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The Chorus of [[Aeschylus]]' ''[[The Suppliants (Aeschylus)|Suppliants]]'' (written 463 BC) refers to Ares as Aphrodite's "mortal-destroying bedfellow". In the ''Illiad'', Ares helps the Trojans because of his affection for their divine protector, Aphrodite; she thus redirects his innate destructive savagery to her own purposes.<ref name="Millington, Alexander T. 2013, pp.555-557"/><ref name="discovery.ucl.ac.uk"/> | The Chorus of [[Aeschylus]]' ''[[The Suppliants (Aeschylus)|Suppliants]]'' (written 463 BC) refers to Ares as Aphrodite's "mortal-destroying bedfellow". In the ''Illiad'', Ares helps the Trojans because of his affection for their divine protector, Aphrodite; she thus redirects his innate destructive savagery to her own purposes.<ref name="Millington, Alexander T. 2013, pp.555-557"/><ref name="discovery.ucl.ac.uk"/> | ||
===Giants=== | |||
In one archaic myth, related only in the ''Iliad'' by the goddess [[Dione (mythology)|Dione]] to her daughter Aphrodite, two chthonic giants, the [[Aloadae]], named Otus and Ephialtes, bound Ares in chains and imprisoned him in a bronze urn, where he remained for thirteen months, a [[lunar year]]. "And that would have been the end of Ares and his appetite for war, if the beautiful Eriboea, the young giants' stepmother, had not told [[Hermes]] what they had done," she related.<ref>''Iliad'' 5.385–391.</ref> In this, [Burkert] suspects "a festival of licence which is unleashed in the thirteenth month".<ref name = "rjblqd">Burkert, [https://archive.org/details/greekreligion0000burk/page/169/mode/2up?view=theater p. 169]</ref><ref>Faraone, "Binding and Burying", 1991, pp. 166–220</ref> Ares was held screaming and howling in the urn until Hermes rescued him, and [[Artemis]] tricked the Aloadae into slaying each other. | |||
In [[Nonnus]]'s ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', in the war between [[Cronus]] and Zeus, Ares killed an unnamed giant son of [[Echidna (mythology)|Echidna]] who was allied with Cronus, and described as spitting "horrible poison" and having "snaky" feet.<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' [https://archive.org/details/dionysiaca02nonnuoft/page/82/mode/2up?view=theater 18.274–288 (II pp. 82, 83)].</ref> <!--is this in Dionysiaca?:Zeus helped him heal afterwards.--> | |||
In some versions of the [[Gigantomachy]], Ares was the god who killed the giant [[Mimas (Giant)|Mimas]].<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/276/mode/2up 3.1225–7 (pp. 276–277)]; [[Claudian]], ''Gigantomachia'' [https://archive.org/stream/claudia02clau#page/286/mode/2up 85–91 (pp. 286–287)].</ref> | |||
In the 2nd century AD ''Metamorphoses'' of [[Antoninus Liberalis]], when the monstrous [[Typhon]] attacked Olympus the gods transformed into animals and fled to Egypt; Ares changed into a fish, the Lepidotus (sacred to the Egyptian war-god [[Anhur]]). Liberalis's [[koine]] Greek text is a "completely inartistic" epitome of [[Nicander]]'s now lost ''Heteroeumena'' (2nd century BC).<ref>Myers, Sarah, University of Michigan, reviewing Celoria's translation in ''Bryn Mawr Classical Review'', 1994 ([http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1994/94.01.03.html on-line text]).</ref><ref>Francis Celoria points out that in Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', Venus [Aphrodite's Roman equivalent], hides herself as a fish. See Celoria, Francis, Antoninus Liberalis, ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'', A Translation with a Commentary, 1992, pp. 87, 186, eBook Published 24 October 2018, London, Routledge, [https://books.google.com/books?id=9_Eolzuv0eQC&dq=Antoninus+Liberalis+Typhon&pg=PA71] DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315812755</ref> | |||