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  2. Phobos (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    'flight, fright', [1] pronounced, 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]

  3. Personification - Wikipedia

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    Personification is the representation of a thing or abstraction as a person. It is, in other words, considered an embodiment or an incarnation. [ 1 ] In the arts , many things are commonly personified.

  4. Category:Personifications in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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  5. Eris (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Eris (Ancient Greek: Ἔρις, romanized: Eris, lit. 'Strife') is the goddess and personification of strife and discord, particularly in war, and in the Iliad (where she is the "sister" of Ares the god of war).

  6. Anthropomorphism - Wikipedia

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    Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification, is a well-established literary device from ancient times. The story of " The Hawk and the Nightingale " in Hesiod 's Works and Days preceded Aesop 's fables by centuries.

  7. Epiales - Wikipedia

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    Epiales was also known as Melas Oneiros (Black Dream). [1]"The words epialos, epiales and epioles denote (1) the feverish chill (2) the daimon who assaults sleepers. Homer and most writers have epioles with the e; the form in -os means something different, namely the feverish chill . . .

  8. Nyx - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, Nyx (/ n ɪ k s / NIX; [2] Ancient Greek: Νύξ Nýx, , "Night") [3] is the goddess and personification of the night. [4] In Hesiod's Theogony, she is the offspring of Chaos, and the mother of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Erebus (Darkness). By herself, she produces a brood of children which are mainly personifications of ...

  9. Time and fate deities - Wikipedia

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    Bangun Bangun (Suludnon mythology): the deity of universal time who regulates cosmic movements [2]; Patag'aes (Suludnon mythology): awaits until midnight then enters the house to have a conversation with the living infant; if he discovers someone is eavesdropping, he will choke the child to death; their conversation creates the fate of the child, on how long the child wants to live and how the ...