It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

#Ares is by #Aphrodite the father of #Anteros, Love Avenged.

"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

🏛️ #Neoclassical pendant

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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

#Ares is the father of Eros in many Greek myths, the god of sensual love. In ancient Greek art, Eros appears with same sex couples as well as opposite couples. #LoveIsLove.

🏛️ #Fresco of #Mars and #Venus with Eros and Deimos, #Pompeii & vase painting of #Eros kissing his mother's lover #Adonis.

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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

There is one character from #GreekMythology who might have been a male lover to #Ares: Alektryon, a youth dear to Ares, who would guard the door while Ares was with Aphrodite.
I wrote about him hooking up with Ares:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/fiction-in-heat-65144514

🏛️ A modern statue by Malcolm Lidbury depicting two soldier lovers of the Sacred Band of Thebes

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It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!

Roman bronze statuette of #Mars, the God of War and Agriculture. So cute and tiny! Only 5.5 cm in length.

🏛️ Dated 1st-2nd century CE, today in a private collection.

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