“Athens (who primarily worshipped Athena) often wrote him as a psychotic brute and coward, but Sparta worshipped him as their primary deity, as Athens did more trade with the rest of Greece and placed a higher value on diplomacy their outlook on Ares is the one that permeated most of the ancient world.” The current revision of the article includes the following assertion: For instance, the website Villains Wiki has an article titled “Ares” (apparently because the people who write for the Wiki think that Ares is a “villain” in Greek mythology, which isn’t really accurate, but that’s a topic for another day). The claim that Ares was particularly revered in Sparta or even its patron god shows up all over the place on the internet. The modern notion that Ares was the patron god of Sparta Indeed, ironically, Athena actually seems to have had a much more developed cult presence in Sparta than Ares. As one of the Twelve Olympians, he was certainly a significant deity in both Athens and Sparta, but, in both poleis, he was still relatively minor compared to other deities who were far more prominent. The truth, though, is that Ares was not the patron god of Sparta in any sense. To modern observers, Ares seems to embody the Spartan ethos so perfectly that people simply assume without concrete evidence that the Spartans must have adored him. This impression, however, is not rooted in any kind of solid historical evidence, but rather solely in the fact that modern people popularly associate Ares and Sparta with many of the same general sorts of things, such as warfare, bloodshed, masculinity, unstoppable fighting abilities, et cetera. Many people have gotten the impression that, in ancient Greece, Ares was the patron god of Sparta in the same way that Athena was the patron goddess of Athens.

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