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- Ares (/ ˈɛəriːz /; 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.
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Ares (/ ˈ ɛər iː z /; Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs) 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.
Ares is the god of war, one of the Twelve Olympian gods and the son of Zeus and Hera. In literature he represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war, which is in contrast to Athena who represents military strategy and generalship as the goddess of intelligence.
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Ares was the ancient Greek god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaughter. Ares was never very popular, and his worship was not extensive in Greece.
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- Ares was associated with Aphrodite from the earliest times; in fact, Aphrodite was known locally (e.g., at Sparta) as a war goddess, apparently an...
- From at least the time of Homer, Ares was established as the son of the chief god, Zeus, and Hera, his consort. Ares was one of the Olympian deities.
- Zeus, the chief god, specifically assigns the sphere of war to Ares, the god of war, and Athena. Athena’s moral and military superiority to Ares de...
Ares is the Olympian god of war. However, unlike Athena, he represents merely its destructive capacity and is typically the personification of sheer violence and brutality. Consequently, he was loved neither by gods nor by men. That is, with the exception of Aphrodite, who bore him many children out of wedlock.
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- Ares ruled over the War and the Courage.
- Ares' home was Mount Olympus.
- The parents of Ares were Zeus and Hera.
- Ares had 26 siblings: Aeacus, Angelos, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Eileithyia, Enyo, Eris, Ersa, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Hephaestus,...
- Ares' consorts were Aphrodite, Calliope and Otrera.
- Ares had 14 children: Eros, Anteros, Phobos, Deimos, Phlegyas, Harmonia, Enyalios, Thrax, Oenomaus, Amazons (Hippolyta, Antiope, Melanippe, and Pen...
- Ares' symbols were the Sword, the Spear, the Shield, the Helmet and the Chariot.
- Ares' sacred animals were the Dog, the Boar, the Vulture and the Serpent.
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- Family Relations. Son of Zeus and Hera, Ares' sisters were Hebe and Eileithyia. Despite being a god, the Greeks considered him from Thrace, perhaps in an attempt to associate him with what they thought of as foreign and war-loving peoples, wholly different from themselves.
- Battle with Hercules. The most popular myth involving Ares was his fight with Hercules. Ares' son Kyknos was infamous for waylaying pilgrims on their way to the oracle at Delphi, and so earned the displeasure of Apollo, who sent Hercules to deal with him.
- The Trojan War. In Homer's version of the Trojan War in the Iliad, Ares supports the Trojans, sometimes even leading them in battle along with Hector. The Iliad shows Ares in a less than positive light and a rather unpopular member of the Greek pantheon.
- Athens & Cult. Ares again upset the harmony of Olympus when he was accused of killing Poseidon's son Halirrhothios near a stream below the Athenian acropolis.
Ares, Greek god of war. Unlike his Roman counterpart, Mars, his worship was not extensive. From the time of Homer, he was one of the Olympian deities, the son of Zeus and Hera, but disliked by the other gods. His worship occurred largely in northern Greece.
Sep 29, 2018 · Who is Ares? Ares is the Greek god of war that was known for his destructive behavior. While it is known that Athena was also a goddess of war (and sibling to Ares) the two couldn’t be any more different.
