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Ares is the god of war, one of the Twelve Olympian gods and the son of Zeus and Hera. In literature he represents the violent and physical untamed aspect of war, which is in contrast to Athena who represents military strategy and generalship as the goddess of intelligence. Although Ares embodied the physical aggression necessary for success in ...
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Dec 7, 2023 · Key Takeaways: Ares was the Greek god of war and had immense physical strength. He had the power to cause destruction and bloodshed in battles. Ares possessed various skills in fighting, weaponry, strategy, and tactics. He played a significant role in the Trojan War, supporting the city of Troy.
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Sep 4, 2019 · Ares. Copy of the Severian period after a Greek bronze original by Alkamenes dated 420 BC. From the sacred area in Largo Argentina, 1925. (Public Domain) Ares was one of Hera and Zeus’s sons and his power was well-known. He may have also been an icon of an attractive man in ancient Greece because he had a few children with different lovers.
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Apr 16, 2024 · By Aglauros, the daughter of Cecrops, he was the father of Alcippe. He was the sire of at least three of Heracles’ adversaries: Cycnus, Lycaon, and Diomedes of Thrace. On vases, Ares is usually the typical armed warrior. The Parthenon frieze contains a group of Olympians, among whom Ares, in unwarlike garb, has been tentatively identified.
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- Who was Ares?Ares was the ancient Greek god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaught...
- What was Ares's relation with Aphrodite?Ares was associated with Aphrodite from the earliest times; in fact, Aphrodite was known locally (e.g., at Sparta) as a war goddess, apparently an...
- Who were the parents of Ares?From at least the time of Homer, Ares was established as the son of the chief god, Zeus, and Hera, his consort. Ares was one of the Olympian deities.
- Which Greek deity besides Ares was usually assigned to the sphere of war?Zeus, the chief god, specifically assigns the sphere of war to Ares, the god of war, and Athena. Athena’s moral and military superiority to Ares de...
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Ares was the God of War, son of Zeus and Hera, and one of the most prominent and powerful Gods of Olympus. He was born after the Great War of the Gods and Titans and served his father faithfully for many years. He was also a rival of Athena, his sister, because they were both gods, one of War, the other of Wisdom, and wished that the other would st...
Alliance with the Furies
Ares came to covet all of Olympus, especially Zeus's throne, so he struck an alliance with the Furies, and persuaded them to take a more ruthless approach. After learning of the prophecy of the Marked Warrior, who is destined to destroy Olympus and kill Zeus, Ares conceived a child with Alecto in the hope that their child would be the marked one so that he could aid him in overthrowing Zeus and claiming his throne. Unfortunately, Orkos, Ares' child, was not up to his standards and was disowne...
Encountering Kratos
Two Gods of Olympus, Ares, and Athena, raided the city of Sparta in order to capture a child named Deimos, who had been suspected of being the mortal who would destroy Olympus in The Marked Warrior Prophecy. After Ares captured the boy, Deimos' brother, Kratos, charged toward Ares to save his younger brother. Despite his efforts, however, Ares brutally struck Kratos in the face and created a bloody scar on his right eye. Ares was about to kill the boy when Athena persuaded her brother to leav...
Wager of the Gods
Years later, the Gods created a contest/wager and chose various mortals as their champions for the capture of the Ambrosia. In the wager of the Gods, Ares was seen in the comics choosing Kratos as his champion and was confident that nothing would stop him in his quest for the Ambrosia. After a grueling journey, Kratos captured the Ambrosia and thus made Ares the victor of the wager.
Ares was one of the mentors of God of War: Ascension's Multiplayer and the only mentor who was not a son of Cronos. His statue was the first one in the Rotunda of Olympus.
Ares appears as a giant warrior god. He wears a brown sleeveless tunic, shoulder pieces with cerberus faces built into them, and has bracers and boots with chains on them. His boots go up to his knees. He has long hair and a beard, which seem to be made of fire. He can grow bladed spider legs from his back.
Being the God of War, Violence and Bloodshed, Ares is cruel, sadistic, and violent, as seen by him caring only about spreading chaos and conflict across the world. According to Zeus, Ares only feels joy when destroying cities and nations. Ares is also extremely greedy and power hungry, as exemplified by his desire to destroy his father, so he can r...
Powers
As the original God of War, Ares possessed a formidable arsenal of superhuman and magical abilities - all in correlation with combat and warfare, as these were his spheres of influence. His powers were considerably stronger than lesser gods. Befitting his name, Ares was a mighty fighter and one of the most powerful Olympian Gods. 1. Pocket Dimension Manipulation: Ares was seemingly able to create what appears to be a physical pocket dimension that he could control completely. Ares demonstrate...
Abilities
1. Master Combatant: As an Original God of War, Ares was one of the most imposing and skilled warrior of Olympus, surpassed possibly only by his father, uncles and his rival, Athena. He had mastered all weapons used in the war including swords, axes, war hammers and his back spider-like blades which coupled with his godly powers and physical prowess made him even more formidable. Even after Kratos gains power from Pandora's Box, Ares proved himself to be an extremely hard adversary, fighting...
Ares is the final boss of God of Warand is easily one of the most difficult bosses in the entire series. Being faced in a series of three consecutive battles with no respite between them, Ares has by far the longest boss sequence of the whole franchise.
Zeus
Unlike most of the other gods, Ares ignored Zeus's orders and had no fear of Zeus's wrath, to the point that he challenged his father several times while mocking him for sending a "broken mortal" to fight him, instead of facing Ares by himself.
Athena
Ares has a deep hatred for his sister, as he refuses to even stay in Olympus when she is around. Ares considers Athena weak and is always trying to prove himself as superior to the goddess of war, or attacking her in every opportunity, as when he would command Kratos to attack the villages and cities that were sacred to the goddess. Ares envies the amount of respect and worship that Athena receives from other deities and mortals, while he himself is hated and despised.
Kratos
Back in the days when Kratos was still his servant, Ares considered him an almost "perfect warrior", possibly because they both shared the same rage, hatred and love for bloodshed. However, unlike Ares, Kratos still loved and cared deeply for his family; feelings that were considered a weakness by the god of war. After Kratos abandoned Ares, the warrior god started to despise Kratos, considering him just a "broken mortal" with no value and saying he was every bit as weak as the day the Sparta...
Ares is technically responsible for the events of the Greek-era games of the series: by tricking Kratos into killing his family, he would set him on the path that would lead to Olympus' destruction.Ares is among the very few characters to successfully kill Kratos like Charon, Zeus and Thor.A secret video of the original game had Kratos revealing that he trapped Ares' soul inside a secret room, and he will eventually use it against the gods. It is never mentioned again and by the end...Ares was voiced by Steven Blum in God of War and God of War: Ascension, and by Fred Tatasciore in God of War III. Interestingly, he shared the same voice actor (Steven Blum) as Lucifer from the ani...Ares ( / ˈɛəriːz /; Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs [árɛːs]) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. The Greeks were ambivalent towards him.
Ares is the Olympian god of war. However, unlike Athena, he represents merely its destructive capacity and is typically the personification of sheer violence and brutality. Consequently, he was loved neither by gods nor by men. That is, with the exception of Aphrodite, who bore him many children out of wedlock.
