#ares – @didoofcarthage on Tumblr

Many things pierce a woman's heart: in place of the man she sent out she knows she'll get back a handful of ash. Ares who exchanges bodies for gold, Ares who holds the scales of war, sends home to the wife the dust of her man packed into an easy little urn.

Chorus from Agamemnon by Aiskhylos (translated by Anne Carson)

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Frieze of the Parthenon Temple.

The gods from left to right: Ares, Hera, and Zeus.

Located at the British Museum. (x)

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The head of Ares/Mars. Roman copy (early 3rd cent. CE) after a lost bronze original by the Greek sculptor Alcamenes (ca. 420 BCE). Now in the Capitoline Museum.

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Ὀγδόη Φθίνοντος/ Ὀγδόη μετ’εἰκάδας, XXIII day From today’s sunset: twenty-third day of Mounychion. Since for today there are no religious prescriptions, apart from the daily ones, we honor only Lord Ares in His sacred day. (Ares and the Dioscuroi attacking the Titans; 400 BCE circa; Athens, National Archaeological Museum)

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“Ludovisi Ares”. Pentelic marble, Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 320 BC.

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Ares, the Greek God of War

Marble; Roman work; Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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Marble head of Mars (Ares)

Ares is the Greek god of war, Mars is his roman counterpart. Head is 44cm high (17 5/16 inch.) The marble is from Dokimeion in west-central Asia Minor (modern Afyon).

Date and location of find are unknown.

Roman, Imperial Period, 135 AD

Source: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Ludovisi Ares, Roman after the Greek original from ca. 320 BC. Some restorations were made to the sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini in 1622.

This remarkable sculpture was rediscovered in 1622, on the site which was once apparently the temple of Mars, of which very few traces remain today. It was recovered near the more distinguishable site of the church of San Salvatore in Campo, which Pietro Santi Bartoli recorded as been found during the digging of a drain.

Ares/ Mars is shown here as young and beardless, in a moment of repose, with Eros who is actually at his feet. Having Eros at his feet draws attention to the fact that the god of war is being interestingly presented as a love object. It is likely, however, that the addition of Eros was invented by Baroque sculptor Bernini.

This piece was far more famous in the 17th and 18th centuries than today, and many copies were commissioned by wealthy art collectors.

Courtesy & currently located at the National Museum of Rome. Photo taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen.

Source: commons.wikimedia.org

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