'''Ares''' was the Olympian god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. In ancient Greek art he was depicted as either a mature, bearded warrior armed for battle, or a nude, beardless youth with a helm and spear.

Ares is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were ambivalent towards him. He embodies the physical valor necessary for success in war but can also personify sheer brutality and bloodlust, in contrast to his sister Athena, whose martial functions include military strategy and generalship. An association with Ares endows places, objects, and other deities with a savage, dangerous, or militarized quality.

Although Ares' name shows his origins as Mycenaean, his reputation for savagery was thought by some to reflect his likely origins as a Thracian deity. Some cities in Greece and several in Asia Minor held annual festivals to bind and detain him as their protector. In parts of Asia Minor, he was an oracular deity. Still further away from Greece, the Scythians were said to ritually kill one in a hundred prisoners of war as an offering to their equivalent of Ares. The later belief that ancient Spartans had offered human sacrifice to Ares may owe more to mythical prehistory, misunderstandings, and reputation than to reality.

Though there are many literary allusions to Ares' love affairs and children, he has a limited role in Greek mythology. When he does appear, he is often humiliated. In the Trojan War, Aphrodite, protector of Troy, persuades Ares to take the Trojans' side. The Trojans lose, while Ares' sister Athena helps the Greeks to victory. Most famously, when the craftsman-god Hephaestus discovers his wife Aphrodite is having an affair with Ares, he traps the lovers in a net and exposes them to the ridicule of the other gods.

The mythology surrounding the figure of Ares is not extensive. He was associated with Aphrodite from earliest times; in fact, Aphrodite was known locally (e.g., at Sparta) as a war goddess, apparently an early facet of her character. Occasionally, Aphrodite was Ares’ legitimate wife, and by her he fathered Deimos, Phobos (who accompanied him into battle), Harmonia, and—as first told by Simonides in the 6th century bce—Eros, god of love. By Aglauros, the daughter of Cecrops, he was the father of Alcippe. He was the sire of at least three of Heracles’ adversaries: Cycnus, Lycaon, and Diomedes of Thrace. On vases, Ares is usually the typical armed warrior. The Parthenon frieze contains a group of Olympians, among whom Ares, in unwarlike garb, has been tentatively identified. He also appears on the great frieze of the altar at Pergamum.

Ares' nearest counterpart in Roman religion is Mars, who was given a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion as ancestral protector of the Roman people and state. During the Hellenization of Latin literature, the myths of Ares were reinterpreted by Roman writers under the name of Mars, and in later Western art and literature, the mythology of the two figures became virtually indistinguishable. The Etruscans, in turn, identified him with Laran.

Below are characters from Greek mythology who are considered children of Ares. In some cases there are conflicting stories about who their parents are. A complete list is here.
*Erotes (Eros and Anteros)
*Phobos
*Deimos
*Phlegyas
*Harmonia
*Enyalius
*Thrax
*Oenomaus
*Cycnus
*the Amazons

All published appearances of Ares from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Notable appearances are listed here and below:

*Iliad
*Odyssey
*Theogony by Hesiod
*Dionysiaca by Nonnus
*Bibliotheca by Pseudo‐Apollodorus

*Homeric Hymn 8 to Ares
*Orphic Hymn 65 to Ares

*Wikipedia
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/ares/4005-70037/ Comicvine]
*[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ClassicalMythologySecondGenerationOlympians TV Tropes]
*Myths in Media Wiki
*Myth & Folklore Wiki
*[https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Ares.html Theoi]
*[https://www.giantbomb.com/ares/3005-1098/ GiantBomb]
*Religion Wiki
*Gacha Games Wiki
*[https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ares-Greek-mythology Britannica]
*DC Wiki
*Marvel Wiki
*Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki
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