From "Ares" To "Mars"

Ares and Mars respectively, the ancient Greek and Roman god of war, it is well known that the gods of ancient Rome spectrum in numerous foreign gods, and this among them, become most with ancient Greece again. The Roman god of war Mars prototype is the Greek Ares.Ares is the Greek Olympus mons one of the twelve the Lord god, is the son of Zeus and Hera, is the symbol of power, but his murderous, bloody, is the embodiment of human scourge. Ares is not popular among other gods, even if the father mother also publicly displayed dislike of him. Be worth what carry is, also is the god of war, the ancient Greek god of war Athena actress wide audience love god and people’s worship of ancient Greece. Contrast the characteristics of the ares and Athena, because the former represents the pure brutal violence of war, the latter represents a rational restraint of the war. Ares and the status of Athena in Greece, reflects the ethnic characteristics of the greeks, namely advocate civilized, against the pure force.Mars, the Mars in the Roman mythology system, from Latin "Mars" and English" March "is derived from the name of the Mars, he was a Roman legion worship the god of war in one of the most important, how important is second only to Jupiter. Around the second century BC, Mars worship in Rome, the Romans imitation of Greek mythology system, also created a series of myths, including Mars prototypes is the ares. Unlike ares of the encounter is that Mars very high status in Rome, the Roman rule later augustus, Mars has not only become a Roman military protector, is the emperor’s protector. Regularly because of the outbreak of the war often war and triumph of the ceremony, the worship of Mars number even began gradually higher than that of Jupiter, the Romans sometimes calls himself "the son of Mars". Thus, a high status in Roman mind Mars. Worship of the Mars also reflects the characteristics of the ancient Romans, namely advocate of force, the desire to conquer.Marx’s philosophy point of view is the "material determines consciousness, consciousness reaction in material." The same for different worship of the gods, in turn, ACTS on people’s behavior, the greeks more specificly speaking, the Romans more martial. Disdain for ares, worship of Athena, the Greek civilization more inclusive, and worship of the Mars, is for growing the Roman god of war spirit make them more motivated to win the war.In this paper, we adopt the method of comparative analysis, the research in the ancient Greek and Roman mythology system different status of the god of war, and the ancient greeks and Romans for different attitudes of different ares, to explain the ancient greeks and Romans different ethnic characteristics. By looking for the historical data, a further proof reading Chinese and western research results. Found in this research topic is the author in the reading of a point of interest, and under the advice of a mentor, a further thought about for the ares different attitude reflects the different characteristics between the two peoples, also decided to the two peoples different ways of development.Based on the thinking of this idea, this paper mainly divided into four chapters to carry out, the first chapter and the third chapter points above ares and Mars. The first chapter mainly introduces the Greek myth of the god of war, the first section briefly introduces the Greek mythology ares. The second section introduces the mythical Athena; The third quarter before the suitable bearing22section, compares the different status of the ares and Athena and cause analysis; In order to open the third chapter, the second chapter mainly introduces the relationship between the Greek and Roman, lay the ground for Mars’s appearance. The third chapter focused on saturated to Mars in the Roman mythology, the first section is the general situation of the river Tiber; The second section analysis of worship and to Mars, the Roman society. The fourth chapter in this ares worship and national character of the Greek and Roman people characteristics analysis. The first and second quarter respectively introduced ancient Greek national character of the Romans, the third section is the contrast. Based on the analysis of the four chapter, finally this article conclusion, namely:the ancient Romans different attitude towards the ares in ancient Greece, embodies the national character of the two ethnic groups of different characteristics. More than ever for a comparative study of ancient Greek and Roman people for the study of specific behaviors, both for the comparative study of worship little attention. At present, the study of male god of war, for domestic and no work, foreign research is very rare, sprinkled with occasional, but is not complete. This article namely dig the different implied meaning behind the male worship of god of war, has certain positive significance to interpreting the ancient Greek Roman civilization.