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Ares

Ares. With Pallas Athena, protectress of cities, my song begins, With that fearsome goddess who cares with Ares for warlike works – The sacking of cities, the scream of battle, the clash of the fray – And also ensures the army’s safe parting and homeward return.

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Ares

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  1. Ares

  2. With Pallas Athena, protectress of cities, my song begins, With that fearsome goddess who cares with Ares for warlike works – The sacking of cities, the scream of battle, the clash of the fray – And also ensures the army’s safe parting and homeward return. Farewell to you, goddess! Grant us success and prosperous life. Homeric Hymn 11 to Athena

  3. And Athene, daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis, let slip to the floor of her father’s house her soft embroidered robe, which she herself had made and worked with her hands. And she put on Zeus the cloud-gatherer’s own tunic in its place, then dressed in her armour for the misery of war. Round her shoulders she hung the tasselled aegis, a fearful weapon, set with Panic all round it in a circle: and on it there is Strife, and Power, and chilling Rout, and set there too is the head of the fearful monster Gorgon, a thing of fright and terror, a potent sign from Zeus who holds the aegis. And on her head she placed a golden helmet, set round with horns, four-bossed, and decorated with a hundred cities’ men-at-arms. She stepped into her flaming chariot, and took up her spear, the huge heavy, massive spear with which she brings low the ranks of men, the heroes who stir the mighty-fathered goddess into anger. Iliad Book 5

  4. With Pallas Athena, that glorious goddess, my song begins, Who is bright-eyed, rich in craft, who has an implacable heart, The virgin revered, protectress of cities, possessor of strength, Tritogenes. It was Craft-filled Zeus himself who gave birth From his sacred head to her already in armour of war, Golden, all-gleaming; every immortal was gripped with awe At the sight. But quickly she leaped from his deathless head to stand Before Zeus who bears the aegis, and brandished her keen-tipped spear. At the might of the bright-eyed goddess great Olympos reeled In a fearsome tremor, the earth all round with a dreadful scream Rang out, and the deep was stirred in a mass of seething waves. But the salt sea suddenly checked, and Hyperion’s splendid son For a long-drawn moment kept still the swift hoofs of his chariot’s team, Until from her deathless shoulders Pallas Athena took off That armour fit for a god, and Craft-filled Zeus rejoiced. And so farewell to you, child of aegis-bearing Zeus; But I will call to mind both you and another song.Homeric Hymn 28 to Athena

  5. Athena….For not pleasing to her are golden Aphrodite’s works, But what is pleasing to her are wars and Ares’ work, Combats and battles, and being busy with splendid works – She was the first who taught the craftsmen on earth to make carts And chariots gleaming with bronze, and she taught her splendid works To the soft-skinned maidens in halls, inspiring each one’s mind.Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite lines 7ff.

  6. Athena - Armed Ishtar Near Eastern myth - Enlil and the Pickaxe

  7. Athena becomes angry with Arachne because her skill at wool-making matched that of Athena herself and was praised as being better than Athena. Arachne proposes a competition with Athena. (note motif of competition with the gods). Pallas disguises herself as a crone: puts on a wig of counterfeit grey hair and, with a staff to prop her tottering limbs, begins to speak: “Old age is not to be wholly despised, for with it wisdom comes. Heed my advice: seek all the fame you wish as best of mortal weavers, but admit the goddess as your superior in skill; beg her to pardon you for your presumption in an appropriately humble manner-forgiveness will be given, if you ask it.” Aracnhe drops the work she had begun, and scarcely able to restrain her hand, expresses outrage through her glaring eyes, cutting the goddess short with these sharp words: ‘You’ve lived too long, you senile nincompoop, that what your trouble is! Try telling that to your own daughter or your daughter in law, if you have any children; as for me, I’ll take my own advice, thanks very much. Ovid Melville, pp.121-125 Ovid Martin, pp.189-195.

  8. Ares(Mars)

  9. Do not sit beside me and complain, you two-faced rogue. Of all the gods who dwell on Olympus you are the most hateful to me, for strife and wars and battles are always dear to you… Still I shall not endure any longer that you be in pain, for you are ofm y blood and your mother bore you to me. But if you were born of some other of the gods, since youa re so destructive you would have long since been thrown out of Olympus. (Iliad, Book 5. 889ff.) See M&L 128-30.

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