Fictional characters appearing in DC Comics publications and related media
Top to bottom: the post-Crisis Deimos, Eris and Phobos, art by Phil Jimenez based on George Pérez's character designs, 1999.
The Children of Ares are several fictional characters appearing in DC Comics publications and related media, commonly as recurring adversaries of the superhero Wonder Woman. Primarily based on eponymous Greek mythological figures, they are malevolent progeny of Wonder Woman's nemesis, the war god Ares. Three in particular – Deimos, Phobos and Eris – have emerged as especially enduring characters, appearing in every era of Wonder Woman's comic book adventures since debuting in 1969's Wonder Woman #183. Beginning in the Silver Age of Comic Books, these three characters have often been presented as Ares’ principal legates in his campaigns for universal conquest, and have also confronted Wonder Woman on their own, individually as well as with one another, as antagonists independent of their father.[1]
As the narrative continuity of Wonder Woman comics has been adjusted by different writers and artists through the years, various versions of Deimos, Phobos and Eris (with various personalities and physical appearances) have been presented. The trio's longest running incarnation, co-devised by writer Greg Potter and writer/artist George Pérez, was as grim classical deities with gruesome features, clad in fantastical Greco-Roman armor. In DC Comics' current post-Rebirth continuity, they are presented as more human figures with more contemporary personalities.
Several other of Ares' progeny – Eros, Harmonia, Hippolyta "Lyta" Milton and the Crow Children – have featured in the Wonder Woman mythos at various points in its history. Of these, only Eros has spanned multiple continuities, appearing in the Bronze Age, Modern Age, New 52 and post-Rebirth eras. Harmonia, Lyta Milton and the Crow Children are all specific to the post-Crisis period of DC's Modern Age continuity, and have not appeared outside of it.
^Beatty, Scott (2003). Wonder Woman: The Ultimate Guide to the Amazon Princess. DK Publishing Inc. p. 132. ISBN 978-0789496164.
symbols. Ares (/ˈɛəriːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἄρης, Árēs [árɛːs]) is the Greek god of war and courage. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and...
he is described as one of the childrenof Aphrodite and Ares and, with some of his siblings, was one of the Erotes, a group of winged love gods. He is...
is generally a son ofAres by Enyo[citation needed] and also a byname ofAres the god of war. Though Enyalius as a by-name ofAres is the most accepted...
the first Amazon queen, is the offspring of a romance between Ares the god of war and the nymph Harmonia of the Akmonian Wood, and as such a demigoddess...
the advances of others, or the avenger of unrequited love. He is one of the Erotes. Anteros was the son ofAres and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, given...
the son ofAres and the naiad Bistonis. He was the brother of Dryas. Tereus was the husband of the Athenian princess Procne and the father of Itys. When...
those who scorned love and the advances of others, and was the avenger of unrequited love. Anteros was the son ofAres and Aphrodite in Greek mythology, and...
drawn into a plot engineered by the ChildrenofAres—Deimos, Phobos—and Eris (Ares' sister) to merge Gotham City with Ares' throne capital, the Aeropagus....
mythology: Eurytion, the king of Phthia. Eurytion, a Centaur of Arcadia who demanded to marry the daughter of Dexamenus of Olenus, either Mnesimache or...
the son of the god Ares, who was associated with Thrace. Oeagrus and the Muse Calliope or Clio[citation needed] or Polymnia were the parents of Orpheus...
Ἰξίονος means 'strong native') was king of the Lapiths, the most ancient tribe of Thessaly. Ixion was the son ofAres, or Leonteus, or Antion and Perimele...
Hippolytē), was a daughter ofAres and Otrera, queen of the Amazons, and a sister of Antiope and Melanippe. She wore her father Ares' zoster, the Greek word...
was a king of the Lapiths (or the Phlegyans). Phlegyas was the son ofAres and Chryse, daughter of Halmus, or of Dotis. He was the brother of Ixion, another...
Oenomaus (also Oenamaus; Greek: Οἰνόμαος, Oinómaos) of Pisa, was the father of Hippodamia and the son ofAres. His name Oinomaos denotes a wine man. Oenomaeus'...
account, she is the daughter ofAres and Aphrodite. By another account, Harmonia was from Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and Electra, her brother...
Calydonian prince as the son of Althaea and the vintner King Oeneus or according to some, of the god Ares. He was the brother of Deianeira, Toxeus, Clymenus...
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