But animosity still burns in Olympus, and divine intervention keeps the war going. The story picks up after ten years of fighting, and it seems the humans have come up with a solution to end it. The Trojan War is a human conflict that was sparked by the gods, when Aphrodite promised Paris, a prince of Troy, the most beautiful human woman in the world if he would vote her the most beautiful goddess. She appeals to the rational side of war, while Ares appears when all rational thought has been abandoned. Ares and his sister Athena are like two sides of the same coin: She is strategy and training, he is chaos and mayhem. Zeus pushes the opposite way, telling him he has too much anger, like his mother Hera. His thinly veiled relationship with Aphrodite earns him his mother’s scorn as she sees him taking after Zeus. To tell Ares’ story, O’Connor focuses on the Trojan War, where not only are the humans fighting, but so are the gods.Īres’ story revolves around his relationships with the other gods.
#ARES GOD OF WAR SERIES#
This seventh volume of the Olympians series takes on the bloodiest of gods in one of the best known conflicts in Greek history. Ares’s story is told through this conflict, as the gods draw lines and involve themselves in the human conflict.įirst Second, January 2015, ISBN: 978-1626720138 Continuing from the previous volume Aphrodite, this volume picks up ten years into the Trojan War.
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Ares, the god of war, is the subject of the newest volume in the Olympians series.