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Ares in Wikipedia

Ares (Ancient Greek: Ἄρης /árɛːs/, Μodern Greek: Άρης /ˈaris/) is the god of war, and a member of the Twelve Olympians, a son of Zeus and Hera, in Greek mythology. 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...

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Ares in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

（Ἄρης), the god of war and one of the great Olympian gods of the Greeks. He is represented as the son of Zeus and Hera. (Hom. Il. 5.893, &c.; Hes. Th. 921; Apollod. 1.3.1.) A later tradition, according to which Hera conceived Ares by touching a certain flower, appears to be an imitation of the legend about the birth of Hephaestus, and is r...

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