Ares is the Greek god of war and violence, equivalent of the Roman god Mars.

Ares or ARES may also refer to:

Technology

  • Ares (rocket), various proposed and existing launch vehicles and missiles
  • Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System, a DARPA concept for a robotic VTOL vehicle
  • Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey, a robotic spacecraft proposed to fly in the Martian atmosphere
  • Atmospheric Reentry Experimental Spaceplane, a French spaceplane concept from 2009
  • Augmented Reality Sandtable, an interactive digital sand table used by the U.S. military for soldier training
  • Scaled Composites ARES, a demonstrator aircraft built by the company Scaled Composites
  • Advanced Rail Energy Storage, a new energy storage system utilizing gravitational potential energy
  • ares, a multi-system video game console emulator derived from higan
  • Ares, an Armoured Personnel Carrier variant of the General Dynamics Ajax being developed for the British Army
  • ARES, a component of Proteus Design Suite
  • Amateur Radio Emergency Service, a corps of volunteer emergency radio operators

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Ares (film), a 2016 French dystopian film
  • Ares, a film project developed by American director Robert Zemeckis
  • Tron: Ares, a 2025 American science fiction action film

Literature

Fantasy fiction

  • Ares (comic book), a 2006 Marvel Comics comic book series
  • Ares (DC Comics), the Greek god as he appears in DC Comics
  • Ares (manhwa), a Korean comic about a group of mercenaries
  • Ares (Marvel Comics), the Greek god as he appears in Marvel Comics
  • Ares, a bat in The Underland Chronicles

Science fiction

  • Ares (magazine), a science fiction wargame magazine
  • Ares, a large interplanetary spacecraft in the novel Red Mars in the Mars trilogy series
  • Ares, a NASA spaceflight program in the 2011 novel The Martian and the film adaptation

Music

  • Ares (Salt the Wound album), 2009
  • Ares (Arcángel album), 2018
  • Ares, a 2008 song from Intimacy by Bloc Party
  • "Ares", a 2018 song by KSI

Sculpture

  • Ares Borghese, a Roman marble sculpture
  • Ludovisi Ares, a Roman marble sculpture

Television

  • Ares (Hercules and Xena), the Greek god as portrayed on the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess
  • "Ares" (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys), an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
  • Ares (TV series), a Dutch Netflix original series
  • Ares IV, a spacecraft in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "One Small Step"
  • Tekfur Ares, a character in the Turkish TV series Diriliş: Ertuğrul

Video games

  • Ares (video game)
  • A.R.E.S.: Extinction Agenda, side-scrolling action platform game

People

  • Ares (musician), Norwegian extreme metal musician
  • Ares (wrestler), professional wrestler
  • Ares Schwager, the nickname/stagename of the American musician and guitarist Brian Schwager
  • Ares Tavolazzi, Italian bass player and jazz musician
  • Donna Ares, the stage name of Bosniak folk singer Azra Kolaković
  • Malcom Adu Ares, Spanish footballer
  • Richard Arès, French Canadian humanist and writer
  • Ares or Aris Velouchiotis, nom de guerre of Athanasios Klaras (1905-1945), leader of the Greek resistance during World War II

Places

Earth

  • Arès, a town at the north of Arcachon Bay in France
  • Arês, Rio Grande do Norte, a municipality in Brazil
  • Ares, Spain, a municipality
  • Ares Cliff, on the east side of Alexander Island in Antarctica
  • Ares del Maestrat, a town in Alt Maestrat, Spain
  • Col d'Ares, a Pyrenees mountain pass on the border between France and Spain
  • Col des Ares, a mountain pass in Haute-Garonne in southwest France
  • Muela de Ares, a mountain in the province of Castellón, Spain
  • "Rock of Ares", a rock outcropping site in Greece known as the Areopagus

Mars

  • Ares Vallis, an outflow channel in the Oxia Palus quadrangle on Mars
  • Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey, a proposed Mars aircraft

Other uses

  • L'Alliance républicaine, écologique et sociale, a French coalition of parties
  • ARES Incorporated, a firearm and weapon system manufacturer
  • Ares Management, a global alternative asset manager
  • Aciéries Rodange Esch-Schifflange, a Luxembourgish company formed in 1994 from ARBED-Esch Schifflange and Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange
  • Armament Research Services, a consultancy company in the field of arms and munitions
  • Ares, plural of are, a unit of area (=100 m<sup>2</sup>)

See also

  • Ares in popular culture
  • AIRES
  • Aries (disambiguation)
  • Aris (disambiguation)
  • Mars (disambiguation)