ARES

The God of War, son of Zeus and Hera, both of whom. indeed, he is hateful throughout the Iliad, poem of war through it is. Occasionally the heroes" joice in delightof Ares battle, but for oftener in having escaped" the fury of the ruthless god". Homer calls him murderous, bloodstained the incarnate curse of mortals; and strangely, a cowrd too, who bellows with pain and runs away when he is wounded.

Ares figures little in mythology. In one story he is the lover of Aphrodite and help up to the contempt of the Olypmians by Aphrodite's husband.

he had no cities where he was worshipped. The Greeks said vaguely that he came from the Thrace, home of a rude, fierce people in the northeast of Greece.

Appropriately, his bird was the vulture. The dog was wronged by being chosen as his animal.