Mars Imprisoned

This story of the imprisonment of Mars (Ares) comes from a public domain, old translation, by Samuel Butler, of Homer's Iliad 5.385-91.

Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze. Mars would have then perished had not fair Eeriboea, stepmother to the sons of Aloeus, told Mercury, who stole him away when he was already well-nigh worn out by the severity of his bondage.

Iliad 5