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Aries (Latin for "ram"), the constellation and Zodiac sign is unrelated to Ares, the Greek god of war described below. Ares Galaxy, the peer-to-peer file sharing program, is also unrelated to Ares.
The Amateur Radio Emergency Service is also unrelated to the god Ares.
Greek deities
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| Primordial deities
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| Titans
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| Aquatic deities
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| Chthonic deities
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| Personified concepts
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| Other deities
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| Olympians
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| Zeus and Hera,
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| Poseidon, Hades,
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| Hestia, Demeter,
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| Aphrodite, Athena,
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| Apollo, Artemis,
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| Ares, Hephaestus,
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| Hermes, Dionysus
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Ares ("man," "male, "strife"), in Greek mythology, is the god of war and son of Zeus and Hera. Also called Mars by the Romans. When Halirrhotius raped Alcippe, Ares' daughter by Aglaulus, Ares murdered him, for which he was tried in a court -- the first murder trial in history. He was acquitted. His companions included his sister Eris, his sons Phobos and Deimos and EnyoIn Greek mythology, Enyo ("horror") was an ancient goddess known by the epithet "Waster of Cities" and frequently depicted as being covered in blood and carrying weapons of war. She was frequently portrayed as a companion of Ares, the chief god of war, an. Ares was followed by a retinue including Pain, Panic, Famine and Oblivion. Though immortal, he was very sensitive to pain and went running to his father, Zeus, whenever he got wounded. He was worshipped primarily in Thracia.
OtusGreek Mythology) Otus : see under Aloadae # (Biology) Otus is also a genus of owls, called scops owl. and EphialtesEphialtes was the son of Eurydemus of Malis. He betrayed the Spartan king Leonidas at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, by helping the Persian king Xerxes I find another route around the pass of Thermopylae. This allowed the Persians to defeat the smal were two brothers and giants. The brothers at one point wanted to storm Mt. Olympus. They managed to kidnap Ares and hold him in a jar for thirteen months. He was only released when ArtemisThis article is about the Greek goddess. For other meanings of the term, see Artemis (disambiguation). Hellenistis marble sculpture (now at the Louvre Museum,seen here in a 19th century engraving In Greek mythology Artemis ("fashion") is the daughter of Z offered to sleep with Otus. This made Ephialtes envious and the pair fought. Artemis changed herself into a doe and jumped between them. The Aloadae, not wanting her to get away, threw their spears and killed each other.
Ares gave HippolyteIn Greek mythology, Hippolyte was an Amazonian queen who possessed a magical girdle given to her by Ares, her father. One of Heracles' Twelve Labors was to retrieve this girdle. He had succeeded but, at the last moment, his traveling companion, Theseus, k the girdle that HeraclesFor the son of Alexander the Great, see Heracles (Macedon). In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles ("glory of Hera") was the demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene, the grand-daughter of Perseus and the wife of Amphitryon. In Roman mythology he was called Herc took.
One night, while having sex with Aphrodite, Ares put a youth named Alectryon by his door to guard them. He fell asleep and Helios, the sun, walked in on the couple. Ares turned Alectryon into a rooster, which never forgets to announce the arrival of the sun in the morning.
During the Trojan War, Diomedes fought with Hector and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans' side. Diomedes called for his soldiers to fall back slowly. Hera, Ares' mother, saw Ares' interference and asked Zeus, Ares' father, for permission to drive Ares away from the battlefield. Hera encouraged Diomedes to attack Ares and he threw his spear at the god. Athena drove the spear into Ares' body and he bellowed in pain and fled to Mt. Olympus, forcing the Trojans to fall back.
In some versions of the story of Adonis, Artemis or Ares (her lover in this story) sent a wild boar to kill Adonis. This version is suspect because it implies that Artemis had sex with Ares and by virtually all accounts, she remained chaste throughout time.
Although important in poetry and myth, Ares was only rarely the recipient of cult worship. Even then, he was venerated most often in conjunction with other gods; for example, he shared a temple with Aphrodite at Thebes.
Ares Enyalius was sometimes used as an epithet for Ares. Interestingly, the Mycenean Greek Linear B tablets list a god Enyalios , while ares seems to be a common noun meaning "war". By Classical times, however, Enyalios has been demoted to the status of hero (as in the Iliad) and Ares promoted to god. Enyalios survives as a cult-title in only a few settings, most notably in the oath of the ephebes at Athens.
Consorts/Children
- Aglaulus
- Alcippe
- Aphrodite
- Anteros
- Deimos
- Eros
- Harmonia
- Himerus
- Hymenaios
- Phobos
- Priapus
- Astyoche
- Ascalaphus
- Atalanta
- Parthenopeus
- Chryse
- Phlegyas
- Cyrene
- Diomedes
- Otrera
- Hippolyte
- Penthesilea
- Rhea Silvia
- Remus
- Romulus
- Sterope
- Oenomaus
- Unknown mother
- Antiope
- Biston
- Cycnus
- Enyo
- Eurytion
- Tereus
- Unknown woman
- Antiope
- Hippolyte
- Melanippe
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