Athena and Ares

   The rivalry and enmity Athena and Ares repeatedly described in the epic, with several wins Athena and Ares - never.

   In the Iliad she first takes out of the battle Ares (V 29-36), and then using Diomedes wins it (V 855-867), covered with a helmet of Hades and became invisible, even Ares (V 845). She holds Ares on Mount Olympus (XV 123-142), and during the "Battle of the Gods" rises against Ares (XX 69), and once again defeats him, reflecting the auspices of his spear and kill Ares, throwing boulders (XXI 392-414).

   Heracles wounded Ares, with its help in the poem "The Shield of Heracles. According to the Telegonus "during the war brigs and fesprotov Athena engages in battle with Ares, supporting the Odyssey. In Sophocles meets appeal to Athena, which saves Thebes, and the call to drive Ares.

   In the poem, Quintus of Smyrna Athena appears in Troy to the battle with Ares, Zeus, but stops them, and it returns to Athens, then Ares again against Athens, and again Zeus stops them. In the poem, Nonna Ares wants to fight with Athena and Hephaestus, and in the battle of the gods Athena defeats Ares.

   According to the philosopher Proclus, in the "Battle of the Gods in Homer involved are not gods, and their emanations demons in the material otherness; Athena and Ares fight as an intellectual ordering of life with the need.