Ares (Mars among the Romans) is the god of war, the bringer of death and destruction, the ancient Greek ideal of a brave warrior. Compared to other gods of Greece, he enjoyed less honor.
The god of war, the frantic Ares, is the son of the thunderer Zeus and Hera. Zeus doesn't like him. He often tells his son that he is the most hated among the gods of Olympus. Zeus does not like his son for his bloodthirstiness. If Ares had not been his son, he would have long ago cast him into the gloomy Tartarus, where the titans languish. The heart of the ferocious Ares is pleased only by brutal battles. Furious, he rushes among the roar of weapons, screams and groans of battle between the combatants, in sparkling weapons, with a huge shield. Following him rush his sons, Deimos and Phobos - horror and fear, and next to them is the goddess of discord Eris and the murderous goddess Enyuo. The battle is boiling and roaring; Ares rejoices; The warriors fall with a groan. Ares triumphs when he slays a warrior with his terrible sword and hot blood flows to the ground. He strikes indiscriminately both right and left; a pile of bodies around a cruel god.
Ares is fierce, furious, and formidable, but victory does not always accompany him. Ares often has to yield to the warlike daughter of Zeus, Pallas Athena, on the battlefield. She defeats Ares with wisdom and a calm consciousness of strength. Often, mortal heroes defeat Ares, especially if they are helped by the bright-eyed Pallas Athena. This is how the hero Diomedes struck Ares with a copper spear under the walls of Troy. Athena herself directed the blow. The terrible cry of the wounded god echoed far across the army of the Trojans and Greeks. As if ten thousand warriors screamed at once, entering into a fierce battle, Ares, covered in copper armor, screamed in pain. The Greeks and Trojans shuddered in horror, and the frantic Ares rushed, shrouded in a dark cloud, covered in blood, complaining about Athena to his father Zeus. But Father Zeus did not listen to his complaints. He does not love his son, who only enjoys strife, battles and murder.
Even if Ares' wife, the most beautiful of the goddesses Aphrodite, comes to the aid of her husband when he meets Athena in the heat of battle, and then the beloved daughter of the thunderer Zeus emerges victorious. The warrior Athena throws the beautiful goddess of love Aphrodite to the ground with one blow. With tears, the eternally young, marvelously beautiful Aphrodite ascends to Olympus, followed by triumphant laughter and the ridicule of Athena.
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