Mars
c. 700 BCE – 400 CEattested
Rome
- Roman
War god and, earlier, a guardian of fields and boundaries. Rome claimed him as the father of Romulus, which made every Roman a soldier's descendant by birth rather than by choice.
Known for
- father of Romulus
- the field and the battlefield
- March as the season of campaigning
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.