Ares

Family: gods · Role: god · First appears: Book II 4

Life events

• Cadmus slays the spring’s dragon, guided by Apollo, then sows its teeth and Ares reaps the survivors.(Book III 9 · 📍 Ogygian Thebes)
  • With: Cadmus Apollo
  • “Cadmus found in Ogygian Thebes when he came seeking for Europa and there slew the—warder of the spring of Ares.”

Book II 4

• with Otrere (Otrere built a temple dedicated to Ares.) “the Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a stone temple of Ares”
• with Antiope (Antiope built a temple dedicated to Ares.) “the Queens of the Amazons, Otrere and Antiope, built a stone temple of Ares”

Book II 8

• child: Melanippe “when Melanippe, daughter of Ares, had, gone forth”
• married with Harmonia “the daughters of Ares and the nymph Harmonia, who bare to Ares war-loving maids, wedded to him in the glens of the Acmonian wood”

Book III 9

• protégé: Aeetes “Then Aeetes arrayed his breast in the stiff corslet which Ares gave him when he had slain Phlegraean Mimas with his own hands;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.