Mars

Reading notes

• Agamemnon §565 Mars

  The war-god; Ajax boasts he withstood Hector and Mars together.

• On Anger §1.12 Mars

  The Roman war-god; in the proverb 'Mars is shared' (Mars communis), the impartial fortune of battle that anger forgets.

• Hercules (Mad) §1386 Gradivus

  Mars (Gradivus), tried for a killing on the Athenian hill named for him and acquitted, the precedent for Hercules's purification.

• Hercules on Oeta §1315 send savage Gradivus

  Mars (Gradivus), god of war and, through Juno, a 'brother' of Hercules, called on to strike him down.

• Natural Questions §1.1.7 Mars

  Here the planet, whose light Seneca ranks as a softer red than the Dog-star's.

• Octavia §279 of Mars

  Mars, god of war and father of Romulus; 'the seed of Mars' is the martial stock of the old Romans.

• Oedipus §87 Mavors

  Mars, god of war, by his older name Mavors.

• Phaedra §123 Mars

  God of war and Venus' lover, whose affair the Sun betrayed to her husband Vulcan.

• Phaedra §184 Gradivus

  A cult-title of Mars; even the war-god is scorched by Cupid's torches.

• Phaedra §538 Mavors

  An old form of the name Mars; war's inventor of new instruments of death.

• The Phoenician Women §518 Mars

  The god of war.

• Thyestes §546 Mavors

  Mars, god of war (the archaic form Mavors).