ARES

KEY TEST WORDS: (Know the material behind these items.)
Ares, Mars, ancile, spear, vulture, dog, burning torch, Aphrodite, Hephaestus

FOOTNOTES:
Otus and Ephialtes, twin giant sons of Poseidon, bound Ares, stuffed him into a bronze jar, and left him there for thirteen months. Hermes rescued him. Hercules felled Ares four times in the battle for the city of Pylus. Diomedes, a Greek warrior during the Trojan War, urged on by Athena, wounded Ares severely. Ares later took on Athena as an opponent and was flattened with a huge stone.

In works of art Ares is represented as a youthful but very powerful build, armed with helmet, shield, and spear. At other times he is bearded and heavily armed.

SOURCES:
Image by Mike Ginter