Personification

Deimos

Δεῖμος

Roman: Formido

Overview

Personification of terror and dread in battle.

Olympian descendants

Shield

Son of Ares and Aphrodite.

No children recorded.

Beyond Antiquity

Deimos still appears in the modern world through language, science, medicine, astronomy or culture.

Today: The smaller and outer moon of Mars.

Deimos was named for the mythological personification of dread or terror, traditionally a son of Ares and brother of Phobos.