gods/doddesses

Question 1

Uranus

Answer 1

The first one, Cronos’ father killed by his sun, prophesiedthat his son would also be killed by one of his children

Question 2

Cronos

Answer 2

Father of Gods, gave his name to time, married Rhea, swallows Hestia, Demeter,and Hera

Question 3

Rhea

Answer 3

Goddess of earth, saved Zeus from cronos, helped zeuspreparedrink that forced cronos to vomit up his other children

Question 4

Zeus

Answer 4

Father-god, God of the sky.

Question 5

Hera

Answer 5

Mother-goddess, tricked by zeus into marriage

Question 6

poseiden

Answer 6

god of the seas/ river and lakes #water

Question 7

Hades

Answer 7

God of the under world/ dead

Question 8

Demeter

Answer 8

Goddess of all useful fruits, grasses, and grains

Question 9

Persephone

Answer 9

Demeter’s daughter, unhappily married to Hades

Question 10

Hephaestus

Answer 10

god of goldsmiths, jewelers, blacksmiths ,masons and carpenters, son of Zeus and Hera, broke his leg when Zeus threw him over the walls of Olympus, wore a golden leg iron.

Question 11

Athene

Answer 11

Goddess of wisdom, Battle goddess, believed to have been born from Zeus’ head

Question 12

Aphrodite

Answer 12

Goddess of Love, married unhappily to Hephaestus

Question 13

Ares

Answer 13

Tall, handsome, cruel, loved fighting for its own sake, flirted with Aphrodite, and no manners, no learning, and the worst taste.

Question 14

Apollo

Answer 14

God of music, poetry, medicine, archery, and young unmarried men. Son of Zeus and Leto

Question 15

Artemis

Answer 15

Goddess of hunting and of unmarried girls, of any mortal happened to see her without clothes, she used to change him into a stag and hunt him to death.

Question 16

Daphne

Answer 16

Chased by Apollo, changed into a laurel tree.

Question 17

Hermes

Answer 17

God of merchants, bankers, thieves, fortune-tellers, and heralds, born in Arcadia, son of Zeus and Maia, invented the alphabet.

Question 18

Hestia

Answer 18

Goddess of the home

Question 19

Dionysus

Answer 19

Son of Zeus and Semele, (mortal woman), Hestia offered him her seat on the council (thirteen Olympians would have been an unlucky number) just to keep the peace.

Question 20

Heracles

Answer 20

Olympian porter

Question 21

Eris

Answer 21

Goddess of quarrells

Question 22

Iris

Answer 22

Hera’s messenger who used to run along the rainbow.

Question 23

Nemesis

Answer 23

Kept a list for the Olympians of proud mortals due to be punished

Question 24

Hebe

Answer 24

Goddess of youth who married Heracles.

Question 25

Ganymede

Answer 25

Zeus’s handsome, young cup bearer

Question 26

Three Fates

Answer 26

(Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos) Oldest goddesses in existence, too old for anybody to remember where they came from. The fates decided how long each mortal should live: spinning a linen thread, to measure exactly so many;; inches and feet for months and years, and then snipping it off with a pair of shears. They also know, but seldom revealed, what would be the fate of each Olympian God.

Question 27

Cyclopes

Answer 27

Zeus’s ugly cousins, freed by him to help defeat the titans

Question 28

Hundred-handed ones

Answer 28

Zues’s ugly cousins, freed by him to help defeat the Titans.

Question 29

Titans

Answer 29

Cronos’s half brothers, huge, twisted, dark creatures taller than trees, whom he kept pent up in the maintains until there was fighting to be done.

Question 30

Pan

Answer 30

Young goat-got. He said that it was his shout that made the Titans flee. That is where we get the word panic

Question 31

Olympians

Answer 31

The twelve most important gods and goddesses of ancient Greece. All members of he same family.

Question 32

Mount Olympus

Answer 32

The highest mountain in Greece.