Ares
Greek · deity · primordial · deity
The Greek war-god as Greeks themselves treated him: a force more cursed than honored. Homer's Zeus calls him the most hateful of the gods. Cult presence narrow — most prominent at Sparta (where his statue was kept chained) and at Thebes (via the Cadmus-Harmonia line). Distinct from his Roman interpretatio Mars, who was the begetter of Romulus and central to Roman civic identity in a way Ares never was at Athens.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- war violence
- battle frenzy
Powers
- Rouse murderous war-frenzy
- Instill battle-panic and rout
- Instill battle-panic and rout
- Rouse murderous war-frenzy
Epithets
- Ἐνυάλιος
- Θοῦρος
- Βροτολοιγός
- Ἀρειος (Ἄρης Γυναικοθοίνας)
Relations
- companion: Deimos
- sibling: Eileithyia
- companion: Phobos
- sibling: Hebe
- sibling: Apollo
- sibling: Aeacus
- sibling: Athena
- sibling: Dionysus
- sibling: Artemis
- sibling: Hermes
- lover: Otrera
- lover: Aphrodite
- enemy: Athena
- interpretatio: Mars
- interpretatio: Sword-God of War (Scythian Ares)
- interpretatio: Kandaon, the Thracian War-Lord