Nothing pleased Ares better than a battle between two great armies. And although they worshiped him, they did not care to build quite so many temples in his honor as they did for the other gods. So, instead of loving him as they did Zeus and Apollo and Athena, they dreaded him, and called him 'bloody Ares,' and 'raging Ares,' because of his fierce temper. But the only help they could ever expect to get from Ares was that which he might give them when they were at war, and even then he might be on the other side. The Greeks believed that the other gods protected them, or helped them in useful ways, and so they loved them. HardingĪres was the god of war and battle, and cared for almost nothing else. The mythical story of Ares, the God of Warīy Caroline H.
