Ares(Mars)

What does he represent?

• Violence
• Physical untamed aspect of war

Parents

• Parents: Hera "and Zeus"-not really because Hera took some herbs to get pregnant without a partner (Zeus hates Ares)
• Ares was 1 of their 12 children

Some of his many Children

• Ares and Harmony (peace-loving nymph) had Amazons(women warriors)
• Ares and Aphrodite(bottom of background picture)

Symbols

Myth of Ares childhood

• Hera had him without a partner because she wanted to get even with Zeus for having a child without her(he had a child living in his thigh b/c the mother died)
• Zeus disliked Ares. Once Ares went missing a few years because he was abducted by the giant Aloadai twins and was kept in a bronze Jar and Zeus didn't go looking for him. Hermes was the one who let him out of the jar.

Ares isn't in many myths but when he is he's usually being humiliated...

Trojan War

• In the Trojan War Ares sided with Aphrodite and fought for Hector up until Athena guided a Greek warrior's arrow to pierce Ares. Ares then departed the battlefield to complain to Zeus about Athena's violence