Ares | |
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Parents |
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Consort |
Aphrodite(mentioned) |
Siblings |
List of Zeus and Hera's children |
Home |
Mount Olympus |
Patron of |
War and Bloodshed |
Children |
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Weapons |
His strength, sword, shield warfare weapons |
Relatives |
Titans |
Powers |
Immortality, magic, transformation, etc. |
Age |
Immortal |
Ares is the god of war, bloodlust, violence, manly courage, and civil order. and a member of the Twelve Olympians, a son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Olympian god of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodthirst, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war." He also presides over the weapons of war, the defence and sacking of cities, rebellion and civil order, banditry, manliness and courage. His symbols are the golden armour and the bronze-tipped spear. His sacred animals are the vulture, venemous snakes, alligators, dogs, and boars.