Ares governs:

• Slaughter
   
• Chaos
   
• The heat of battle
   
• Courage and fear
   
• The clash of weapons
   

He is accompanied by:

• Deimos (Terror)
   
• Phobos (Fear)
   
• Enyo (War goddess)
   
• The Keres (death-spirits)
   

Unlike Athena, he does not represent:

• Strategy
   
• Justice
   
• Defense of the city
   

He is the fury of combat itself.

In the Trojan War, Ares fights on the Trojan side.

At one point:

• The hero Diomedes (with Athena’s help) wounds Ares.
   
• Ares flees to Olympus crying out in pain.
   

Zeus rebukes him harshly.

This episode reveals:

• Ares is powerful but not invincible.
   
• He lacks discipline.
   
• He is emotionally reactive.

Ares' most famous relationship is with Aphrodite.

Though Aphrodite is married to Hephaestus, she has a passionate affair with Ares.

They have children:

• Eros (in some traditions)
   
• Harmonia
   
• Deimos and Phobos
   

Hephaestus eventually traps them in a net and exposes them before the gods.

This myth symbolizes:

• The union of love and war
   
• Passion and destruction intertwined
   
• Attraction between opposites

In one myth, two giants (the Aloadae) capture Ares and imprison him in a bronze jar for over a year.

He is eventually rescued by Hermes.

This story shows:

• Even war can be contained
   
• Ares is brute force without cunning
   
• Intelligence (Hermes) frees strength

Ares has no death myth, no exile from Olympus, and no final downfall. He remains an immortal Olympian throughout Greek mythology.

But his “ending” is interesting in a symbolic sense.