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.

Ares, the God of War and a chief opponent of the Amazons, manipulates his half brother Heracles to gather forces and attack Themyscira.

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.

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.

The counterpart of Ares among the Roman gods is Mars, who as a father of the Roman people held a more important and dignified place in ancient Roman religion for his agricultural and tutelary functions.

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.

In yet another version, Adonis was not killed by Artemis, but by Ares, as punishment for being with Aphrodite.

Hera, Ares ' mother, saw Ares ' interference and asked Zeus, Ares ' father, for permission to drive Ares away from the battlefield.

They asked Zeus to judge which of them was fairest, and eventually he, reluctant to favour any claim himself, declared that Paris, a Trojan mortal, would judge their cases, for he had recently shown his exemplary fairness in a contest in which Ares in bull form had bested Paris's own prize bull, and the shepherd-prince had unhesitatingly awarded the prize to the god.

The Mars Direct proposal includes a component for a Launch Vehicle " Ares ", an Earth Return Vehicle ( ERV ) and a Mars Habitat Unit ( MHU ).

This proposed rocket is dubbed " Ares ", which would utilize space shuttle Advanced Solid Rocket Boosters, a modified shuttle external tank, and a new Lox / LH2 third stage for the trans-Mars injection of the payload.

* 2009 – NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.

Much of Ares ' relationship with Xena remains ambiguous, including whether he is at least partly redeemed by his love for Xena, or is in fact her father, or to what extent Xena reciprocates his feelings.

Likewise, Xena is suggested to have strong feelings for Ares, but over the course of the series, never pursued them.

To escape the gods ' persecution, Xena and Gabrielle fake their deaths, but their plan goes awry when Ares buries them in an ice cave where they sleep for 25 years ; during that time, Eve is adopted by the Roman nobleman Octavius and grows up to become Livia, the Champion of Rome, and a ruthless persecutor of Eli's followers.

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 organisation is mission center for several key current missions ( Kepler Mission, the Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS ) mission, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ( SOFIA )) and a major contributor to the '" new exploration focus '" as a participant in the Orion crew exploration vehicle and Ares I crew launch vehicle projects.

It provides software expertise for Aeronautics, Space Science Missions, Space Shuttle, International Space Station, and the new crewed Exploration Missions ( CEV, and Ares ).

For instance, while the Greek god Ares and the Italic god Mars are both war deities, the role of each in his society and its religious practices differed often strikingly ; but in literature and Roman art, the Romans reinterpreted stories about Ares under the name of Mars.