Hephaestus is one of the most even-tempered of the Hellenic deities ; in the narrative embedded in the Odyssey Aphrodite seems to prefer Ares, the volatile god of war, as she was attracted to his violent nature.

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.

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.

Her son only venerated Ares and was fully devoted to war, neglecting love and marriage.

Ares (, Μodern Greek: Άρης ) was the Greek god of war.

The Greeks were ambivalent toward Ares: although he embodied the physical valor necessary for success in war, he was a dangerous force, " overwhelming, insatiable in battle, destructive, and man-slaughtering.

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.

Thrace was Ares ' birthplace, true home, and refuge after the affair with Aphrodite was exposed to the general mockery of the other gods.

In Sparta, Ares was viewed as a masculine soldier in which his resilience, physical strength and military intelligence was unrivaled.

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.

The temple to Ares in the agora of Athens that Pausanias saw in the second century AD had only been moved and rededicated there during the time of Augustus ; in essence it was a Roman temple to the Augustan Mars Ultor.

The Areopagus, the " mount of Ares " where Paul of Tarsus preached, is sited at some distance from the Acropolis ; from archaic times it was a site of trials.

Enyalius, rather than another name for Ares, in at least one tradition was his son by Enyo.

One of the roles of Ares that was sited in mainland Greece itself was in the founding myth of Thebes: Ares was the progenitor of the water-dragon slain by Cadmus, for the dragon's teeth were sown into the ground as if a crop and sprung up as the fully armored autochthonic Spartoi.

Stay and mourn at the tomb of dead KroisosWhom raging Ares destroyed one day, fighting in the foremost ranks.

Ares, upon one occasion, incurred the anger of Poseidon by slaying his son Halirrhothius, who had raped Alcippe, another daughter of the war-god.

* Deimos ( mythology ), one of the sons of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology

** In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " One Small Step ", USS Voyager discovers the fate of Ares IV, one of the first manned expeditions to Mars in 2032.

When Pausanias visited the city of Triteia in the second century CE, he was told that the name of the city was derived from an eponymous Triteia, a daughter of Triton, and that it claimed to have been founded by her son ( with Ares ), one among several mythic heroes named Melanippus (" Black Horse ").

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.

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.

In Greek mythology, Parthenopeus ( or Parthenopaeus ; English translation: " son of a pierced virgin ") was one of the Seven Against Thebes and the son of Atalanta and Hippomenes, Meleager, or Ares, or perhaps the son of Talaus.

In Greek mythology, Marpessa (, ‘ the robbed one ’) was an Aetolian princess, and a granddaughter of Ares.

In Greek mythology, King Oenomaus ( or Oinomaos, Oenamaus ) of Pisa, the father of Hippodamia, was the son of Ares, either by the naiad Harpina ( daughter of the river god Phliasian Asopus, the armed ( harpe ) spirit of a spring near Pisa ) or by Sterope, one of the Pleiades, whom some identify as his consort instead.

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.

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.

In Greek mythology, Thrax ( by his name simply the quintessential Thracian ) was regarded as one of the reputed sons of the god Ares.

In the Alcestis, Euripides mentions that one of the names of Ares himself was Thrax since he was regarded as the patron of Thrace ( his golden or gilded shield was kept in his temple at Bistonia in Thrace ).

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

The Ares network was, at one time, largely free from fake and corrupt files, unlike others like FastTrack.

She is a skilled warrior, at one moment even receiving training from Ares.

NASA began developing the Ares I low Earth orbit launch vehicle ( analogous to Apollo's Saturn IB ), returning to a development philosophy used for the original Saturn I, test-launching one stage at a time, which George Mueller abandoned in favor of " all-up " testing for the Saturn V. As of May 2010, the program got as far as launching the first Ares I-X first-stage flight on October 28, 2009 and testing the Orion launch abort system.

" Regarding any risk associated with Ares I, Admiral Dyer notes, " If the goal is to minimize the gap between the Shuttle and the follow-on, the Ares I offers the safest, quickest opportunity and probably the most cost-effective one.

* 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.

At Kos, Heracles and Dionysus are added to the Twelve, and Ares and Hephaestus are not.

The main Greek gods were the twelve Olympians, Zeus, his wife Hera, Poseidon, Ares, Hermes, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Demeter, and Hades.

According to another version of their struggle against the Olympians, alluded to so briefly that it must have been already familiar to the epic's hearers, they managed to kidnap Ares and hold him in a bronze jar, a storage pithos, for thirteen months, a lunar year.

Others required more expansive theological and poetic efforts: though both Ares and Mars are war gods, Ares was a relatively minor figure in Greek religious practice and deprecated by the poets, while Mars was a father of the Roman people and a central figure of archaic Roman religion.

Ares plays a relatively limited role in Greek mythology as represented in literary narratives, though his numerous love affairs and abundant offspring are often alluded to.

Apollonius Rhodius represented Eros as a child of Aphrodite ( Argonautica 3. 25 – 6 ) and there is a relevant scholium on that passage too, according to which Sappho made Eros the son of Earth and Heaven, Simonides made him the son of Aphrodite and Ares, and Ibycus made him the son of ...?

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.

Others are not: Ares, for example, is represented only as " Enyalios " which was retained as an epithet.

Works after Scopas are preserved in the British Museum ( reliefs ) in London ; fragments from the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens ; the celebrated Ludovisi Ares in the Palazzo Altemps, Rome ; a statue of Pothos restored as Apollo Citharoedus in the Capitoline Museum, Rome ; and a statue of Meleager, unmentioned in ancient literature but surviving in numerous replicas, perhaps best represented by a torso in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.