Ares: The Complete Story of the Feared and Misunderstood God of War | Greek Mythology for Sleep

Mythology And Folklore For Sleep · Aug 12, 2026 · 2h 4m

A slow, quiet retelling of the story of Ares, told from the beginning and made for falling asleep to.The whole story of the god nobody wanted around, at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.He was the god of war in a culture that fought constantly and still didn't like him. His own father is on record saying he was the most hateful of all the gods. There's a version of war that the Greeks respected — strategy, defence, the sensible kind — and it belonged to somebody else entirely. What Ares got was the other part: the…