Enyo

Enyo was the goddess or personified spirit (daemon) of war. She was the female counterpart and close companion of the god Ares.

Residence: Mount Olympus
Symbols: Helmet and Torch
Parents: Zeus and Hera
Siblings: Aeacus, Angelos, Aphrodite, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Dionysus, Ilithyia, Enyo, Eris, Ersa, Hebe, Helen of Troy, Heracles, Hermes, Minos, Pandia, Persephone, Perseus, Rhadamanthus, the Graces, the Horae, the Litae, the Muses and the Moirae
Consort: Ares
Children: Enyalius
Roman equivalent: Bellona

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A bust of Bellona by Jean Cosyn, a 1697 victory celebration over a Brussels doorway. (c) Michel Wal

Enyo was closely identified with Eris, the goddess of strife. Indeed Homer does not appear to distinguish between the two goddesses.

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