The Greek gods may also have had their origins in the personification of material objects: Ares representing iron, and Dionysus wine.

There was a possible use of the Centaur as an upper stage on the new Delta IV Heavy rocket, which started test flights in 2004, and may have even been used as a high-energy " kick motor " for planetary probes launched on board the 125-ton Ares V, which would have seen its first flight around 2018.

This still places the older Homeric Hymns among the oldest monuments of Greek literature ; but although most of them were composed in the seventh and sixth centuries, a few may be Hellenistic, and the Hymn to Ares might be a late pagan work, inserted when it was observed that a hymn to Ares was lacking.

Similar high levels were found by other rovers at Ares Vallis and Gusev Crater, so it has been hypothesized that the mantle of Mars may be phosphorus-rich.

Similar high levels were found by other rovers at Ares Vallis and Gusev Crater, so it has been hypothesized that the mantle of Mars may be phosphorus-rich.

Further, the statue seen by Pausanias may not have been intended for Telesilla ; it would equally represent Aphrodite, in her character as wife of Ares and a warlike goddess ( the books, however, seem out of place ).

Ares or ARES may also refer to:

Her unhappiness with her marriage caused Aphrodite to seek out companionship from others, most frequently Ares, but also Adonis.

Pausanias, also refers to a statue of Ares by Alcamenes that was erected on the Athenian agora, which some have related to the Ares Borghese.

Greek writers under Roman rule also recorded cult practices and beliefs pertaining to Mars under the name of Ares.

Ares was also worshipped by the Baharna of Tylos, however it is not known in the form of which Arabian god or if he was worshipped in his Greek form.

Enyo, a war goddess responsible with the destruction of cities and attendant of Ares, is also mentioned as a daughter of Zeus and Hera, though Homer equates her with Eris.

On land, the workmen also built walls and watchtowers, a Greek – style theatre and a temple to Ares — the Greek god of war.

Pausanias ( 5. 22. 1 ) and Diodorus Siculus ( 4. 73. 1 ) also mention a daughter Harpina and state that according to the traditions of the Eleans and Phliasians Ares lay with her in the city of Pisa and she bore him Oenomaus who Pausanias says ( 6. 21. 6 ) founded the city of Harpina named after her, not far from the river Harpinates.

She is also accredited as the mother of Enyalius, a minor war god, by Ares.

However, the name Enyalius can also be used as a title for Ares himself.

Oeagrus has also sometimes been called the son of the god Ares, who was associated with Thrace.

The Macedonian Cycnus, according to the Bibliotheca, also challenged Heracles to single combat ; Ares attempted to avenge his son's death, but a thunderbolt was hurled by Zeus between the combatants, causing them to part.

Locrus was also a Parian statuary, of unknown date whose statue of Athena in the temple of Ares, at Athens, is mentioned by Pausanias.

In Greek mythology, Oeneus, or Oineus ( Οἰνεύς ) was a Calydonian king, son of Porthaon and Euryte, husband of Althaea and father of Deianeira, Meleager, Toxeus, Clymenus, Periphas, Agelaus, Thyreus ( or Phereus or Pheres ), Gorge, Eurymede, Mothone, Perimede and Melanippe ( although Meleager's and Deianeira's fathers could also have been Ares and Dionysus respectively ).

There is also a version with Ares.

Red Mars starts in 2026 with the first colonial voyage to Mars aboard the Ares, the largest interplanetary spacecraft ever built ( interestingly, from clustered space shuttle external fuel tanks which, instead of incinerating in the atmosphere, have been boosted into orbit until enough had been amassed to build a ship and also used as landing craft ) and home to a crew who are to be the first hundred Martian colonists.

Danaë was childless and to keep her so, he imprisoned her in a bronze chamber open to the sky in the courtyard of his palace: This mytheme is also connected to Ares, Oenopion, Eurystheus, etc.

A third magazine, Ares, devoted to science-fiction and fantasy games and including one in each issue, was also published for a time.

She also drew baths for Ares and helped Hera enter her chariot.

Ares also uses hashlinks for its Windows Live Messenger style chatrooms and its direct chat tool.

Gabrielle also fights against warriors with notable skill ; she defeats the warrior Mavican and stands against Ares and Hades ( two gods ) in battle for a period of time, before they defeat her.

This rosy-fingered, saffron-robed and golden-throned goddess, who goes up to Olympus to announce the light to the immortals, fell in love several times, and some say it was Aphrodite who cursed her to be perpetually in love, because once had Eos lain with Aphrodite's sweetheart Ares, god of war.

The first flight of the Ares rocket ( not to be confused with the similarly named rocket of the now defunct Constellation Program ) would bring an unmanned Earth Return Vehicle to the red planet after a 6 month cruise phase, with a supply of hydrogen, a chemical plant and a small nuclear reactor.

* Desolation Road ( 1988 ) by Ian McDonald is a magic-realist science fiction novel set on a planet that's never explicitly named ( though the name " Ares " makes frequent appearances in various contexts ) but is clearly meant to be a terraformed Mars.

* Diomedes was first thrown by a storm on the coast of Lycia, where he was to be sacrificed to Ares by king Lycus, but Callirrhoe, the king's daughter, took pity upon him, and assisted him in escaping.

Tuesday is considered to be dominated by the influence of Ares ( Mars ), the god of war.

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

The email appeared to suggest that Griffin believed the only reasonable solution was to extend the operation of the shuttle beyond 2010, but noted that Executive Policy ( i. e., the White House ) is firm that there will be no extension of the shuttle retirement date, and thus no U. S. capability to launch crews into orbit until the Ares I / Orion system becomes operational in 2014 at the very earliest.

During this time the Ares I and Orion as well as the Altair Lunar Lander were to be under development ( although now these programs have been canceled ).

* In Star Trek: Voyager, a fictional spacecraft named Ares IV ( not to be confused with the actual Ares IV rocket ) is launched in early 2032 and trapped inside a graviton ellipse, a huge body of subspace energy travelling through the galaxy.

It is based on the Qt framework and will support connectivity to the Gnutella2, Ares and eDonkey2000 networks, and will be able to download from HTTP, FTP, and BitTorrent sources.

It would be found at Colchis, in a grove sacred to Ares, the God of War.

Anteros was the son of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given to his brother Eros, who was lonely, as a playmate, the rationale being that love must be answered if it is to prosper.

Up to 80 metric tons can be lifted to low earth orbit on a Phase 2 HLV vehicle — a substantial fraction of a Saturn V or Ares V vehicle.

Polybius ' history renders the Roman god Mars by Greek Ares but the Roman god Quirinus by Enyalius, and the same identifications are made by later writers such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, perhaps only because it made sense that a Roman god who was sometimes confounded with Mars and sometimes differentiated should be represented in Greek by a name that was similarly sometimes equated with Ares ( who definitely corresponded with Mars ) and was sometimes differentiated.

Accounts vary as to his own parentage: one source states that he was thought to be the son of Orchomenus and Hermippe, his real father being Poseidon ; in another account he is called son of Poseidon and Callirhoe ; yet others variously give his father as Chryses ( son of Poseidon and Chrysogeneia, daughter of Almus ), Ares, Aleus or Eteoclus.

In Greek mythology, Spartoí (, literal translation: " sown ", from σπείρω, speírō, " to sow ") are a mythical people who were held to be Ares ' children.

These five helped Cadmus to found the city of Thebes, but Cadmus was forced to be a slave to Ares for one year to atone for killing the dragon.

At the end of the year, he was given Harmonia, the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares, to be his wife.