Mars
deity figure · 8 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
puissant Mars
in the texts
On the Commonwealth
Roman war god reported as the father of Romulus and Remus
Who, born of his father Mars (for let us grant the report of men—especially one not only of old standing, but also wisely handed down by our ancestors, that men well-deserving of the common good should be thought to be of divine descent, and not only of divine genius)—he, then, as soon as he was born, with his brother Remus, is said to have been ordered by Amulius, king of Alba, through fear of th …
De Rerum Natura
The god of war, portrayed as overcome by love for Venus, lying in her embrace while she is asked to move him to grant peace to the Romans.
The savage works of battle, puissant Mars,
How often to thy bosom flings his strength
O'ermastered by the eternal wound of love-
Amphitruo
God 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?
Ad Nationes
War god whose image is used for soldiers' statues and who is shown chained in Homer.
he wounds Venus with a human arrow, holds Mars thirteen months in chains, perhaps to perish;
Apologeticum
War god subjected to mythic humiliation.
that Mars was nearly worn out by thirteen months in chains;
De idolatria
Roman god of war, cited both as a subject of idol-carving and as an astrological/pagan reference point.
He who carves a Mars out of lime-wood, how much more quickly does he put together a cabinet?
Forsooth, astrology today is of Christ, observing and proclaiming the star of Christ, not of Saturn and Mars and any other of the same order of the dead.
De Spectaculis
Roman god of war, honored by several games and associated with gladiatorial combat.
Then Romulus named the Ecurria, from the horses, to Mars;
we know Mars and Diana to be the presidents of both kinds of show.
But afterwards, pleasure as well as superstition having advanced, some consecrated the red to Mars, others the white to the Zephyrs;
De Testimonio Animae
A Roman deity named as one of the pagan gods contrasted with the one true God.
and at the same time you deny that the rest are gods, when you call them by their own names — Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Minerva.