Arès dans le quotidien des Grecs à travers l'épigraphie
This study talks about the god of war for the ancient Greeks, Ares.  The historical community asserts that Ares was a god of second order and unloved by the Greeks of this period.  Investigations of historians of XXe century are focus on literary sources and they simply restate, in most cases, the content of them.  To gain a new perspective on the god, Ares was studied through the epigraphic documents to corroborate or not our present knowledge.  We want to know if the Ares, as presented in the literature, has been the same as that was transmitted in the ancient Greek epigraphy.  The answer to this question will help us to see if our current knowledge is right and deepening it.    The epigraphic research is done in five steps.  First, we determine whether the military side of Ares was also predominant in the inscriptions.  Then we pay a specific attention to documents that propose an unloved Ares in the epigraphy.  After, we establish some links between the former oath and Ares.  Finally, we close the epigraphic study with a geographic approach who allows us to determine two important sites that belong to the god of war, the city of Metropolis and the island of Crete.    Through this process we were able to determine the appreciation and the importance, which the Greeks gave to this god, were not unanimous.  The resentment of the Greeks varied among individuals and places.  We were also able to establish some facts about Ares : his dominant sphere remained the military in the inscriptions; he was a reel god, present, respected and praised; he possessed important places of worship in Lato and Metropolis.   In conclusion, we redefine Ares profile, so it would be interesting that a research reviews the literacy sources about him.  Furthermore, an evaluation of all the sources (iconographic, archaeological, numismatic, epigraphic etc…) would also be appropriated.
Ares Epigraphy Greek religion Ancient Greece