Euripedes circa 450 b. c. wrote that Zeus’ son Ares (god of war) was also known as Thrax, to the Norse known as Tyr, he was Japheth’s son Tiras (see Genesis 10), Thrax whom the Thracians said was a son of their god Sabazios (liberty Zios or Dios), known to the Greeks as Zeus or Japetus.