Ares God of War, for instance is an egotistical man who wears studded black leather, and Aphrodite Goddess of Love is a California Valley Girl who uses typical Valley Girl slang and dresses in flowing, translucent pink gowns.

Actor Kevin Tod Smith played popular character Ares, God of War, and Alexandra Tydings played his counterpart Aphrodite, Goddess of Love.

Also in the first season, Xena and Gabrielle meet two of their biggest enemies: Callisto ( Hudson Leick ), a vengeful warrior woman, and Ares ( Kevin Tod Smith ), the Greek God of War.

The most important deities were: Zeus, the supreme god and ruler of the sky ; Hera, his wife and goddess of marriage ; Athena, goddess of wisdom ; Poseidon, god of the sea ; Demeter, goddess of the earth ; Apollo, god of the sun, law, reason, music and poetry ; Artemis, goddess of the moon, the hunt and the wilderness ; Aphrodite, goddess of love ; Ares, God of war ; Hermes, god of commerce and medicine, and Hephaestus, god of fire and metalwork.

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

He published the text he says he received from God in The Book, second part of The Revelation of Ares.

Mikaboshi also stole Alexander, the son of Ares, and brainwashed Alexander into becoming his personal God of War.

Ares Lusitani ( Latin for the Lusitanian Ares ) was the God of horses and knights in Lusitanian mythology, in the cultural area of Gallaecia and Lusitania ( in the territory of modern Galicia ( Spain ) and Portugal ).

* God of War – Ares

The Spartans prepare to go to war, and an unnamed Spartan is contacted by Ares, the God of War, who offers aid in the war against Rome and to help the Spartan uncover who he is.

* Ares: The God of War and the Spartan's protector and guide.

Two young warriors are given the Wings of Love and Courage by the God of War Ares in order to destroy Dark and ensure mankind's survival.

Notable queens of the Amazons are Penthesilea, who participated in the Trojan War, and her sister Hippolyta, whose magical girdle, given to her by her father Ares, was the object of one of the labours of Hercules.

His value as a war god is even placed in doubt: during the Trojan War, Ares was on the losing side, while Athena, often depicted in Greek art as holding Nike ( Victory ) in her hand, favored the triumphant Greeks.

According to the Iliad, during the Trojan War, Diomedes fought Hector and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans ' side.

The first is an otherwise obscure incident of the Trojan War, the " Quarrel of Odysseus and Achilles "; the second is the amusing tale of a love affair between two Olympian gods, Ares and Aphrodite.

* The Trojan War tapestry referred to by Homer in Book III of the Iliad, where Iris disguises herself as Laodice and finds Helen " working at a great web of purple linen, on which she was embroidering the battles between Trojans and Achaeans, that Ares had made them fight for her sake.

In the Iliad Zeus, Aphrodite, Ares and Apollo support the Trojan side in the Trojan War, while Hera, Athena and Poseidon support the Greeks ( see theomachy ).

SPI started out publishing games on historical subjects, but soon started producing games that were more hypothetical ( e. g. World War III, Invasion: America ), and a little later, also tackled fantasy and science fiction subjects, such as Starforce: Alpha Centauri and War of the Ring ( a Lord of the Rings game ), eventually starting a new magazine, Ares which, like S & T, included a new science fiction or fantasy game in each issue.

* Weird War Tales # 1: " Ares " ( with James Romberger, 1997 )

During the Chaos War storyline, Zeus, Hera, and Ares are among the dead characters that Pluto releases in order to help defend the underworld from Amatsu-Mikaboshi.

War gods were, like the rulers of the pantheon, typically male, too ; Ares / Mars and Toutatis are obvious examples.

The Swordsman also featured in Chaos War # 2 & 4-5 ( 2010 – 2011 ) and Chaos War: Ares # 1 ( 2010 ).

According to Ares in his War Plan for the Siege of Asgard, Heimdall can " see and hear as far as creation ", even capable of seeing the Dark Avengers at Avengers Tower from Broxton.

From later accounts, it is believed that these kings stood at the head of a land-owning aristocracy known as the Eupatridae ( the ' well-born '), whose instrument of government was a Council which met on the Hill of Ares, called the Areopagus and appointed the chief city officials, the archons and the polemarch ( commander-in-chief ).

When the robber band is about to sacrifice Anthia to the god Ares, a body of troops, led by Perilaos, the chief law enforcement official in Cilicia, suddenly appears.

The birds of Ares ( Ornithes Areioi ) were a flock of feather-dart-dropping birds that guarded the Amazons ' shrine of the god on a coastal island in the Black Sea.

In Greek mythology, Otrera ( Greek: Οτρηρη Otrērē ) was a Queen of the Amazons ; the daughter of Eurus ( the east wind ), consort of Ares and mother of Hippolyta, Antiope, Melanippe and Penthesilea.

Heracles, as one of his Twelve Labors, was obliged by her father to fetch for her the girdle of Ares, which was worn by Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons.

The Bibliotheca relates that he was a son of Androgeus ( the son of Minos and Pasiphaë ) and brother of Sthenelus, and that when Heracles, on his expedition to fetch the girdle of Ares, which was in the possession of the queen of the Amazons, arrived at Paros, some of his companions were slain by the sons of Minos.

It's this familial link that led to the god Ares to manipulate Steve into bombing Themyscira to eliminate the Amazons.

Eurystheus ' daughter Admete wanted the belt of Hippolyta, a gift to the queen of the Amazons from the war god Ares.

* Many science-fiction movies and serials of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Space Ship Sappy, Queen of Outer Space ( with Zsa Zsa Gabor ), and Space Patrol, have used the concept of the namesake goddess Venus and her domain to contrive planetary populations of nubile Amazonian women welcoming ( or attacking ) all-male astronaut crews ( even though the goddess Venus-or Aphrodite for that matter-had absolutely nothing to do with the Amazons ; that role belonged to Ares, or to Artemis ).

According to legend, the island was sacred to the Amazons, who had dedicated a temple to the war god Ares here.

In Greek mythology, Antiope () was an Amazon, daughter of Ares and sister to Melanippe and Hippolyte and possibly Orithyia, queens of the Amazons ,.

Soon after, the Amazons attacked Athens in an attempt to rescue Antiope and to take back Hippolyte's girdle ; however, in a battle near the hill of Ares they were defeated.

Deimos and his brother Phobos are the main antagonists in Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot, in which they try to discredit their half sister, Clarisse La Rue, in the eyes of their father, Ares.

NASA has estimated that the Constellation program would cost over $ 97 billion ( in 2008 dollars ) through 2020, half of which would be for Ares I and Orion.

* The Temple of Ares, dedicated to Ares, the god of war, was added in the north half agora, just south of the Altar of the Twelve Gods.

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.

He is the twin brother of Phobos and the goddess Enyo who accompanied Ares into battle, as well as his father's attendants, Trembling, Fear, Dread and Panic.

According to one account, she is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite ; By yet another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic rites celebrated on the island.