Zeus, the Supreme Lord of Olympus became married to the goddess Hera.
The goddess was extremely jealous of the love
Zeus felt for his preferred daughter, the goddess Athena.
The greatest ambition of Hera was to conceive
a strong, beautiful and powerful son who could one day
replace his father, like an old prophecy had written.
The desire of the queen of the skies was heard,
and she soon gave birth to a beautiful child who was named Ares.
The little God grew and became increasingly stronger.
But from an early age, the signs of his wrath
and brutality were already perceptible.
As an adult already, he is offered a stunning armor and a golden helmet.
He was the model of a perfect warrior.
Now Ares was the God of War.
His strive for conflict and blood horrified the other gods.
Due to his violent and uncontrollable nature,
Some gods even feared him,
and so he had a bad reputation among the deities.
During the clashes between men, he was delighted by the slaughter.
he did not support one side of a quarrel
just because they happened to be the fairest,
the most honored or the bravest.
He tended to be fond of those who were the most violent and brutal.
But he also used to help those
who honored him with proper tributes and devotions.
Zeus once said, "For me, he is the most despicable of the gods who inhabit Olympus,
since he solely adores contention, war, and fights."
Zeus hated him so much that he even said that
Ares would certainly be expelled from Olympus
if he wasn't the son of Hera.
However, Ares also had divine followers.
Among them was Eris, the goddess of discord
who with her ominous powers sowed all sorts
of disagreements and quarrel between men.
The goddess carried with her
the children of Limos, the goddess of starvation,
Algos, the goddess of pain, Ponos, the goddess of toil,
and Lethe, the goddess of oblivion who made men forget
the presence of gods right after the clashes.
After the passage of Ares and his procession,
Keres appeared, the divinities of violent death.
These drank the blood of those who died in battlefields
and drag those who deserved it directly to Tartarus.
Athena, the goddess of strategic war
was the only one who strongly opposed the bloodthirsty god.
Defeating the god several times, however,
not even she was capable of detaining the gods quest for blood.