god
Ares
also: Ἄρευς, Ἄρης
God of war, the standard heroic measure of a big man; in fr. 111 the bridegroom arrives 'the equal of Ares' — martial flattery played for affection in a wedding song.
Reading notes
- The Epithalamia — Wedding Songs §111 Ares
God of war, the standard heroic comparison for a big man; in a wedding song the martial epithet is affectionate exaggeration, cut down at once by the homely 'far bigger than a big man.'
- Fragments of Uncertain Book, with the Epigrams and Dubia §dub-alc-349 Ares
The war god, boasting here that he will drag Hephaestus back to Olympus by force — and, in the story this line belongs to, failing where wine and Dionysus later succeed; the modern editions assign the line to Alcaeus.