Panic
deity figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Shield of Heracles
Personification of battle-panic, depicted amid the shield's war imagery and later acting to rescue the wounded Ares.
Upon the shield Pursuit and Flight were wrought, and Tumult, and Panic, and Slaughter.
And Panic and Dread quickly drove his smooth-wheeled chariot and horses near him and lifted him from the wide-pathed earth into his richly-wrought car, and then straight lashed the horses and came to high Olympus.
Theogony
A terrible war-god, son of Ares and Aphrodite, who drives armies into disorder.
Also Cytherea bore to Ares the shield-piercer Panic and Fear, terrible gods who drive in disorder the close ranks of men in numbing war, with the help of Ares, sacker of towns;
Iliad
Personified spirit of battle-terror accompanying Ares onto the field.
These were inspired of Ares, but the others by Athena - and with them came Panic, Rout, and Strife whose fury never tires, sister and friend of murderous Ares, who, from being at first but low in stature, grows till she uprears her head to heaven, though her feet are still on earth.