Ares: The Many Shades of the War God
3:16 mins | English | TSIO
"Great Ares, who twirls his bloody spear on the battleground and leaves mothers in unending tears!" Ah, don't be afraid, dear reader. We're not charging into war; we're just embarking on a whimsical foray into the excitingly conflicted world of Ares, the Greek God of War. He, unlike the modern idea of a deity, is as full of complications as your morning Sudoku puzzle, albeit slightly bloodier. In the bustling boardroom of the gods that was Olympus, Ares was not, to put it mildly, the poster-boy for good behavior. Each Olympian seemed to be allotted a specific dominion—Poseidon had his watery real estate, Demeter her grain bowl—but Ares, ever the rebel, chose the less PR-friendly option of war. No mere knight-in-shining-armor was he, but rather the very embodiment of conflict,
