Bellona

Roman goddess of war who incites martial fury; cf. Greek Enyo.

Domains

• war

Powers

• Rouses the bloody frenzy and fury of battle

Epithets

• Bellona Victrix latin · Bellona Victrix'Bellona the Victorious' — war-goddess whose Campus Martius temple was vowed by Appius Claudius Caecus 296 BCELivy 10.19.17 (primary)
• Bellona latin · Bellonawar-goddess whose temple by the Circus Flaminius hosted Senate war-deliberations; the fetial column stood before itLivy 10.19.17 (primary); Ovid, Fasti 6.201-208 (primary)
• Duellona Latin · Duellona · literarywar-goddess (archaic form, from duellum/bellum)Varro, De Lingua Latina; Festus (primary)

Relations

• sibling: MarsRoman war-goddess most often Mars's sister/companion; deity-tier blocks a single-parent link so kinship is recorded as sibling.Ovid, Fasti 6.201-208; cf. Statius, Thebaid (Bellona as sister/companion of Mars) (primary); Wissowa, Religion und Kultus der Römer (1912), s.v. Bellona (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Virgil, Aeneid 8.703 (primary)