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  2. Ares - Wikipedia

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    Gods were immortal but could be bound and restrained, both in mythic narrative and in cult practice. There was an archaic Spartan statue of Ares in chains in the temple of Enyalios (sometimes regarded as the son of Ares, sometimes as Ares himself), which Pausanias claimed meant that the spirit of war and victory was to be kept in the city.

  3. Chainfire - Wikipedia

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    Richard Rahl is the ruler of the D'Haran Empire, a collection of nations previously made up of D'Hara and the Midlands. Richard Rahl and the D'Haran Empire are currently locked in an epic struggle with the Imperial Order, an Empire from the Old World, led by Emperor Jagang.

  4. Ares Borghese - Wikipedia

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    The Ares Borghese in the Louvre (Ma 866) The Ares Borghese is a Roman marble statue of the imperial era (1st or 2nd century AD). It is 2.11 metres (6 ft 11 in) high. Though the statue is referred to as Ares, this identification is not entirely certain. This statue possibly preserves some features of an original work in bronze, now lost, of the ...

  5. List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan

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    Percy first encounters Ares in The Lightning Thief, in which he drives a black Harley-Davidson motorcycle with flame decals and a leather seat made from human skin. Percy defeats Ares in a sword fight near the climax of the book. Before fleeing in his divine form, Ares curses Riptide to fail Percy when he needs it the most.

  6. Ares in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Ares is a character in both DC Comics and Marvel Comics. Ares is a side character in the webcomic Lore Olympus, making his first appearance in episode 82. Ares is a major antagonist in the webcomic Athena Complex. Ares is the name given to the second spaceship to land on the planet Mars, in Patrick Moore's science fiction novel Mission to Mars.

  7. Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius - Wikipedia

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    Detail. Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini created c. 1618 –19. Housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, the sculpture depicts a scene from the Aeneid, where the hero Aeneas leads his family from burning Troy.

  8. Temple of Ares - Wikipedia

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    A modified copy of the statue (with a head from a different prototype) is known from the Temple of Al-Lat at Palmyra. [122] The statue would originally have been around 2.3 metres tall, including her helmet and dates to ca. 435-430 BC. She wore a long chiton, knotted at her waist.

  9. Ludovisi Ares - Wikipedia

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    The Ludovisi Ares. The sculpture was a sensational find. A small-scale bronze replica of it was executed by G.F. Susini, heir and assistant to his more famous uncle Antonio Susini, when he visited Rome in the 1630s and copied several marbles from Ludovisi's collection; a bronze of the Ludovisi Ares is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.