Boxing match between Ares and Hermes

 Boxing match between Ares and Hermes / Tanagra
 

Ares and Hermes

Ares, the great Olympian god of war, battlelust and manliness, and Hermes the great Olympian god of herds, travel, trade, language, athletics, and thievery. 
                         

Tanagra, the Naiad nymph

        
                                     Ares and Hermes fell in love with Tanagra, the Naiad nymph of the spring well or fountain, and the daughter of river god Asopus and Metope.  For Tanagra, Ares and Hermes compete over in a boxing match.  Hermes won the contest and lay with Tanagra. Her name was given to the town in Baeotia, where Hermes carried her off. Later Tanagra got married to Pomandros.


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