Bellona
deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Amphitruo
Goddess of war cited by Mercury as an example of deities who enumerate their services in tragedies.
But why should I mention how in Tragedies I have seen others, such as Neptune, Valour, Victory, Mars, Bellona, making mention of the good services which they had done you?
On Anger
Roman goddess of war, invoked via poetic quotation as an image of violent, bloody frenzy.
"Bellona, brandishing the bloody scourge in her right hand," or "Discord goes rejoicing in her rent robe," or whatever more dreadful aspect of a dreadful passion can be devised.
Apologeticum
Roman goddess of war whose initiation involves drinking blood from a gashed thigh.
To this day, here among us, the blood drawn from a gashed thigh and caught in the palm, and given to be eaten, seals a man as initiate of Bellona.
De Pallio
Goddess whose cult involves dark, gloomy dress.
when, for the sake of the opposite affection, of dark dress and a gloomy fleece upon the head, minds are put to flight into Bellona's;