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Phobos (Ancient Greek: Φόβος, lit. '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]
Compared to the Earth's Moon, the moons Phobos and Deimos are small. Phobos has a diameter of 22.2 km (13.8 mi) and a mass of 1.08 × 10 16 kg, while Deimos measures 12.6 km (7.8 mi) across, with a mass of 1.5 × 10 15 kg.
Deimos and Phobos Δεῖμος καὶ Φόβος Δεῖμος καὶ Φόβος Deîmos kaì Phóbos "Horror and Fear" Deimos and Phobos, the moons of Mars, are named after the sons of the Greek god Ares (Roman Mars): Deimos "horror" [8] and Phobos "fear". [9] Δέσποτα, μέμνεο τῶν Ἀθηναίων. Déspota, mémneo tôn ...
Harper's Bible Dictionary: 1952 Madeleine S. and J. Lane Miller The New Bible Dictionary: 1962 J. D. Douglas Second Edition 1982, Third Edition 1996 Dictionary of the Bible: 1965 John L. McKenzie, SJ [clarification needed] The New Westminster Dictionary of the Bible: 1970 Henry Snyder Gehman LDS Bible Dictionary: 1979 Harper's Bible Dictionary ...
In the Shield of Herakles, Phobos and Deimos accompany Ares into battle and remove him from the field once Herakles injures him. [6] The poet Antimachus, in a misrepresentation of Homer's account, portrays Deimos and Phobos as the horses of Ares. [7] In Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Zeus arms Phobos with lightning and Deimos with thunder to frighten ...
The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (DDD) is an academic reference work edited by Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking and Pieter W. van der Horst which contains academic articles on the named gods, angels, and demons in the books of the Hebrew Bible, Septuagint and Apocrypha, as well as the New Testament and patristic literature.
The full text of Index:A Hebrew and English Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs).djvu at Wikisource.; Concordance and Dictionary – developed by ALHATORAH.ORG, utilizing modified versions of: J. Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (Cincinnati, 1890); F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1906); and the work of D. Troidl ...
The article had DAY-mus. This is an attempt at the classical Greek pronunciation; the English equivalent is DYE-mus or perhaps DEE-mus. Most refs, including Geyley's 1893 (1911, 1939) Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art and Zimmerman's 1964 Dictionary of Classical Mythology have the former; a few, such as Tripp's Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology have the latter.