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It seems to be a standard, modern-day practice to lessen all the gods of the old pantheons with their most basic abstract ideas: Ares symbolizes warfare; Demeter, agriculture; Aphrodite, love; etc. In the process, these people lose any personality with that they may have been imbued over millennia of tales. A part of most studies of the gods is usually reserved for the unquestionably valuable etymology of the deity's name, but more often than not, this etymology reveals bit more than the actual fact that they had been associated with the abstract ideas since forever. Still, modern viewers understand the ancient greek language deities had "personalities" more complex than the abstract ideas they displayed. These "personalities" were elaborated after to explain human relationships between ideas, such as in the case of Ares's and Aphrodite's child Harmonia, who always implemented in her father's dangerous wake, explaining the brutal "detoxification" electricity of warfare within old Greece's complex politics landscape. It really is in this same line of thought that abstract people, such as Harmonia and Nike (Win), find their place in ancient greek language mythology, especially following the writings of Homer in the 8th century BCE.
