Mars

Roman god of war and father of Romulus, called Gradivus and Mavors by the poets; identified with the Greek Ares. Livy reports the claim that a Vestal "named Mars as their father" with open scepticism, and records Numa's flamen and the twelve Salii of Mars Gradivus. Virgil and Ovid keep the Greek stories — the net of Vulcan, the dragon of Thebes — and add Roman ones, above all Mars carrying Romulus to heaven.