HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Mars (GreeK:Ares)
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Vulcan (Greek:Hephaistos)
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Bacchus (GreekL Dyonisus)
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Neptune (Greek:Poseidon)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Unlike Ares, who was viewed primarily as a destructive and destabilizing force, Mars represented military power as a way to secure peace, and was a father (pater) of the Roman people. In Rome’s mythic genealogy and founding, Mars fathered Romulus and Remus through his rape of Rhea Silvia.
Detailed explanation-2: -According to Roman polytheism, Romulus and Remus were the sons of Rhea Silvia by the god Mars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ares, in Greek religion, god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. Unlike his Roman counterpart, Mars, he was never very popular, and his worship was not extensive in Greece. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaughter.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ares was one of the twelve great Olympian gods, and the Greek god of war. He was relatively little worshipped by the Greeks, but his Roman equivalent, MARS, was a very important god, second only to JUPITER (ZEUS).