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Ares is the god of war and conflict. He is also known as Mars (Roman). Ares is depicted as a warrior but, as he has no unique attributes in iconography, he can only be identified by context or inscription.

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Texts

Birth

• Apollodorus 1.3.2

• Pausanias 2.13.3

• Hesiod: Theogony 920

Domain

• Plato: Laws 920e

• Hesiod: Works and Days 145

• Homeric Hymn 8.1

• Homeric Hymn 11.1

Sexual Encounters and Offspring

• Aerope: Pausanias 8.44.7

• Agraulus -> Alcippe: Apollodorus 3.14.3, Pausanias 1.24.4

• Aphrodite (Cytherea) -> Harmonia, Panic, and Fear: Apollodorus 3.4.2, Pausanias 5.18.5, Plato: Symposium 196d, Pindar: Pythian 4.86, Hesiod: Theogony 930, Homer: Odyssey 8.265, Homer: Odyssey 8.295, Homer: Odyssey 8.343

• Cyrene -> Diomedes: Apollodorus 2.5.9

• Dawn: Apollodorus 1.4.4

• Demonice -> Evenus, Molus, Pylus, and Thestius: Apollodorus 1.7.7

• Otrere -> Penthesilia: Apollodorus e.5.2

• Protogenia -> Oxylus: Apollodorus 1.7.7

• Pyrene -> Cycnus: Apollodorus 2.5.12, Apollodorus 2.7.8

Other Encounters

• Aloads: Apollodorus 1.7.4, Homer: Iliad 5.363

• Apollo: Pausanias 5.7.10

• Athene: Homer: Iliad 21.361, Homer: Iliad 21.400

• Cadmus: Apollodorus 3.4.2

• Diomedes and Athene: Homer: Iliad 5.835, Homer: Iliad 5.864, Homer: Iliad 5.899

• Heracles: Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 39, Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 78, Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 327, Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 402, Hesiod: Shield of Heracles 443

• Hippolyte: Apollodorus 2.5.10

• Oenomaus: Apollodorus e.2.5

• Poseidon: Apollodorus 3.14.3, Pausanias 1.21.4, Pausanias 1.28.5

Also see Ares images.

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