| |
| | The Temple of Bellona |
 | | Bellona, popular among the Roman soldiers, was variously given as the wife or sister of Mars, less often his daughter, and sometimes his charioteer or nurse. |
 | | The festival of Bellona, which originally took place on the 3rd of June, was altered to the 24th of March, after the confusion of the Roman Bellona with her Asiatic namesake. |
 | | Bellona Rufilia, aedes: a temple mentioned in one inscription of the empire (CIL vi.2234), evidently dedicated to the same Oriental deity who was worshipped in the temple of Bellona Pulvinensis, and probably built by some individual whose name is preserved in the epithet Rufilia. |
| www.angelfire.com /empire/martiana/bellona (776 words) |
|