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*'''miaifonos''', blood-stained | *'''miaifonos''', blood-stained | ||
*'''tykton kakon''', complete evil.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dtukto%2Fs Liddell Scott]</ref> | *'''tykton kakon''', complete evil.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dtukto%2Fs Liddell Scott]</ref> | ||
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[[File:Ares Argentina Montemartini.jpg|thumb|Ares, 2nd–3rd century AD, after a Greek bronze original by Alkamenes dated 420 BC,{{citation needed|reason=need [[WP:SCHOLARSHIP]] source for unqualified claim that the original was by Alcamenes; compare the careful description of the [[Ares Borghese]]|date=August 2023}} excavated in 1925 in Rome's [[Largo di Torre Argentina]]]] | |||
In mainland Greece and the [[Peloponnese]], only a few places are known to have had a formal temple and cult of Ares.<ref name="Burkert, p. 170">Burkert, [https://archive.org/details/greekreligion0000burk/page/170/mode/2up?view=theater p. 170].</ref>{{refn|group=n|Burkert lists temples at or near Troizen, Geronthrai and Halicarnassus. The Oxford Classical Dictionary adds Argos, Megalopolis, Therapne and Tegea in the Peloponnese, Athens and Erythrae, and Cretan sites Cnossus, Lato, Biannos and perhaps Olus.<ref name="OCD-Ares">{{cite book |last1=Graf |first1=Fritz |editor1-last=Hornblower & Spawforth |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=019866172X |page=152 |edition=Third |chapter=Ares}}</ref>}} [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] (2nd century AD) notes an altar to Ares at [[Olympia, Greece|Olympia]],<ref>Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-grc1:5.15.6 5.15.6].</ref> and the moving of a [[Temple of Ares]] to the [[Ancient Agora of Athens|Athenian agora]] during the reign of [[Augustus]], essentially rededicating it (2 AD) as a [[Roman temple]] to the Augustan [[Mars Ultor]].<ref name="Burkert, p. 170"/> The [[Areopagus]] ("mount of Ares"), a natural rock outcrop in Athens, some distance from the Acropolis, was supposedly where Ares was tried and acquitted by the gods for his revenge-killing of [[Poseidon]]'s son, [[Halirrhothius]], who had raped Ares' daughter [[Alcippe (daughter of Ares)|Alcippe]]. Its name was used for the court that met there, mostly to investigate and try potential cases of treason.<ref>Berens, E.M.: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, page 113. Project Gutenberg, 2007.</ref> | |||