Rank
King of the Gods
3 figures in this corpus are recorded as king of the gods. Rank here is a claim made by a particular text rather than a property of the figure, so the same name can hold different ranks in different sources — and where it does, the profile shows the disagreement instead of picking one.
Which texts assign this rank?
Who holds the rank of king of the gods?
Jupiter
King of the Gods · Roman
Sky-father and state god of Rome, identified with Zeus by the *interpretatio romana* — the ancient world's official policy of treating foreign gods as one's own under different names.
Marduk
King of the Gods · Mesopotamian
Splits Tiamat and builds the world from her body, and is voted fifty names and supreme authority for doing it.
Zeus
King of the Gods · Greek
Sky-father and enforcer of oaths, whose name descends from the same Indo-European root as Jupiter and Dyaus.