Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka #Tyrsday ๐ก๏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
๐ Gold bracteate from Trollhรคttan, #Sweden
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏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
๐ #Mars Statuette, Roman Bronze
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏ธ
Ares steers his chariot towards a #NewYear ๐พ
"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
๐ Ares and Amazon, detail, Apulian volute krater, 5th century BCE
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏ธ
"One day Ares came in from the battlefield brandishing a strong spear and began to make fun of Eros' weapon. Eros said โThis one is heavy : try it and you will see.โ Ares took the javelin, while Kypris [Aphrodite] smiled quietly."
The Anacreontea, Fragment 28
๐ Ares and #Aphrodite, 3rd century Roman #mosaic from Philipopolis, modern Shahba, #Syria
#DayOfAres #GreekRomanArt #mythology #Ares #history #antiquidons #MosaicMonday
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏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
๐ Ares marble bust after the Greek original by Alkamenes ca. 420s BCE
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏ธ
"Ares, the shield-stabber, rose up against Athene with the brazen spear in his hand, and spoke a word of revilement: โWhy 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
๐ Black-figure vase painting of the Birth of Athena, 540 BCE
๐ธ La Fuente Egeria
https://www.flickriver.com/photos/27906589@N05/4887957422/
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏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)
๐ Red-figure vase painting
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏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
๐ #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏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
๐ Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE
Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday ๐ก๏ธ
"โShould 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
๐ Roman sandstone statue of #Mars, 4th century, Yorkshire Museum
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