entity_id,source_id,evidence_type,source_note
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_BEARD_ROMAN_RELIGIONS,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Beard, North, Price, Religions of Rome."
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_CICERO_DE_NATURA,direct attestation,DND 2.67 (Mars as war); 3.62. Cicero documents both the cult function and the Stoic allegorical interpretation of Mars.
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_LIVY_AUC,direct attestation,Mars as divine father of Romulus; AUC 1.4.1-2 (Rhea Silvia claims Mars fathered Romulus and Remus); Salii priests of Mars; AUC 1.20.4 (Numa establishes Salii). Key civic religion attestations throughout Books 1-10.
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_OVID_FASTI,direct attestation,"Fasti 2.857-862, 3.1-166: February Lupercalia involves Mars; March is his month; Ovid narrates his origin, his rape of Silvia (mother of Romulus and Remus), and the rites of the Salii; primary literary account of the Roman Mars's cult mythology"
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_ROMAN_OCD,scholarly attestation,"Attested in Oxford Classical Dictionary, Roman Religion entries."
ENT_ROM_MARS,SRC_VIRGIL_AENEID,direct attestation,Mars is father of Romulus (implied throughout the Aeneid's Trojan-to-Roman arc); patron of war; 1.274-277 (Romulus destined to found Rome); 9.717 (invoked in battle). The Aeneid reinforces Mars's role as divine ancestor of the Roman people.