Ludi volcanalici
Ludi volcanalici The coins of 20 B.C., stamped Mars Ultor and Volkanus ultor (Eckhel, 6.96), would seem to point to these games being established after the recovery of the standards from the Parthians; but the Fasti of the Augustan age do not mention them. These games were abolished by Macrinus, but soon renewed, owing to a religious feeling among the people that they ought to be restored, which was confirmed by the burning of the amphitheatre (D. C. 78.25). They were celebrated in the temple of Vulcan outside the city (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 47=p. 276) on the 23rd of August (C. I. L. 1.400).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.