Gods

Question 0

How is Zeus usually portrayed?

Answer 0

Holding a thunderbolt and sitting on a throne with a crown and a sceptre

Question 1

What are the roles and responsibilities of Zeus?

Answer 1

• King of the gods
• Weather (lightning and thunder)
• Justice
• Protection of foreign travellers

Question 2

What are the roles and responsibilities of Hera?

Answer 2

• Queen of the gods
• Wife of Zeus
• Goddess of marriage

Question 3

How is Hera usually portrayed?

Answer 3

She is usually a royal figure, wearing a crown and a long dress

Question 4

What are the roles and responsibilities of Demeter?

Answer 4

• Goddess of crops
• Role model of agriculture
  (Her daughter, Persephone was abducted by Hades)

Question 5

How is Demeter usually portrayed?

Answer 5

Pictured alongside flowers, fruit, and grain.

Question 6

What are the roles and responsibilities of Poseidon?

Answer 6

• God of the sea
• God of horses
• God of earthquakes

Question 7

How is Poseidon usually portrayed?

Answer 7

Depicted alongside dolphins, holding his trident that shakes the earth

Question 8

What are the roles and responsibilities of Hephaistos?

Answer 8

• God of metal-working

- God of fire

Question 9

How is Hephaistos usually portrayed?

Answer 9

Believed to live in volcanoes, seen with weapons and jewellery he had made as he was a blacksmith. Usually depicted as ugly, and considered lame and unpopular with an unhappy marriage to Aphrodite.

Question 10

What are the roles and responsibilities of Apollo?

Answer 10

• God of music, art, education, medicine, disease, prophecy, sun, archery

Also known as Pheobus

Question 11

How is Apollo usually portrayed?

Answer 11

Handsome, young, usually holding a lyre or quiver of arrows

Question 12

How is Artemis usually portrayed?

Answer 12

• Goddess of hunting, childbirth, childhood, moon

Twin sister of Apollo, also known as Phoebe

Question 13

How is Artemis usually portrayed?

Answer 13

With a bow and arrow and wild animals beside her, youthful, with a short dress

Question 14

What are the roles and responsibilities of Athene?

Answer 14

• Goddess of tactical warfare, wisdom, weaving, handicrafts

Founded Athens

Question 15

How is Athene usually portrayed?

Answer 15

• Sacred owl
• Armour and weapons
• Special cape
• Aegis made of goat skin and fringed with images of snakes
• Picture of gorgon head in centre

Question 16

What are the roles and responsibilities of Aphrodite?

Answer 16

• Goddess of love

Married to Hephaistos, her son Eros fired arrows into people’s hearts the make them fall in love

Question 17

How is Aphrodite usually portrayed?

Answer 17

With a sea shell as she is supposedly born from the sea of Cyprus (sacred island). Also sometimes seen with Eros.

Question 18

What are the roles and responsibilities of Ares?

Answer 18

• God of war and destruction

Military leaders would pray to him for help during battle

Question 19

How is Ares usually portrayed?

Answer 19

Wearing full armour

Question 20

What are the roles and responsibilities of Hermes?

Answer 20

• Messenger of the gods

- Protected the traders that travelled widely across the Greek world

Question 21

How is Hermes usually portrayed?

Answer 21

Depicted with winged sandals, a winged helmet, and a special wand

Question 22

What are the roles and responsibilities of Dionysos?

Answer 22

• God of wine, theatre, partying, growth, fertility

Question 23

How is Dionysos usually portrayed?

Answer 23

Depicted with vines and ivy, wine and symbols of growth. Maenads (female followers who sang and danced in praise) and satyrs (bushy tails, pointed ears, snubbed noses, half man half animal creatures).