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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]
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
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 ...
Deimos (moon)#Named geological features Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of features on Phobos and Deimos .
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 ...
One report of the Stoic definitions of these passions appears in the treatise On Passions by Pseudo-Andronicus (trans. Long & Sedley, pg. 411, modified): Distress (lupē) Distress is an irrational contraction, or a fresh opinion that something bad is present, at which people think it right to be depressed. Fear (phobos)
Phobos (Greek for "fear") most commonly refers to: Phobos (moon), a moon of Mars; Phobos (mythology), the Greek god and personification of fear and panic;
In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phobetor (Ancient Greek: Φοβήτωρ; [1] 'Frightener' from Ancient Greek: φόβος, phobos, 'fear' 'panic'), [2] so called by men, or Icelos (Ancient Greek: Ἴκελος; 'Like'), [3] so called by the gods, is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep). He appeared in dreams "in the form of beast or bird or the ...