Ares
Family: Olympians · Role: father of Cycnus · First appears: The Shield of Heracles · Part 1
In The Shield of Heracles, Ares is named as Cycnus’s father: “And he slew Cycnus, the gallant son of Ares.” In The Aethiopis, Penthesileia is described as “the daughter of Ares and of Thracian race,” coming to aid the Trojans. Homeric Hymn VIII calls him “father of warlike Victory” and an “ally of Themis.”
In Part 3 of The Shield of Heracles, Ares attacked Heracles, but Athena deflected his spear. Heracles wounded him in the thigh and cast him to the ground; Panic and Dread then carried the wounded Ares in his chariot to high Olympus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Athene deflected Ares’s spear as he attacked Heracles.(The Shield of Heracles · Part 3)
- Heracles wounded Ares in the thigh and cast him to the ground.(The Shield of Heracles · Part 3)
- With: Heracles
- “shrewdly wounded his thigh where it was exposed under his richly-wrought shield, and tare deep into his flesh with the spear-thrust and cast him flat upon the ground.”
- Panic and Dread carried the wounded Ares away in his chariot to Olympus.(The Shield of Heracles · Part 3 · 📍 high Olympus)
- “And Panic and Dread quickly drove his smooth-wheeled chariot and horses near him and lifted him from the wide-pathed earth into his richly-wrought car, and then straight lashed the horses and came to high Olympus.”
The Shield of Heracles · Part 1
- child: Cycnus son of Ares “And he slew Cycnus, the gallant son of Ares.”
The Shield of Heracles · Part 3
- child: Cycnus son of Ares “because of his dead son”
Homeric Hymn VIII · To Ares
The Aethiopis
- child: Penthesileia “The Amazon Penthesileia, the daughter of Ares and of Thracian race, comes to aid the Trojans”
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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.