In Shield of Herakles, Phobos and Deimos accompany Ares into battle and remove him from the field once he is injured by Herakles.

In the Iliad, he accompanied his father, Ares, into battle along with the Goddess of Discord Eris and his twin brother Phobos (fear). He mainly appears in an assistant role to his father who causes disorder in armies and does not appear as an independent figure in mythology. The god’s Roman equivalent was Formido or Metus.ĭeimos is the namesake for the smaller of Mars’ two moons, which was named by Asaph Hall.ĭeimos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite. Deimos served to represent the feelings of dread and terror that befell those before a battle, while Phobos personified feelings of fear and panic in the midst of battle. He was a son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the twin brother of Phobos. Also Cytherea bare to Ares the shield-piercer Panic and Fear, terrible gods who drive in disorder the close ranks of men in numbing war, with the help of Ares, sacker of towns Hesiod Theogonyĭeimos /ˈdaɪmɒs/ (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, pronounced, meaning “dread”) is the personal god of dread and terror in Greek mythology.

Deimos god of war