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标 题: Mars, the War-God
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Mars, the War-God
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Mars (Ares) was the son of Jupiter and Juno. Homer in the Iliad, represents?
Ares as the insatiable warrior of the heroic age, who, impelled by rage and
lust of violence, exults in the noise of battle, revels in the horror of car
nage. Strife and slaughter are the condition of his existence. Where the fig
ht is thickest, there he rushes in without hesitation, without question as t
o which side is right. In battle array he is resplendent, - on his head the
gleaming helmet and floating plume, on his are the leather shield, in his ha
d the redoubtable spear of bronze. Well-favored, stately, swift, unwearied,
puissant, gigantic, he is still the foe of wisdom, the scourge of mortals. U
sually he fights on foot, sometimes from a chariot drawn by four horses, --
the offspring of the North Wind and a Fury. In the fray his sons attend him,
-- Terror, Trembling, Panic, and Fear, -- also his sister Eris, or Discord
(the mother of Strife), his daughter Enyo, ruiner of cities, and a retinue o
f bloodthirsty demons. As typifying the chances of war, Mars is , of course,
not always successful. In the battles. before Troy, Minerva and Juno bring
him more than once to grief; and when he complains to Jupiter, he is snubbed
as a renegade most hateful of all the gods. His loved one and mistress is t
he goddess of beauty herself. In her arms the warrior finds repose. Their da
ughter Harmonia is the ancestress of the unquiet dynasty of Thebes. The favo
rite land of Mars was, according to Home, the rough, northerly Thrace. His e
mblems are the spear and the burning torch; his chosen animals are haunters
of the battle field, -- the vulture and the dog.
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