This coin was minted circa 206 CE, during the reign of Caracalla. The obverse depicts the laureate head of Caracalla facing right. The reverse type features #Mars, naked save for cloak hanging from his shoulder, holding a branch and spear.
#HappyHalloween, Fediverse 🎃 #Ares represents many nasty things as the God of War and he begets Fear (Phobos) and Terror (Deimos).
"Warlike #Mars [Ares] invented new modes of strife and a thousand forms of death. From this source streams of blood stained all lands and the sea grew red."
Seneca, Phaedra 540
Ares-Mars embraced by his love Aphrodite-Venus with a dog at their feet. The club in his hand is usually part of the iconography of #Herakles so it could also be a fresco depicting #Hercules and Megaera or Deïaneira. Does anyone know if it's Mars of Hercules?
A humourous oil painting of the love of #Mars and #Venus that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old.
Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘
🏛️ Mars, Venus and #Vulcan, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.
Aphrodite is pouring a libation into the phiale (libation bowl) held by her lover Ares over an altar. A servant or child stands behind her on the left.
🏛️ Attic votive relief of Aphrodite and Ares. Marble. Dated to the 5th century BCE. Today in the National Archaeological Museum in #Venice.
Meet this red jasper #intaglio from #Wales depicting the Roman god #Mars standing in the nude, wearing only a crested helmet and the folds of a cloak over one arm. He cradles a long spear and holds a sheathed sword with its belt.
🏛️ Mars, Roman intaglio, Amgueddfa #Cymru - National Museum Wales
Meet this Roman stone statue of the god #Mars, found in #York. It was carved from local sandstone in the 4th century CE. #Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia that became the city of York. Eboracum was a busy port and a provincial capital with residents from all over the Roman Empire.
Tetrassarion #coin dated 162/163 CE. The reverse depicts Ares fully dressed in his armour with helmet, shield, and spear. Facing him stands Aphrodite of the Pudicitia type, holding one hand to her genitals and one hand to her breasts.
Roman intaglio of #Mars, the God of War. It is made from red jasper and shows the god in heroic nudidty wearing only his crested helmet and his arms, a long spear and a sheathed sword.
🏛️ Roman Britain, today in the Museum #Wales, Amgueddfa #Cymru.
Roman intaglio of #Mars, the God of War. It is made from red jasper and shows the god in heroic nudidty wearing only his crested helmet and his arms, a long spear and a sheathed sword.
🏛️ Roman Britain, today in the Museum #Wales, Amgueddfa #Cymru.
"Athenian Meles, spurning the love of Timagoras, a resident foreigner, bade him ascend to the highest point of the rock and cast himself down. When Meles saw that Timagoras was dead, he suffered such remorse that he threw himself from the same rock and so died."
Pausanias, Description of Greece
"Athenian Meles, spurning the love of Timagoras, a resident foreigner, bade him ascend to the highest point of the rock and cast himself down. When Meles saw that Timagoras was dead, he suffered such pangs of remorse that he threw himself from the same rock and so died."
"The space of the continents did bold #Ares watch, sitting armed on the high top of Thrakian Haimos, and his horses were stalled by the seven-chambered cave of Boreas."
Callimachus, Hymn 4 to Delos 51
🎨 Statuette of #Mars dated 100 - 200 CE, today in the Thorvaldsens Museum, Denmark
"The gifts of Ares are swords and brazen tunics to array the limbs and helmets and spears and whatsoever things Enyo delights in."
Oppian, Halieutica 2. 24
🎨 Gem engraving depicting #Ares-#Mars in military dress standing, head facing left. He is holding his spear and leaning upon a round shield. Slightly convex surface.
Meet this cuirassed #Roman marble bust of #Mars! A Corinthian helmet pushed back high above the forehead upon his wavy hair and the cuirass decorated with a small #gorgoneion identify him as Mars.
The helmet, the tip of nose, the lower edges of cheek-pieces, and a small patch of drapery have been restored in the 18th century.