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@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.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-10-08 00:39:54
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
Stesichorus, Fragment 575
🏛 #Mars restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire
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Neoclassical sculpture goup of Mars and Amor. Ares is in the nude, only wearing his crested helmet and a cloak draped over his left shoulder. Amor has taken his left arm and Mars is looking at him.
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-04 08:37:37
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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)
🏛 Red-figure vase painting
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Red-figure vase painting of Persephone overseeing Sisyphos and probably Ares leaving.
@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
2025-10-21 08:54:46
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"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
🏛 Roman bronze statuette, 2nd century CE
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Roman bronze statuette of the god Mars. He is depicted in full armour, a helmet on his head and a sword carried below his left arm. A shield seems to have been placed in front of him, held up by his left hand, now lost. A spear likely used to be in his right, also lost.
@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
2025-10-29 00:45:06
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Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️
"Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him."
Homer, Iliad 5. 385
🏛 #Hermes and Ares, 300-200 BCE, limestone relief from Tarentum, Italy, Cleveland Museum of Art
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This carved limestone relief was likely part of a larger frieze that decorated a naiskos, or small temple, above a grave. The relief depicts two warriors striding to the right, one wearing a broad traveller's hat called a petasos and the other a Corinthian helmet. Each wears a short cloak called a chlamys over his left arm (now missing on the righthand warrior). The left warrior looks back, perhaps toward a horseman, since a small fragment of a horse’s foreleg remains behind his knee. The stron…