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==Mythology== In [[Hesiod]]'s ''[[Theogony]]'', Phobos is the son of [[Ares]] and [[Aphrodite]], and the sibling of [[Deimos (deity)|Deimos]] and [[Harmonia]].<ref>Gantz, p. 80; [[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D901 933].</ref> He mainly appears in an assistant role to his father and causes disorder in battle.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} In the ''[[Iliad]]'', he accompanied his father into battle along with the goddess [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]] (discord) and his brother [[Deimos (deity)|Deimos]] (Dread). In Hesiod's ''[[Shield of Heracles|Shield of Herakles]]'', Phobos and Deimos accompany Ares into battle and remove him from the field once he is injured by [[Heracles|Herakles]].<ref>Hesiod, ''[[Shield of Heracles]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0128%3Acard%3D443 460]</ref> In [[Nonnus]]' ''[[Dionysiaca]]'', [[Zeus]] arms Phobos with lightning and Deimos with thunder to frighten [[Typhon]].<ref>[[Nonnus]], ''[[Dionysiaca]]'' 2.414</ref> Later in the work, Phobos and Deimos act as Ares's charioteers to battle the god [[Dionysus]] during his war against the [[India]]ns.<ref>Nonnus, ''Dionysiaca'', 29.364</ref> In the ''[[Seven Against Thebes]]'' by [[Aeschylus]], the seven warriors slaughter a bull over a black shield and then "...touching the bull's gore with their hands they swore an oath by Ares, by [[Enyo]], and by Rout [Phobos]".<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''[[Seven Against Thebes (play)|Seven Against Thebes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0014%3Acard%3D39 41]</ref> According to [[Stesichorus]], Ares's son, Kyknos, "...beheaded strangers who came along in order to build a temple to Phobos (fear) from the skulls."<ref>Stesichorus, Fragment 207</ref>
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