Short answers, pulled from the story.
The name Ares appears in Mycenaean Linear B tablets as the syllabic form a-re during the Bronze Age. Georg Autenrieth connected the word to the Greek term arē meaning bane or ruin while Walter Burkert described it as an ancient abstract noun for a throng of battle.
Pausanias recorded an altar dedicated to Ares at Olympia during the second century AD and noted that Athenian agora housed a temple that moved under Augustus' reign around 2 AD. Numismatist M. Jessop Price observed that Ares had no important cult in Sparta despite representing their traditional character since he never appeared on Spartan coins.
Homer's Iliad portrays Ares as frequently humiliated when he appears in battle scenes with Zeus expressing recurring Greek revulsion toward the god. This pattern of humiliation contrasts sharply with strategic warfare embodied by his sister Athena who overpowered him by striking with a boulder.
Herodotus identified a Thracian god as Ares among three otherwise unnamed deities worshipped by commoners while the Scythians honored an indigenous form of Greek Ares ranked beneath Tabiti, Api, and Papaios. His cult object was iron sword used in blood-sacrifices or ritual killings of cattle, horses, and one in every hundred human war-captives.
The union of Ares and Aphrodite created gods Eros, Anteros, Phobos, Deimos, and Harmonia while other versions included Alcippe as daughter. List includes Meleager, Sinope, Solymus sometimes children Ares sometimes given other fathers alongside Odomantus, Edonus, Biston, Terpsichore appearing various sources from eighth century BC through twelfth century AD.