Phobos and Deimos: Children of Ares

Catalogue ID: 02-olympian-gods/084-phobos-deimos-ares-children-hesiodic

Cycle: Olympian gods — Ares / personified war-terrors

Version line: Hesiodic / Homeric — Fear and Terror as Ares’s sons and attendants

Sources: Hesiod, *Theogony* 933–937; Homer, *Iliad* 4.439–440, 13.299–300, 15.119–120

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Characters

Aphrodite — mother in Hesiod’s line
Ares — father; war-god they attend
Deimos — Terror / Rout; companion in the yoke and the charge
Harmonia — sister (Hesiod); later bride of Cadmus (cross-ref 03/192)
Philotes — related war-figures sometimes named beside them in battle scenes
Phobos — Fear; drives panic among fighters

Places

Olympus — genealogical seat
Trojan battlefield — chief narrative stage of their attendance

Themes

Narrative

Hesiod names Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror/Rout) among the children Aphrodite bears to Ares, together with Harmonia. In the *Iliad* the pair attend Ares into battle: they yoke his horses, shake the ranks, and embody the panic that breaks shield-walls. They are not independent cult heroes in Homer but extensions of the war-god’s presence—named so that dread has genealogy and company. Catalogue Phobos and Deimos as Olympian war-personifications: sons (and henchmen) of Ares, siblings of Harmonia, agents of rout on the Trojan plain and wherever Ares walks.