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Plutarch makes reference to a shrine to Phobos at Sparta, in addition to shrines dedicated to Death and Laughter , and he claimed that the Spartans honoured fear as a positive force that held the state together. [12] Pausanias, writing during Imperial Rome, noted that the temple dedicated to Phobos was located outside of the city.
The etymology of the name Ares is traditionally connected with the Greek word ἀρή (arē), the Ionic form of the Doric ἀρά (ara), "bane, ruin, curse, imprecation". [1] Walter Burkert notes that "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war." [2] R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a Pre-Greek origin of the name. [3]
An aretalogy (Greek: Αρεταλογία), from ἀρετή (aretḗ, “virtue”) + -logy,or aretology [1] [2] (from ancient Greek aretê, "excellence, virtue") in the strictest sense is a narrative about a divine figure's miraculous deeds [3] where a deity's attributes are listed, in the form of poem or text, in the first person.
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Ares (rocket), various proposed and existing launch vehicles and missiles Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System, a DARPA concept for a robotic VTOL vehicle; Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey, a robotic spacecraft proposed to fly in the Martian atmosphere
A Roman copy of a statue of Aphrodite Areia found in Epidaurus, with the original created by the Polykleitos school.. Aphrodite Areia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία) or "Aphrodite the Warlike" was a cult epithet of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, in which she was depicted in full armor like the war god Ares. [1]