Deimos- Greek SpiritSpirit

The War Chariot

Deimos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, brother of Phobos and Harmonia. Hesiod names him in the Theogony among the children of war and love. The twins — Terror and Panic — served as their father's constant attendants, yoking his chariot horses and riding with him into every conflict. Eris, goddess of discord, often accompanied them, and together this retinue descended upon the battlefield to feed the slaughter. Other accounts made the brothers Ares's horses rather than his sons, so closely were they bound to the war chariot.

When word reached Ares that his son Ascalaphus had fallen at Troy, the war god roared and struck his thighs in grief. He turned to Deimos and Phobos and ordered them to yoke the horses — he would ride to Troy and avenge his boy, defying Zeus's command that no god enter the battle. It took Athena to stop him, wrestling the helmet from his head and the shield from his arm.

On the Shield and in the Field

Homer placed Deimos and Phobos on Agamemnon's great shield alongside the Gorgon's face — the king of Mycenae carried terror wrought in bronze into battle before Troy. In the Shield of Heracles, attributed to Hesiod, the brothers appear in the fighting itself. Ares charged at Heracles with his spear, but the hero struck the war god on the thigh beneath the rim of his shield. Ares fell in the dust. Deimos and Phobos drove their chariot to where he lay, lifted their father from the ground, and bore him to Olympus.

In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Zeus armed both brothers for the war against Typhon — Deimos received thunder and Phobos lightning, the weapons of the sky-god himself. They drove their chariot against Typhon beside the other gods, thunder and lightning in their hands.