Phobos (mythology)

Phobos
Personification of fear
Possibly Phobos and Ares in Ares's chariot (510-530 BCE).
Abodes	Mount Olympus
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Parents	Ares and Aphrodite
Siblings	Erotes, Deimos, Phlegyas, Harmonia, Enyalios, Thrax, Oenomaus, and Amazons

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Phobos (Ancient Greek: Φόβος, lit. 'flight, fright',^[1] pronounced [pʰóbos], Latin: Phobus) is the god and personification of fear and panic in Greek mythology. Phobos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Deimos. He does not have a major role in mythology outside of being his father's attendant.^[2]

In Classical Greek mythology, Phobos exists as both the god of and personification of the fear brought by war.^[3]

His name is transliterated in Latin as Phobus, but his counterpart in Roman mythology is Pavor or Terror.^{[citation needed]}

^ Beekes, s.v. φέβομαι, p. 1559.
^ Hesiod, Theogony 933.
^ Webster, T. B. L. (1954-01-01). "Personification as a Mode of Greek Thought". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 17 (1–2): 10–21. doi:10.2307/750130. ISSN 0075-4390. JSTOR 750130. S2CID 195042211.