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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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Images

Ancient Sources

• Birth of Athene: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Birth of Athene: Overview, Detail
  Info, Archaic

• Ares: Image
  Leagros Group, ca 515-500 BC, MM

• Ares and Aphrodite: Image
  Oltos, ca 515-500 BC, MM

• Courtship of Venus and Mars: Image
  House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto, Pompeii, ca 30 AD, AA

• Ares and Aphrodite: Image
  Roman wall painting, 1st century AD, MM

Later Representations in Art

• Mars and Venus: Image
  Botticelli, Sandro, 15th century, WT

• Mars and Venus caught in the net and shown by Vulcan to gods: Large image, 50% image
  Heemskerk, Martin Van, 1536, MM

• Mars and Rhea Silvia: Image
  Rubens, Peter Paul, ca 1620, MM

Also see Ares texts.

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