Ares : son of Zeus & Hera, god of war, lover of Aphrodite, father of the Amazon queen Penthesilea, he favoured the Trojans. He is identified as the Roman Mars.
... and luck-bringing Hermes, The wiliest god of all. And with these went Hephaestus, Exulting in might, for though he limped, his thin legs Were nimble enough. But huge bright-helmeted Ares And Apollo with hair unshorn went down to the Trojans, Along with arrow-showering Artemis, Leto, The river-god Xanthus, and Aphrodite, adorer Of smiles. So long as the gods were... Hatred arose With a vengeance. Athena screamed her great war-cry, now From beside the deep trench outside the wall, now From the surf-beaten shore of the sea, and, opposite her Dread Ares, ominous as a dark whirlwind, screamed From the citadel heights, and again as he charged down the slope Of Callicolone beside the banks of Simoeis. Thus the happy gods greatly augmented... Would look on with loathing. Such was the mighty uproar When god clashed with god in strife. For against lord Poseidon Stood Phoebus Apollo, god of the winged shafts, And opposite Ares stood bright-eyed Athena. Opposing _______________ * Moldering: crumbling to dust; decaying. Page 49 Hera was Phoebus' sister, the archer Artemis, Goddess of golden shafts and ...
... laughter the brilliant Priamid Paris: "Joy of the battle, joy of the tempest, joy of the gamble Mated are in thy blood, O virgin, daughter of Ares. Thou like the deathless wouldst have us combat, us who are human? Come, let the gods do their will with us, Ares let lead and his daughter! Always the blood is wiser and knows what is hid from the thinker. Life and treasure and fame to cast on the wings... Thundered down to earth's plains the mighty impetuous Ares. Page 449 Far where Deiphobus stern was labouring stark and outnumbered Smiting the Achaian myriads back on the right of the carnage, Over the hosts in his car he stood and darkened the Argives. But in the courts divine the Thunderer spoke to his children: "Ares resisting a present Fate for the hope of the future, Gods... of the mighty in Hellas, Thus returns. Let Ares judge twixt the Greek and the Eastern." Fast sped the spear but Valarus held forth his shield and rebutted Shouting the deadly point that could pierce not his iron refusal. "Echemus, surely thy vaunt has reached me, but unfelt is thy spear-point. Weak are men's arms, it seems, in Hellas; a boy there Ares Aims with reeds not spears at pastoral cheeses ...
... Thundered down to earth's plains the mighty impetuous Ares. Far where Deiphobus stern was labouring stark and outnumbered Smiting the Achaian myriads back on the right of the carnage, Over the hosts in his car he stood and darkened the Argives. But in the courts divine the Thunderer spoke to his children: Page 83 "Ares resisting a present Fate for the hope of the future... Shaking the world with the force of his advent thundered Poseidon; Space grew full of his stride and his cry. Immortal Apollo Shone and his silver clang was heard with alarm in our kingdoms. Ares' impetuous eyes looked forth from a cloud-drift of splendour; Page 75 Themis' steps appeared and Ananke, the mystic Erinnys; Nor was Hephaestus' flaming strength from his father divided... puissant Spoke to his sons in their souls and they heard him, mighty in silence. Then to her brother divine the white-armed passionless Hera: "Zeus, we remember; thy sons forget, Apollo and Ares." "Hera, queen of the heavens, they forget not, but choose to be mindless. This is the greatness of gods that they know and can put back the knowledge; Doing the work they have chosen ...
... Trojans in the war despite Laomedon's treachery, but in Ilion he finally deserts the city, though he stands behind Paris in the battle, leaving it open to destruction by the Greeks. Ares: the Greek war-god, identified with the Roman Mars. The Greeks had a less exalted conception of him than the Romans, however, tending to see him as a mere instigator of strife. He was the son ... Aphrodite. Athene: goddess of reason and skill who sprang, unmothered, from the forehead of Zeus. Depicted as a woman of severe beauty in armour, she is a virgin warrior but fights, not like Ares for the sheer assertion of strength and love of battle, but to uphold the right and establish order. She is also known as Pallas. Her statue, the Palladium, stood in Troy, but Athene herself aided... a sublime figure devoid of the passions of jealousy and vanity attributed to her in Greek mythology. Her will is one with that of her spouse, and therefore she works for the destruction of Troy. Ares and Hephaestus are her sons. Heracles: Hercules (his Latin name), the mightiest and most famous of Greek heroes. He was given twelve great labours the accomplishment ...
