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Speech 5
Speech 5
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God o war, cruelty, hatred, ciil order, ear, courage, and bloodshed. "on o #eus and$era.I hate all o
the Gods, including my own ather #eus.. $e was negligent. %nce during myinancy I had been
abducted by two giants, &nown as the Aloadai, and they had tra''ed me in agigantic bronze (ar, neer to
be released. $era decided to moe me somewhere else saer, thusshe chose )ria'us, who trained and
raised me until I was a ully grown man. They say that I amthe least aored god among all gods
because o my brutal nature. They see me illed with rageand lust or blood. But I am not all eil. I loe
ighting or the sa&e o bloodshed, but alsoighting to sae or aenge someone.The s&y dar&ens as I
enter the battle* my merciless warrior s'irit ma&es me thirsty or blood. $oweer, Athena and I are
com'letely dierent rom each other. "he is &nown to be goodin war with her tactics and strategies,
but I strongly disagree. I am the best in the ields o battlethan my sister. I, the god o war, don’t ear
anyone. +y braery and strength will stri&e ear intothe hearts o my enemies including you, mortals.
Arriing on the battleield with a chariot 'ulled by our iery horses, thousands o mortals are
beheaded as I call or blood and death!I am &nown to be the braest among all* bloodshed runs into
my hands with rage andwrath among eeryone.nder my 'ower I command eeryone to eel the wrath
and rage o thisworld and e-tinguished eeryone with their bare hands. I loe seeing mortals &ill each
other. AmI so cruel? I doubt you don’t &now my story mortals.! Detested by all other gods?! hat
wouldyou eel when you get detested by your own 'arents? Agony is running into blood and soul as
Iaenge or mysel, slaying demons, and destroying /roisos as I gain a 'lace gien by a eryim'ortant
%lym'ian god. I guess you thin& I’m totally in loe with war? Don’t you mortals? But I had a
orbiddenloe with A'hrodite, goddess o loe and beauty, who is married to $e'haestus, my own
brother.It was long beore when A'hrodite snea& around me when $e'haestus wor&ed his orge
ma&ingwea'ons or the Gods late into night as we made loe, but one night A'hrodite too& me to her
own bed. In the dee' coer o the orest, $elios, the "un, rose the ne-t morning and 'eered
intoA'hrodite’ room and told $e'haestus what he saw. 0ull o shame in the room as we get tra''ed by my
own disabled brother who dragged usna&ed beore o all the gods laughing. I, who is considered
cunning, got tra''ed with my own brother? But once reed with the chains and shamed beore all the
gods we se'arate or a while.Ater the long wait, $e'haestus died that allowed us to ind our way bac&
to each other andcarried on an aair that gies us our ie children but we stayed together, not
husband and wie, but as riends and loers, two sides o the same coin, or the rest o time.