i like ares, he has a few myths that really show him to be a swell boy. he has the ultimate aura farm, the cool helmet. all of it. He has a lot of myths that show him to be an interesting and respectable character. but man I do not like the insane generalizations of him nowadays. cuz it reflects on some very dark truths about our fucked up current beliefs. Like, he raped Phylonome. All sex by deception is rape. like cmon. cmon. "Phylonome, the daughter of Nyktimos and Arkadia, was wont to hunt with Artemis; but Ares, in the guise of a shepherd, got her with child" -Plutarch, Greek and Roman Parallel Stories Also, this isn't even saying she chose to sleep with what she thought was a shepherd. the fact she tries to kill the children does not help ares case. Like, I'm not saying you need to use this story to reflect on Ares all the time, it's one tale of many over the course of multiple civilizations, Plutarch and Homer are so far apart. but we don't need to like, say Ares has no rape myths. or try to contrast or compare him to other gods.
i will continue to like Ares and his stories, as I do other gods but I will also treat Phylonome like the victim she is.
hey maybe theres a version of phylonome where its fully consensual and its just not on topostext or theoi.