Ares God o War 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]
↑ 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.
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