Ares

Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera, and perhaps the least beloved of the Olympian gods. Where Athena represented military strategy and heroism, Ares embodied the blood-frenzy of combat. Even his parents disliked him — Zeus once told Ares he was the most hateful of all the gods on Olympus.

In the Trojan War, Ares fought for the Trojans but was repeatedly humiliated. Athena guided Diomedes' spear to wound him, and the god of war fled to Olympus howling in pain. He fared little better in mythology generally — the giant Otus and Ephialtes trapped him in a bronze jar for thirteen months.

His most famous relationship was his love affair with Aphrodite, the wife of Hephaestus. When the craftsman god discovered the affair, he trapped the lovers in an unbreakable golden net and displayed them to the other gods, who laughed at the spectacle.