... order Fixed in the sight of a Will foreknowing and silent and changeless, Hera sent by Zeus and Athene lifting his aagis Guarded the hidden decree. But for Ilion, loud as the surges, Ares impetuous called to the fire in men's hearts, and his passion Woke in the shadowy depths the forms of the Titan and demon; Dumb and coerced by the grip of the gods in the abyss of... some supraliminal undreamt-of by our psycho-analysts. A revelation as powerful and profoundly realistic but of a different realm of the subliminal is upon us in the poetry that seizes the secret of Ares. Each word, each phrase, each line is packed with the occult life and the hidden hungers below our day-to-day normal mind, volcanic secrets at a tension within us waiting to snap the bonds of reason ...
... defend her Safe from the envy of Argos, from Lacedaemonian hatred, Safe from the hunger of Crete and the Locrian's violent rapine. But if you turn from my voice and you hearken only to Ares Crying for battle within you deluded by Hera and Pallas, Swiftly fierce death's surges shall close over Troy and her ramparts Built by the gods shall be stubble and earth to the tread... warlike, regal and swift" and delivers to him her message in these words: "Sea of renown and of valour that fillest the world with thy rumour, Speed of the battle incarnate, mortal image of Ares! Terror and tawny delight like a lion one hums or is hunted! Dread of the world and my target, swift-footed glorious hero! Thus have I imaged thee, son of Peleus, dreaming in countries ...
... races—seem to have been otherwise clear, concrete & definite. The Greeks knew well what they meant by Fate, Necessity,Ate, Themis, Dike, Koros,Hubris; we are in no danger of confusing morally Zeus with Ares, or Ares with Hephaistos, Aphrodite with Pallas or Pallas with Artemis! We will suppose, however, that the higher spiritual development of the Indians, their urge towards universality, prevented them from ...
... Fixed in the sight of a Will foreknowing and silent and changeless, Hera sent by Zeus and Athene lifting his aegis Guarded the hidden decree. But for Ilion, loud as the surges, Ares impetuous called to the fire in men's hearts, and his passion Woke in the shadowy depths the forms of the Titan and demon; Dumb and coerced by the grip of the gods in the abyss of the being... the glorious god and the fruitful pain of the iron. 1 Among the speeches given to Zeus a passage affords a rare insight into the nature of the deific. When Hera says that Zeus's sons Apollo and Ares forget the supreme purpose, he replies: "Hera, queen of the heavens, they forget not, but choose to be mindless. This is the greatness of gods that they know and can put back the knowledge; ...
... describes the ceremony in honour of the Saka war-god, the counterpart of the Greek Ares. The top of an immense heap of brushwood is levelled into a platform and "on it is planted an ancient iron sword". "Annual sacrifices of horses and other cattle are made to this sword.... Prisoners of war are also sacrificed to Ares ... one man is chosen out of every hundred, wine is poured over his head, and his ...
... Troy and now, now not a single one is left, I tell you. Mestor the indestructible, Troilus, passionate horseman and Hector, a god among men — no son of a mortal man, he seemed a deathless god's. But Ares killed them all and all he left me are these, these disgraces — liars, dancers, heroes only at beating the dancing rings, you plunder your own people for lambs and kids! Why don't you get my wagon ready... I tell you. Fifty sons I had when the sons of Achaea came, nineteen born to me Page 36 from a single mother's womb and the rest by other women in the palace. Many, most of them violent Ares cut the knees from under. But one, one was left me, to guard my walls, my people — the one you killed the other day, defending his fatherland, my Hector! It's all for him I've come to the ships now ...
... to raze Mycenae, Argos, and Sparta to the ground. The war is renewed; many a man falls pierced by arrow, lance, or sword, and "darkness enfolds his eyes." (V) The gods join in the merry slicing game; Ares, the awful god of war, is hurt by Diomed's spear, "utters a cry as of nine thou-sand men" and runs off to complain to Zeus. (VI) In a pretty interlude the Trojan leader Hector, before rejoining the... (XIX) Achilles is reconciled with Agamemnon, (XX) engages Aeneas, and is about to kill him when Poseidon rescues him. (XXI) Achilles slaughters a host of Trojans. The gods take up the fight: Athena lays Ares low with a stone, and when Aphrodite, going for a soldier tries to save him, Athena knocks her down with a blow upon her fair breast. Hera cuffs the ears of Artemis; Poseidon and Apollo content themselves ...
