# ares tuesday aphrodite pompeii mars venus

It's the / Mars' Day / Tuesday!

"Ah, ah, you gods and goddesses, raise your war cry over our walls to drive away the onrushing evil! . You too, us!--guard the city named for Kadmos and make evident your closeness to us!"
Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 87

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2022-07-26

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day /

Ares-Mars and the love of his life in a beautiful fresco from surrounded by their children, the Erotes or Loves.
45–79 CE, today in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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2022-02-15