1/4/2023 0 Comments God of war greek mythologyBut in the final battle of the Trojan War all the gods, with the permission of Zeus, ran fully armored in the battlefield. So Zeus instructed Paionian, doctor of the gods to heal his wound. Know that if your father was any other, he would have thrown you in Tartarus, even more below than the Titans.”Īlthough Zeus used insulting words, Ares was his son was and he could not bear to see him hurt and crying. You are a stubborn head exactly like your mother Hera. “Are you not ashamed to come before me whining? Know that I hate you, because you always like wars, fights and quarrels. Ares first threw his bronze spear against mortal warrior, but the unseen Athena repelled it with both her hands and it fell on the ground.Īres (Mars) Greek God - Art Picture by TaekwondoNJ Then she stood on the chariot of Diomedes that started battle with Ares, without knowing of course that he was against an Olympian god. The wise goddess wore the Kynee, the cap of her uncle Hades, which made her invisible, and jumped at once from Olympus in the Trojan plain. Immediately Hera sent Athena to arrange the matter as she knew. He accepted, since he was not at all fond of his son. Hera was indignant with her son who, since childhood, only caused problems, ran to Zeus and asked permission to evict Ares from the battle, injuring him. For some time, he stood by at the main hero of the Trojans, Hector, who decimated the Achaean warriors, since Achilles was missing from the battlefield. But, seduced by the beauty of Aphrodite, he passed at a critical moment in the opposing faction. The most significant conflicts between them were made during the Trojan War.Īres (Mars) Greek God - Art Picture by PeterprimeĪs we are informed by Homer, the brawler God had promised to his mother Hera and Athena to help the Greeks. That's why most of the times she prevailed against bellicose Ares and was bringing him to shame. But Athena was, in parallel, the goddess of wisdom, so she was combining power with intelligence. The biggest controversy was between Ares with Athena, who was also a war goddess. His love to cause wars and quarrels made him obnoxious not only to other gods but also to his father Zeus, who never missed an opportunity to attack him and call him a "stubborn head". He was always thirsty for blood and his main feature was the irrational rage and the lack of any courtesy.Īres belongs to the second generation of Olympians. So the Greeks coined a god, Ares, who personified this terrible scourge. The ancient Greek mythology is dominated by two major combat operations: the ten-year Trojan War and the Argonaut’s campaign. Since ancient times the people, in order to solve their differences resorted to the most painful act for humans, war. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war, in contrast to the armored Athena, whose functions as a goddess of intelligence include military strategy and generalship. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. Ares (Mars) Greek God - Art Picture by GenzoManĪres (Roman equivalent is Mars) was the Greek god of war.
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