Pillar of the Boatmen "(publice posierunt)" by the guild of sailors of Lutetia, from the "civitas" of the Parisii "(nautae Parisiaci)". These sailors would have been merchants who travelled along the Seine. The main dedication is to Jupiter in the form of "Iovis Optimus Maximus" ("Jove Best and Greatest"). The names of the emperor and the supreme deity appear in the dative case as the recipients of the dedication. The remaining theonyms are nominative legends that accompany individual depictions of the gods. These are (in the order they appear below) Jove, Tarvos Trigaranos (the Bull with three Cranes), Volcanus (Vulcan), Esus, Cernunnos, Castor, Smertrios,
Jove Books published in the 1970s were the series of historical novels written by John Jakes, the Kent Family Chronicles, beginning with "The Bastard" (1974), which were well-timed for popular interest in the U.S. Revolutionary War and the bicentennial celebration of independence. More modest or more critical than commercial successes published in the decade included "Man on Fire: A Novel of Revolution" by Bruce Douglas Reeves (1971) and several novels by Barry N. Malzberg. A series of "crossover" books, bridging prose fiction and comics, was the eight-volume "Weird Heroes" series of anthologies and novels (1975–77), where new superheroes and pulp-magazine-style adventure heroes