Ares

Ares
	God o War
	Statue o Ares frae Hadrian's Villa
Abode	Thrace, Munt Olympus, Macedonie & Sparta
Symbol	spear, helmet, dog, chariot, boar
Personal Information
Childer	Erotes (Eros an Anteros), Phobos, Deimos, Phlegyas, Harmonia, an Adrestia
Parents	Zeus an Hera
Siblins	Eris, Hebe, Hephaestus, Enyo, an Eileithyia
Roman equivalent	Maurs

Ares (Ancient Greek: Ἄρης [árɛːs], Μodren Greek: Άρης [ˈaris]) is the Greek god o war. He is ane o the Twal Olympians, an the son o Zeus an Hera.^[1] In Greek leeteratur, he aften represents the pheesical or violent aspect o war, in contrast tae the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess o intelligence include militar strategy an generalship.^[2]

Notes[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ Hesiod, Theogony 921 (Loeb Classical Library numbering); Iliad, 5.890–896. Bi contrast, Ares' Roman coonterpairt Maurs wis born frae Juno alane, accordin tae Ovid (Fasti 5.229–260).
↑ Walter Burkert, Greek Religion (Blackwell, 1985, 2004 reprint, originally published 1977 in German), pp. 141; William Hansen, Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 113.