Mars

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.1 Mars

  God of war, here grotesquely 'strumming the Aonian lyre' in the reversal catalogue.

• The Art of Love §1.7 Father Mars

  God of war and, through Romulus, ancestor of the Roman race; invoked with Augustus to bless the campaign.

• The Art of Love §2.26 Mars

  God of war, here turned helpless lover of Venus and caught in Vulcan's net.

• The Heroides §3 Mars

  Roman god of war; 'with Mars favoring' is to fight with the war-god's favor.

• The Heroides §6 Mars

  God of war; the fire-breathing, bronze-footed bulls Jason yoked at Colchis were sacred to him.

• The Heroides §7 Mars

  God of war; Dido prays that all Aeneas's people whom war returns may prevail.

• The Heroides §12 the bulls of Mars

  The fire-breathing, bronze-footed bulls sacred to Mars that Jason had to yoke at Colchis.

• The Heroides §15 Mars

  God of war and Venus's lover; she sees Phaon could please even him.

• The Heroides §16 my warfare (Mars)

  Mars, god of war; the 'Doric camps' would yield to Paris's war-craft.

• The Heroides §17 Mars

  God of war; Paris's body, Helen jeers, is fitter for Venus than for Mars.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.6 choice of Mars

  Mars, god of war; Ovid argues that since the bravest fall in battle, even War's own choice of victims is not by desert — so the gods do not punish only the guilty.

• The Festivals §proem Mars's

  Mars, war-god and father of Romulus, gave his name to the first month, March.

• The Festivals §2.27 Gradivus

  A cult-title of Mars, 'the Strider,' whose month and races close the book.

• The Festivals §4.proem fierce Mars

  War-god and father of Romulus; Romulus set March (Mars) first and Venus's April second in the calendar.

• The Festivals §5.12 Mars

  The war-god, father of Romulus; here Mars Ultor, the Avenger, whose temple crowned the Forum of Augustus.

• The Festivals §5.12 the Avenger

  Mars Ultor, vowed by Augustus at Philippi to avenge Caesar's murder, and again for the Parthian standards.

• The Festivals §5.12 Gradivus

  A cult-title of Mars, 'the strider,' god of the march to war.

• The Festivals §6.proem Mars

  The war-god, father of Romulus; he entrusts Rome's walls to Juno and pleads for the besieged Capitol.

• Ibis §7 stars of Mars

  The malign planet Mars, 'promising nothing peaceful,' dominating the enemy's nativity.

• Metamorphoses §3.39 a serpent of Mars

  The war-god Mars, to whom the great dragon guarding the spring was sacred; its teeth, sown, spring up as armed men.

• Metamorphoses §3.57 offspring of Mars

  Mars, war-god whose dragon's teeth bore the Sown Men; Pentheus invokes the Thebans' martial, serpent-born descent.

• Metamorphoses §8.189 Mars

  The war-god; "his war-god" (Mavors) stands for Minos's strength in arms.

• Metamorphoses §12.356 Mars

  God of war, who (Cycnus jokes) also bears arms only for their splendor.

• Metamorphoses §14.469 Gradivus

  Mars under his battle-title Gradivus ('the marching god'); reminding Jupiter of his promise, he carries Romulus up to heaven.

• Metamorphoses §15.518 and Gradivus

  Mars Gradivus, father of Romulus/Quirinus.

• The Cure for Love §1 Mars

  Roman god of war and Venus's lover, so Cupid's 'stepfather'; his bloody weapons are contrasted with Cupid's bloodless arrows.

• Sorrows §2.1 the Avenger

  Mars Ultor (the Avenger), in whose temple in Augustus's Forum the statue of Venus stood, her husband Vulcan before the doors.