god
Mars
God of war; invoked as patron of soldiering and slaughter throughout the martial odes.
Reading notes
- The Art of Poetry §391-407 Mars
God of war; 'the wars of Mars' are the battles for which Tyrtaeus' verse roused the soldiers.
- The Odes §1.6 Mars
The war-god, too great a subject for the lyric poet.
- The Odes §1.17 wolves of Mars
Wolves, the beasts sacred to Mars, from which the kids are kept safe.
- The Odes §2.14 bloody Mars
War, which in vain we shun—death takes us by the river anyway.
- The Odes §3.3 Mars
His horses bore the deified Romulus up from death.
- The Odes §4.8 Mavors
Mars, father of Romulus, 'the son of Ilia and Mavors.'