Greeks & Romans (Gods)

Question 1

Zeus/Jupiter

Answer 1

King god, lightning and thunder

Question 2

Hera/Juno

Answer 2

Wife of Zeus, goddess of marriage

Question 3

Poseidon/Neptune

Answer 3

God of the sea and earthquakes

Question 4

Aphrodite/Venus

Answer 4

Goddess of love and sexuality

Question 5

Eros/Cupid

Answer 5

Aphrodite’s son, god of sexual desire, makes people fall in love

Question 6

Ares/Mars

Answer 6

God of war and agriculture

Question 7

Athena/Minerva

Answer 7

Goddess of wisdom and skill of warfare and handicrafts.

Associated with an owl.

Question 8

Hephaestus/Vulcan

Answer 8

God of metal work

Question 9

Artemis/Diana

Answer 9

Goddess of hunting, chastity.

Forests and hills, the moon, archery.

Question 10

Apollo

Answer 10

God of music, prophecy, intellect.

Poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine, sun, light, and knowledge.

Question 11

Muses

Answer 11

Nine goddesses of inspiration.

Question 12

Hermes/Mercury

Answer 12

Messenger god, god of traveller’s and thieves.

Trade, sports, trickster.

Question 13

Iris

Answer 13

Goddess of the rainbow

Question 14

Demeter/Ceres

Answer 14

Goddess of agriculture

Question 15

Dionysus/Bacchus

Answer 15

God of wine

Question 16

Hades/Pluto

Answer 16

God of the underworld

Question 17

Agamemnon

Answer 17

Leader of the expedition, “most kingly” - assassinated in his bath by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover when he returned home.

Question 18

Achilles

Answer 18

Son of Peleus (a mortal) and Thetis (a sea-nymph). Invulnerable except for his heel where he was held to be dipped in the river Styx, eventually killed by an aroma to the foot.

Question 19

Ajax

Answer 19

Went mad after Achilles armor was awarded to Odysseus, committed suicide.

Question 20

Menelaus

Answer 20

Brother of Agamemnon, husband of Helen.

Question 21

Nester

Answer 21

Oldest of the Greeks, always gave wise counsel.

Question 22

Aeneas

Answer 22

Son of Aphrodite and mortal Anchises, founded Rome.

Question 23

Hector

Answer 23

Son of Priam, leading Trojan warrior, his death = the climax of Iliad (foreshadowing the fall of the city and Achilles imitant death).

Question 24

Paris

Answer 24

Son of Priam. His abduction of Hellen, wife of Menelaus, caused the war.

Question 25

Priam

Answer 25

King of Troy. He ransomed the body of his son Hector from Achilles, and died when the city fell.

Question 26

Cassandra

Answer 26

Daughter of Priam, predicted the Trojan war but was not believed.