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Homer, ''Iliad'' 15. 119 ff:"So he [Ares] spoke, and ordered Deimos (Dread) and Phobos (Fear) to harness his horses, and himself got into his shining armour." | Homer, ''Iliad'' 15. 119 ff:"So he [Ares] spoke, and ordered Deimos (Dread) and Phobos (Fear) to harness his horses, and himself got into his shining armour." | ||
==Historical reference== | |||
According to [[Plutarch]], [[Alexander the Great]] offered sacrifices to Phobos on the eve of the [[Battle of Gaugamela]] (in all probability asking for Darius to be filled with fear). This was believed by [[Mary Renault]] to be part of Alexander's psychological warfare campaign against [[Darius III of Persia|Darius III]]. Darius fled from the field of Gaugamela, making Alexander's praying to Phobos seem successful as a tactic. | |||
Phobos was depicted on the chest of Cypselus on the shield of [[Agamemnon]].<ref>Chase, George H. "The Shield Devices of the Greeks." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Vol. 13. Cambridge: Harvard U, 1902. 65. Print.</ref> | |||