Ares god
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ARES
Greek Name
Αρης
Transliteration
Arês
ARES was the Olympian god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. In ancient Greek art he was depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear.
MYTHS
Ares had an adulterous affair with the goddess Aphrodite but her husband Hephaistos trapped the pair in a golden net and humiliated them by calling the rest of the gods to witness. <<More>>
When Aphrodite fell in love with the handsome youth Adonis, the god grew jealous, transformed himself into a boar, and gorged the boy to death as he was out hunting. <<More>>
Ares transformed his daughter Harmonia and her husband Kadmos (Cadmus) of Thebes into serpents and had them carried away to the Islands of the Blessed. <<More>>
The god slew Hallirhothios to avenge the rape of his daughter Alkippe. He was tried at the court of the Areiopagos in Athens but acquitted of murder. <<
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Ares
God of war in ancient Greek religion
This article is about the ancient Greek god. For other uses, see Ares (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Aries (disambiguation).
| Ares | |
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Cast of a Roman statue from Hadrian's Villa, copied from a Greek original. Traditionally identified as Ares or Hermes. | |
| Abode | Mount Olympus, temples in mainland Greece, Crete and Asia minor |
| Planet | Mars |
| Symbols | Sword, spear, shield, helmet |
| Day | Tuesday (hēméra Áreōs) |
| Parents | Zeus and Hera |
| Siblings | Hephaestus, Eileithyia, Hebe and several paternal half-siblings |
| Consort | Liaisons with Aphrodite and others |
| Children | the Erotes (Eros and Anteros), Phobos, Deimos, Phlegyas, Harmonia, Enyalius, Thrax, Oenomaus, Cycnus, and the Amazons |
| Roman | Mars |
Ares (; Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs[árɛːs]) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were ambivalent towards him. He embodies the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust, in cont
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Roman god of war, thus symbol of a society that for centuries was thought of as essentially belligerent. Mars was identical with Greek Ares, although Ares never had a notorious position in the Greek pantheon. One of the most prominent and worshiped gods of Rome, Mars lent his name to a Roman district, the Campus Martius (Field of Mars), which announces even today his status as the city's protector and as father of the Roman people. Romulus, one of his twin sons born to the Vestal virgin Rhea Silvia, legendarily founded the city.
In the postclassical era Servius's commentary on Virgil's Aeneid (1.292) was the major source of knowledge of Mars's dual role as a keeper both of war and of peace. Servius refers to two temples of Mars: one outside the city that served as a temple for warriors, dedicated to Mars Gradivus, the god "that walks in battle"; the other inside the city, charged with guarding tranquility and dedicated to Mars Quirinus. (Originally, in old Italian beliefs, Mars had been associated with fertility, vegetation, and the protection of cattle; he became fused with
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