... towered city and the doom of empire, obscure forces are at work to usher in a new era, to compel new life to rise phoenix-like out of the ashes of the old. On a superficial view, some of the divinities - Ares, Aphrodite, Apollo - are on the side of the Trojans, while others, Poseidon and Hera and Athene, are with the Greeks. And above them all are the "awful three" - Themis, Dis and Ananke - and Zeus of... intention to insinuate through hints and nuances of surmise that human motives and actions are not autonomous but are involved in the movements and purposings of the gods. Poseidon heaven within us. Ares starts fires in us. Aphrodite causes a mad flutter in our hearts, Apollo kindles a sudden transfiguring light. The occult and the terrestrial planes intersect unexpectedly, the subliminal is a sea ...
... Greek and Latin, aro, arvum, ἄρoνρα, Page 350 ἄρóω, ἄρoτoς, άρóτƞσ, ἄρoτρoν . But its earlier and more distinguished sense was “to fight”. From this sense we get आर्यः, अरिः, अर्यमा, Greek Ares, the god of war; άρετή, fighting power, courage, virtue; ἄρεσɩς, Latin arx. It also meant to excel, rule, lead; to enjoy, satisfy, love, woo, please, Gr. άρέσχω, ἄρχoμαɩ, ἄρχων, Tamil arasan, a King ...
... symbols of the sacrifice were still familiar to us and the names of the Vedic gods still carried their old psychological significance,—as the Greek or Latin names of classical deities, Aphrodite or Ares, Venus or Minerva, still bear their sense for a cultured European,—the device of an interpretative translation could have been avoided. But India followed another curve of literary and religious development ...
... stake like a victim adorned as for bridal, Life shall be bathed in my flames and be purified gold or ashes. I, Aphrodite, shall move the world for ever and ever..." The War-God Ares, denied his free dominion, refuses to dwell in Greece and looks forward to the Greeks' successors in Europe: "Consuls browed like the cliffs and plebeians stern of the wolf-brood, Senates ...
... by that effort an Aryan. If Arya were a purely racial term, a more probable derivation would be ar , meaning strength or valour, from ar , to fight, whence we have the name of the Greek war-god Ares, areios , brave or warlike, perhaps even aretē , virtue, signifying, like the Latin virtus , first, physical strength and courage and then moral force and elevation. This sense of the word also we ...
... pardoned. 284) Who shall slay thee, O soul immortal? Who shall torture thee, O God ever-joyous? 285) Think this when thy members would fain make love with depression and weakness, "I am Bacchus and Ares and Apollo; I am Agni pure and invincible; I am Surya ever burning mightily." 286) Shrink not from the Dionysian cry & rapture within thee, but see that thou be not a straw upon those billows. ...
... Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 286, 287, 288 286—Think this when thy members would fain make love with depression and weakness, "I am Bacchus and Ares and Apollo; I am Agni pure and invincible; I am Surya ever burning mightily." 287—Shrink not from the Dionysian cry and rapture within thee, but see that thou be not a straw upon those billows. ...
... perishing of one culture and the arising of another can man progress: the hour is ripe now for the advent of the rule of Reason and there must be for its sake the subdual of three powers—Aphrodite, Ares and Apollo. After addressing several of the Gods, far-seeing Zeus says to "the brilliant offspring born of his musings": 2 "What shall I say to the thought that is calm in thy breasts, O Athene ...
... by that effort an Aryan. "If Arya were a purely racial term, a more probable derivation would be Ar, meaning strength or valour, from ar to fight, whence we have the name of the Greek wargod Ares areios, brave or warlike, perhaps even arete, virtue, signifying, like the Latin virtus, first, physical strength and courage and then moral force and elevation. This sense of the word also we ...
