Ares
is the god of war and the crude opposite of Athena. His
favorite way
of talking is
the
fight, which has priority
in front of all other
solutions. In every
every bloodshed and in
every war picture of the ancient time Ares can be seen standing there
in full armour.
Normally he is also considered as the unpleasant member
of the 12 gods of the Olympus because
of his
thoughtless behaviour.
In
Theban the people venerated him as
the former founder of the city,
since his
daughter Harmonia was the wife of the Theban King
Kadmos.
Ares
had many love affairs and many children born from them. In one of them he
even cheated Hephaestus
with his wife Aphrodite and had numerous children with her
(Harmonia is one of them).
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