Phorus
Φύβος
(Φύβος), Latin Metus, the personification of fear, is described as a son of Ares and Cvthereia, a brother of Deimos, and is one of the ordinary companions of Ares. (Hom. Il. 11.37, 13.299, 15.119; Hes. Hes. Th. 934.) Phobus was represented on the shield of Agamemnon, on the chest of Cypsellls, with the head of a lion. (Paus. 5.19.1.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.