Is Ares the most beta god of war in all mythology? >only Spartans

>>1399918
Well, he is the greek god of war, of course he is as useless as the norse god of fine arts or the egyptian god of snow

Don't conflate Homer's jocular portrayal with the common conception.

Athena was basically that kid in elementary school who gave himself every superpower when he was playing pretend superheroes.

>>1399958
>as useless as the norse god of fine arts
>Odin useless
try again.

>>1399918
Not to mention the mortal he empowered in exchange for absolute obedience killed him in fair fight in the end.
> God tier status = what's even the point?

>>1399958
What would be a useful god for the Greeks? Inb4 god of paying debts.

>>1399918

Hephaestus is more beta.

>forced to make shit for everyone and none of them ever say thank you
>so ugly that Aphrodite was married to him to keep the other gods from getting jealous
>Aphrodite fucked Ares and everyone else anyway

>>1399918

The greeks had two gods of war: Ares and Athena.

Ares represented the savage side of war. War as the barbarians understood it.

Athena represented war as the greeks understood it, with discipline, strategy, tactics, etc.

Guess wich one they preferred?

Athena literally beat the crap out of him at one point. I think he even got rekt by a human, don't remember exactly.

So yeah he was kind of the butt of jokes in Greek mythology. Aggro little fuck who gets his shit kicked in.

>>1399968
Yeah Athena was kind of a Mary Sue, but really the most important god of the pantheon.

The prophecy that caused Zeus to swallow Athena's mother said that she would one day surpass him. There's also her being born already adult and in full armor, which hints at her having a more ancient origin. And it's hard to ignore how similar she is to Neith, who was revered as the most important goddess in the earliest period of Ancient Egypt, before falling out of fashion.

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>>1401453
Reminder that Neith/Athena was reincarnated in Western Christendom.

>>1401461
must suck, being a god and then being reincarnated only to get fucked by Anglo's and then burned.

>>1401616
Sorry m8, Joan died a virgin. Just as Neith and Athena were.

>>1399918
Yet another example of Roman superiority. Mars was a true god of war who isn't a pussy like Ares.

>>1399918

Athena was the goddess of war as a tactical/strategic affair, Ares was the god of 'battle madness' - basically the furour and terror of war rather than its more subtle parts.

Seen this way it makes sense that he'd always lose, as any Greek would know that calculated battle plans prevail over a frenzied approach.
The bits where you can't follow what is happening in Bastardbowl are the things of which Ares is god.

>>1401461
>being reincarnated into a schizophrenic peasant from france.