The most celebrated of these was Penthesileia who joined the Trojan War. >Īres actively supported his Amazon-queen daughters in their many wars and battles. >ĭuring the battle between Herakles and Ares' villianous Kyknos (Cycnus), the god intervened but was wounded by the hero and forced to flee back to Olympos. >Īres apprehended the criminal Sisyphos, an impious man who had dared to kidnap the god of death Thanatos.
He was tried at the court of the Areiopagos in Athens but acquitted of murder. The god slew Hallirhothios to avenge the rape of his daughter Alkippe. >Īres transformed his daughter Harmonia and her husband Kadmos (Cadmus) of Thebes into serpents and had them carried away to the Islands of the Blessed. When Aphrodite fell in love with the handsome youth Adonis, the god grew jealous, transformed himself into a boar, and gorged the boy to death as he was out hunting. MYTHSĪres had an adulterous affair with the goddess Aphrodite but her husband Hephaistos trapped the pair in a golden net and humiliated them by calling the rest of the gods to witness. 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.
Mars Ares, Athenian black-figure amphora C6th B.C., Worcester Art MuseumĪRES was the Olympian god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order.
