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The union of Ares and Aphrodite created the gods Eros, Anteros, Phobos, Deimos, and Harmonia. Other versions include Alcippe as one of his daughters. Cycnus (Κύκνος) of Macedonia was a son of Ares who tried to build a temple to his father with the skulls and bones of guests and travellers. Heracles fought him and, in one account, killed ...
Phobos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Deimos. He does not have a major role in mythology outside of being his father's attendant. [2] In Classical Greek mythology, Phobos exists as both the god of and personification of the fear brought by war. [3]
The following is a family tree of gods, ... Aphrodite [b] the Hecatonchires: the Cyclopes: ... Ares: Amphitrite: the Hyades: the Pleiades: Epaphus: Dione:
Fragment of a Hellenistic relief (1st century BC–1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff ...
Two roosters on an ancient Greek black-figure vase from Villa Giulia.. Alectryon (from Ancient Greek: ἀλεκτρυών, Alektruṓn pronounced [alektryɔ̌ːn], literally meaning "rooster") in Greek mythology, was a young soldier who was assigned by Ares, the god of war, to guard the outside of his bedroom door while the god took part in a love affair with the love goddess Aphrodite.
In Greek mythology, Hermaphroditus (/ h ər ˌ m æ f r ə ˈ d aɪ t ə s / ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμαφρόδῑτος, romanized: Hermaphróditos, [hermapʰródi:tos]) was a child of Aphrodite and Hermes. According to Ovid, he was born a remarkably beautiful boy whom the naiad Salmacis attempted to rape and prayed to be united with forever.
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]
In later myths, he was the son of the deities Aphrodite and Ares: it is the Eros of these later myths who is one of the erotes. Eros was depicted as often carrying a lyre or bow and arrow. He was also depicted accompanied by dolphins, flutes, roosters, roses, and torches. [23] [verification needed] [Hera addresses Athena:]