre mix (chunks of this topic, British Drama labels)
classical legend or myth
33 (31 %)
masque
25 (23 %)
comedy
10 (9 %)
tragedy
9 (8 %)
moral
9 (8 %)
pastoral
8 (7 %)
civic play; pageant
4 (4 %)
romance
3 (3 %)
This is the direction topic → genre, on the raw British Drama labels; the share of each genre group's text that falls in this topic is on the Genre page.
Poetaster, or The Arraignment (1602) · typ. 0.87 Here daughter Venus, I drink to thee. Thank you, good Father Iupiter. Why, Mother Iuno! Gods and Fiends! what, wilt thou suffer this ocular Temptation? Mars is enraged; he looks big, a…
Octavia (Seneca's Ninth Tragedy) (1566) · typ. 0.86 …, grievous pain With death determined hath t'avengeavenge again. We have found out, for birth, and beauties grace A worthy make, for such an empress place: To whom, that lovely goddess, Venus' bright, And mighty Ioue his spouse that Iuno hight, And goddess fierce in boisterous warlike arts, Gives place for bodies seemly portrayed parts. F…
The Arraignment of Paris (1584) · typ. 0.86 …h this my stars to me allot, And thou thy love hast all forgot. And thou etc. Now shepherds, bury Colin's corpse, perfume his hearse with flowers, And write what justice Venus did amid these woods of yours. How now, how cheers my Lovely boy, after this dump of love. Such dumps, sweet Lady, as been these are deadly dumps to prove. Cease sh…
Cymbeline, King of Britain (1623) · typ. 0.85 …oped, as to foot us: his Ascension is More sweet than our blessed Fields: his Royal Bird Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his Beak, As when his God is pleased. Thanks Iupiter. The Marble Pavement clozes, he is entered His radiant Roof: Away, and to be blessed Let us with care perform his great behest. Sleep, thou hast been a Grandsire,…
The Arraignment of Paris (1584) · typ. 0.84 …, as we resolve give yow to know, By general doom, how every thing doth go. Thy will, my wish, fair Ladies, will ye wend? Beshrew her whom this sentence doth offend. Now Ioue be just, and gods you that be Venus' friends, If yow have ever done her wrong, then may yow make amends. Venus is fair, Pallas and Iuno toe. But tell me now without …
The Woman in the Moon (1597) · typ. 0.84 … But in the beauty of this Paragon, Dame Nature far hath gone beyond herself, And in this one are all my loves contained. And come what can come, Iupiter shall prove, If fair Pandora will accept his love: But first I must discuss this heavenly cloud: That hides me from the sight of mortal eyes. Behold Pandora where thy lover sits, High Io…
The Woman in the Moon (1597) · typ. 0.84 …ding them to dangerous exploits: And were they kings my beauty should command, Sirrah Gunophilus bear up my train. Mars comes entreated by the Queen of heaven, To summon Ioue from this his regiment: Such jealous humour croweth in her brain, That she is mad till he return from hence. Now Sovereign Ioue king of immortal kings, Thy lovely Iu…
The World Tossed at Tennis (1620) · typ. 0.83 …me, till the Ida prize joined me with wrathful Iuno to destroy 'em, (For we are better ruined, then profaned.) Now let the latter ages count the gains They got by wanton Venus' sacrifice, But I'll invoke great Iupiter. Do, Goddess: And re-erect the ruins of thy Fame For Poesy can do it. Altitonant Imperial crowned, and thunder-armed Ioue,…
The Cobbler's Prophecy (1594) · typ. 0.83 …our Music, Folly leave thy play, Come hither lay his head upon thy knee. Fie what a loathed load was he to me. Come my Content, let's dance about the place, And mock God Mars unto his sleepy face. Venus agreed, play us a Galliard. Why sings not Venus? her love I to hear, Sweet let the Fife be further from mine ear, Nay let the Fife play, …
The Courageous Turk, or Amurath the First (1632) · typ. 0.83 …aleld And most celestial shape into worse forms; And more prodigious than ever poisoned charms. Wrought on the fabled Concubines of love: But know great Queen, my Mother Venus vows Her everlasting guard to save such beauty, Lest if thou perish, Nature herself Loose her only pattern of serenity, But I must hast, Love which the Gods protect…
The Golden Age, or The Lives of Jupiter and Saturn (1611) · typ. 0.83 …urnian, adds to my renown: For by thy death I gain the Cretan Crown. Death is thy due, I find it in thy stars, Whilst our high name gives period to these wars. Never was Saturn deified till now, Nor found that perfectness the Gods enjoy. Heaven can assure no greater happiness Than I attain in sight of Iupiter, Oh my dear son, borne with m…
The Golden Age, or The Lives of Jupiter and Saturn (1611) · typ. 0.83 …eel. Trust your Sibylla. Thou art my anchor, and the only column That supports Saturn's glory, Oh my Iupiter, On thee the basis of my hopes I erect, And in thy life King Saturn's fame survives. Are messengers dispatched to signify My son of our distress. As far as Epire. Where as we understand, Ioue now remains, Then Titan, and the proud …
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