Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.274 Mars

  God of war; 'impious Mars' rages over the world at the close of Book 1, and his adultery with Venus is sung among the Nymphs.

• The Aeneid §3.35 Gradivus

  Mars under his war-title Gradivus, lord of the Thracian (Getic) fields.

• The Aeneid §6.777 the son of Mars

  Mars, war-god and father of Romulus.

• The Aeneid §8.433 Mars

  Mars, god of war; the Cyclopes were forging his chariot.

• The Aeneid §9.717 Mars

  God of war, who gives the Latins fresh strength and looses Flight and Fear on the Trojans.

• The Aeneid §10.281 Mars

  God of war; Turnus tells his men 'Mars himself is in your hands.'

• The Aeneid §11.7 mighty in war

  Mars, god of war, to whom Aeneas dedicates the trophy of Mezentius' spoils.

• The Aeneid §12.179 Mavors

  Mars, 'who wheel all wars beneath your power,' called to witness the oath.

• The Georgics §4.346 Mars

  God of war, whose adultery with Venus is told in the Nymphs' song.