... Persephone's white Fire-Soul, And she too knows the pain - we peeped and saw Those threatening terrors looming up in stealth, And heard them planning to destroy your world. O Father, call forth Ares; he and I, Your warrior-powers, will lead your armies out. They cannot ever stand against us. Father. Aphrodite ( now recovered ) Or better still, dear Father, hurl down swift ...
... Bull, the Aswins (Castor & Pollux) the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) the Girl, Yama (Hades) the Balance, Aryama (Ares) the Scorpion, Mitra or Bhava (Apollo Phoebus) the Archer, Saraswati called also Ganga (Nais) the Crocodile, Parjanya (Apis) the Jar, Nara (Nereus) the Fish. All these gods have their own character ...
... preeminent, noble, excellent or first; to raise, lead, begin or rule; it means also to struggle, fight, to drive, to labour, to plough. The sense of struggle & combat appears in ari, an enemy; the Greek Ares, the war-god, arete, virtue, meaning originally like the Latin virtus, valour; the Latin arma, weapons. Arya means strong, high, noble or warlike, as indeed its use in literature constantly indicates ...
... Fate and the order Fixed in the sight of a Will foreknowing and silent and changeless, Hera sent by Zeus and Athene lifting his aegis Guarded the hidden decree. But for Ilion, loud as the surges, Ares impetuous called to the fire in men's hearts, and his passion Woke in the shadowy depths the forms of the Titan and demon; Dumb and coerced by the grip of the gods in the abyss of the being, Formidable ...
... God—but the divine master of prophecy and poetry; Athene has lost any naturalistic significance she may ever have had and is a pure moral force, the goddess of strong intelligence, force guided by brain; Ares is the lord of battles, not a storm wind; Artemis, if she is the Moon, is also goddess of the free hunting life and of virginity; Aphrodite is only the goddess of Love & Beauty There is therefore a ...
... trikaldrishti—yeast, that is the inchoate ferment 4) pragmatic telepathy 5) taste. 6) glad of bliss—ie the system & all its environment consenting to the Ananda. This is now done 7) glad of Ares in the force & struggle harmonised with the Ananda. This is now undertaken. 8) toil 9) [ no notation ] Page 834 References 1) enimvero .. certainly, but indeed .. enisus .. eniteo ...
... is difficult to fix the meaning of this word. The sense of अर् is strong energy in being, action, motion, light etc; it means to lift, be high (Gr. αἴρω, ἄρδƞν, arduus), to plough, ἀρóωn, to fight, (Ares, arete, etc), to excel, to be swift, bright, as in अरुष. We must fall back on its connection with अश्वाः to determine its meaning in this passage. If a अश्वाः could mean horses, Sayana would be right ...
... अर्घ, अर्च्, अर्ह. The Tamil aran, aram (virtue), the Greek ἄρɩστος, αἴρω, ἄρχω, ἄρχομαɩ, ἀρετή, ὄρος a mountain; from (2) the sense fight, slay or hurt, oppress, in अर्, अर्व्, अर्ब्, अर्द्, अरि, Ares, अराति, arma, अररः, and plough, work, row, propel in अर्, aro, arvum, ἀρóω, ἄροτν, ἄρουρα, अरित्रं, अरर्यति; from (3) the sense of swift motion in अर, अर्व्. The idea in anarvá ksheti is that the ...
... sojourn Rapt to his courts of mystic light and unbearable brilliance. Presented here is book eight. The Book of the Gods. At their father’s call, together with all the other gods, impetuous Ares, lovely Aphrodite, beautiful Apollo and clear-smiling Athene have come to an assembly. Zeus speaks to them "in their soul” and "in their soul” they answer him. Then, looking neither for fruit nor for ...
... in needless suffering and death among the Greeks. The war by now had reached Olympus. The gods were ranged against each other. Aphrodite was on the side of Paris, Hera and Athena against him. Ares, god of war, always took side with Aphrodite, while Poseidon, Lord of the sea, favored the Greeks, a sea people and great sailors. Apollo helped the Trojans for the sake of Hector, son of Priam and ...
... Workings immortal obscurely struggling, hints of a godhead Labour to form in this clay a divinity. Hera widens, Pallas aspires in me, Phoebus in flames goes battling and singing, Ares and Artemis chase through the fields of my soul in their hunting. Last in some hour of the fates a Birth stands released and triumphant... But we shall have some more insights into these ...
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