Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka #Tyrsday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"You must know victory-runes
if you want to know victory. Carve them
into your sword's hilt, on the blade guards
and the blades, invoking Tyr's name twice."
Poetic Edda, Sigrdrรญfumรกl

๐Ÿ› Gold bracteate from Trollhรคttan, #Sweden

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

The #NewYear is barely a week old and shows already that Ares will be busy. Let's not forget he is also the god of riots and rebellion:

"Ares . . . ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious."
Homeric Hymn 8 to Ares

๐Ÿ› #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear ๐Ÿพ

"The Amazones of the Doiantian plain were by no means gentle, well-conducted folk; they were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war. War, indeed, was in their blood, daughters of Ares as they were."
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.989

๐Ÿ› Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said โ€˜This one is heavy : try it and you will see.โ€™ Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28

๐Ÿ› Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"Ares went with the Trojans. Who then was the first and who the last that they slaughtered, Hektor, Priamos' son, and Ares armed with brass?"
Homer, Iliad 5.699

๐Ÿ› Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: โ€˜Why once more, you dogfly, have you stirred up trouble among the gods with the blast of your blown fury, and the pride of your heart driving you?โ€™"
Homer, Iliad 21.391

๐Ÿ› Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE

๐Ÿ“ธ La Fuente Egeria
https://www.flickriver.com/photos/27906589@N05/4887957422/

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"Sisyphos bound Thanatos (Death) fast, so that men ceased to die, until Ares came to the rescue, released Thanatos, and gave Sisyphos into his power."
Aeschylus, Sisyphus the Runaway (lost play)

๐Ÿ› Red-figure vase painting

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385

๐Ÿ› #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"Sokrates: 'Ares, then, if you like, would be named for his virility and courage, or for his hard and unbending nature, which is called arraton; so Ares would be in every way a fitting name for the god of war.'"
Plato, Cratylus 400d

๐Ÿ› Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE

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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐Ÿ—ก๏ธ

"โ€˜Should we not address a prayer to Comrade #Mars [...] Appoint 10 representatives to accompany me; that will suffice to attack the nearest village and enable me to bring back a meal fit for Salian priests.โ€™
So he set out; the rest laid a huge fire and set up an altar to Mars on the green turf."
Apuleius, The Golden Ass 7.10

๐Ÿ› Roman sandstone statue of #Mars, 4th century, Yorkshire Museum

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