Athena Sustainable Materials Institute
After the couple was released, the embarrassed Ares returned to his homeland, Thrace, and Aphrodite went to Paphos. This ambivalence is expressed also in the Greeks’ association of Ares with the Thracians, whom they regarded as a barbarous and warlike people today. Thrace was considered to be Ares’s birthplace and his refuge soon after the affair with Aphrodite was exposed to the basic mockery of the other gods. Herodotus recognises…Read More