Ares greek god biography books

Synopsis

*Includes pictures
*Includes ancient myths and accounts of Ares and cults that worshiped him
*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading
Ares, the God of War and personification of all that is reactionary and violent, is remembered today as the hated, unshakeable, and infallible embodiment of the violence prevalent in war and society at large, but surviving evidence suggests that this may not have always been the case.

To understand that, it&#x;s necessary to remember that Greek mythology has been filtered and tempered by centuries of editors and zealots and fickle word of mouth. The stories that arrive in the beloved mythology books of today were not necessarily those read and told by the ancients. This is true not only thanks to later mythographers&#x; overeager shears, wielded in order to strip the ancient Greek myths of much of their heathenism, but also because ove