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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-23 07:43:38
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The equestrian contest with two-horse cars was invented by Enyalios [Ares], as Kallimachos has written in the Aitia."
Callimachus, Aetia Fragment 2
🏛 Silver libation bowl with low-relief of chariots with Ares, Athena, Herakles and Dionysos, Greek, from Northern Apulia, 300-200 BCE
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This libation bowl (phiale) has a round boss in the center surrounded by beautiful repoussé decoration of lotus and acanthus and chariots driven by winged Victories; each of the four-horsed chariots has a divine passenger--Herakles, Athena, Hermes, Dionysus, and Ares.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-16 07:30:16
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"The gifts of Ares are swords and brazen tunics to array the limbs and helmets and spears and whatsoever things Enyo delights in."
Oppian, Halieutica 2.24
🏛 Gem Engraved with Ares or Mars, ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE
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Sardonyx gem engraved with Ares or Mars standing, fully armed with spear and shield.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-09-09 13:00:59
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"If, then, you hear that men are dying or wounded, do not seize on the news with loud wailing. For this is the food of Ares [War], human blood."
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 242
🏛 Mars, Roman bronze statuette, 1st-3rd century CE
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Ancient Roman bronze statuette of Mars, the god of warfare, with a nice olive green patina. He is in full armour with a crested helmet and used to carry a spear in his right.