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This article is about the god in Age of Mythology. For the god in Age of Empires: Mythologies, see Ares (Age of Empires: Mythologies).

You have advanced to the Classical Age through the Strife caused by Ares.
—Age up text in Age of Mythology

Ares is a Classical Age Greek minor god in Age of Mythology. He is available to worshipers of Hades and Poseidon.

Attributes[]

God power[]

  • AoMR Pestilence icon Pestilence: When used, Pestilence prevents enemy buildings (except Town Center-type buildings) within the targeted area from producing units and attacking for a duration. It does not affect their technology research speed.

Technologies[]

Myth unit[]

  • AoMR Cyclops icon Cyclops: Tough but slow melee unit that is good against buildings and tough units. Its special attack is picking up and hurling a human enemy unit, gravely damaging it and other enemy units it lands on.

Technology tree[]

AoMR Ares artwork
Ares
Age
Classical Age
God power
AoMR Pestilence icon
Pestilence
AoMR Temple icon
Temple
AoMR Cyclops icon
Cyclops
AoMR Will of Kronos icon
Will of Kronos
AoMR Stable icon
Stable
AoMR Phobos Spear of Panic icon
Phobos' Spear of Panic
AoMR Military Academy icon
Military Academy
AoMR Deimos Sword of Dread icon
Deimos' Sword of Dread
AoMR Hypaspist icon
Hypaspist
(Unlocked by Deimos' Sword of Dread)
AoMR Armory icon
Armory
AoMR Enyos Bow of Horror icon
Enyo's Bow of Horror
AoMR Archery Range icon
Archery Range

Strategy[]

A player should consider worshiping Ares if they want to focus on early rushes and a military advantage. He improves the attack of infantry and Toxotes while also granting early access to the Hypaspist through Deimos' Sword of Dread, granting an advantage in Classical Age combat. He allows for effective rushes as his god power prevents the enemy from getting reinforcements, making it easier for the Ares player's improved units to decimate their opponent. Also, the Cyclops is the most powerful Classical Age myth unit in the game, able to decimate small armies and destroy early buildings, such as Watch Towers, further enhancing Ares' rushing potential.

Mythology[]

The Greek god of war, he is usually seen with a spear, the preferred weapon of Greek Hoplites. He was tall and handsome, but vain and cruel. He was preoccupied with war and battles, quick to rush into a fight, reveled in bloodshed, and heedless of who won or lost. He was worshipped most strongly in regions like Thrace, where the people were particularly fierce. There was one exception to his obsession with war: he was smitten by Aphrodite and had a long running affair with her. Homer recounts in the Odyssey a tale of the sun god Helios spotting the pair enjoying each other's charms and reporting their tryst to Hephaestus, Aphrodite's husband. The great smith fashioned a special net in which he caught the pair locked in their passionate embrace. He offered to exhibit the netted pair to the gods of Olympus, but the women demurred. Homer says that many of the male gods offered to switch places with Ares.
—In-game help section

Gallery[]

Gods in Age of Mythology
Civilization
AoMR Archaic Age icon Archaic Age
AoMR Classical Age icon Classical Age
AoMR Heroic Age icon Heroic Age
AoMR Mythic Age icon Mythic Age
AoMR Greeks icon Greeks AoMR Zeus icon Zeus
AoMR Hades icon Hades
AoMR Poseidon icon Poseidon
AoMR Athena icon Athena

AoMR Hermes icon Hermes

AoMR Ares icon Ares
AoMR Apollo icon Apollo

AoMR Dionysus icon Dionysus

AoMR Aphrodite icon Aphrodite
AoMR Hera icon Hera

AoMR Hephaestus icon Hephaestus

AoMR Artemis icon Artemis
AoMR Egyptians icon Egyptians AoMR Ra icon Ra
AoMR Isis icon Isis
AoMR Set icon Set
AoMR Bast icon Bast

AoMR Ptah icon Ptah

AoMR Anubis icon Anubis
AoMR Sobek icon Sobek ( HathorIcon Hathor)

AoMR Sekhmet icon Sekhmet

AoMR Nephthys icon Nephthys
AoMR Osiris icon Osiris

AoMR Horus icon Horus

AoMR Thoth icon Thoth
AoMR Norse icon Norse AoMR Thor icon Thor
AoMR Odin icon Odin
AoMR Loki icon Loki
AoMR Freyr icon Freyr
AoMR Freyja icon Freyja

AoMR Heimdall icon Heimdall

AoMR Forseti icon Forseti

AoMR Ullr icon Ullr
AoMR Skadi icon Skadi

AoMR Bragi icon Bragi

AoMR Njord icon Njord

AoMR Aegir icon Aegir
AoMR Baldr icon Baldr

AoMR Tyr icon Tyr

AoMR Hel icon Hel

AoMR Vidar icon Vidar
AoMR Atlanteans icon Atlanteans AoMR Kronos icon Kronos
AoMR Oranos icon Oranos
AoMR Gaia icon Gaia
AoMR Prometheus icon Prometheus

AoMR Leto icon Leto

AoMR Oceanus icon Oceanus
AoMR Hyperion icon Hyperion

AoMR Rheia icon Rheia

AoMR Theia icon Theia
AoMR Helios icon Helios

AoMR Atlas icon Atlas

AoMR Hekate icon Hekate
ChinesePortrait Chinese FuXiPortrait Fu Xi
NuWaPortrait Nü Wa
ShennongPortrait Shennong
HuangDiIcon Huang Di

SunWukongIcon Sun Wukong

ChangEIcon Chang'e
DaboGongIcon Dabo Gong

ZhongKuiIcon Zhong Kui

HeBoIcon He Bo
ChongliIcon Chongli

AoKuangIcon Ao Kuang

XiWangmuIcon Xi Wangmu
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