Gods & Goddesses

Question 1

What are Zeus’ spheres of control?

Answer 1

• storms, weather, lightning
• upholder of order and justice
• god of kingship
• protects beggars

Question 2

Where is Zeus worshipped as providing over Agora, the political and commercial center of the city?

Answer 2

Argoraios

Question 3

Where is Zeus worshipped as the guardian of the city-state?

Answer 3

Polieus

Question 4

Where is Zeus worshipped as the guardian of the council?

Answer 4

Boulaios

Question 5

Where is Zeus worshipped as the guardian of individual households?

Answer 5

Herkeios

Question 6

Where is Zeus worshipped as the guardian of property?

Answer 6

Ktesios

Question 7

Where is Zeus worshipped as the averter of crisis?

Answer 7

Soter

Question 8

Who were Zeus’ mortal affairs?

Answer 8

Io, Europa, Danae, Leda

Question 9

Who are Poseidon’s parents? Brothers?

Answer 9

Cronus and Rhea
Zeus and Hades

Question 10

What is Poseidon the ruler of?

Answer 10

God of sea, earthquakes, and horses

Question 11

What is Hephaestus the god of?

Answer 11

God of blacksmiths, fire, and artisans

Question 12

Who was thrown out of Mt. Olympus and why?

Answer 12

Hephaestus- thrown out by Hera because he was crippled (had a limp) or by Zeus for siding with Hera during an argument

Question 13

What is Hermes the god of?

Answer 13

messenger of the gods, god of trickery and deception, abundance and prosperity, ingenuity, and magic

Question 14

What are some of the iconography of Hermes?

Answer 14

caduceus (messenger staff)
winged sandals
petasos (travelers cap)
the herm

Question 15

Next to Zeus, who is the most important/most complicated of the gods?

Answer 15

Apollo

Question 16

What are Apollo’s spheres of control?

Answer 16

archery, disease and healing, purification, prophecy, poetry and music, initiation, colonization, and the sun

Question 17

What are some of the iconography of Apollo?

Answer 17

depicted as young and beardless
represents ideal youthful, male beauty
bow, lyre, and laurel
portrayed from a distance

Question 18

What is Dionysus the god of?

Answer 18

God of wine and intoxication, ritual madness, the mask/theatre, fertility, afterlife

Question 19

Who were Dionysus’ followers?

Answer 19

satyrs, nymphs, maenads

Question 20

What are satyrs?

Answer 20

wild men with animalistic features. Known for their rampant sexuality

Question 21

What are maenads?

Answer 21

ecstatic female followers of Dionysus who would dismember humans/animals and eat them raw

Question 22

What are some of Dionysus’ iconography?

Answer 22

Wreathed in ivy and wearing animal skin
bears the thyrsus (wand wound with ivy and topped with pinecone)
chariot drawn by panthers
cult name Bakchos

Question 23

How Dionysus born?

Answer 23

“Born twice”- Hermes saved the fetus from his dead mother and he was sewn into Zeus’ thigh until he was born again

Question 24

What are Athena’s spheres of influenece?

Answer 24

domestic handicrafts, wisdom, warfare

Question 25

What are Athena's symbols?

Answer 25

olive tree and owl

Question 26

What are Athena's iconography?

Answer 26

masculine women armor and helmet spear and shield bears the aegis

Question 27

What are Artemis' spheres of influence?

Answer 27

hunting, female rites of passage, the moon

Question 28

What is Hestia the goddess of?

Answer 28

Goddess of hearth- never leaves the hearth of Olympus

Question 29

What is Hera the goddess of?

Answer 29

Queen of the gods, goddess of weddings and marriage

Question 30

Who were Hera's childern?

Answer 30

Ares, Eileithyia, Hebe

Question 31

What are the different origins of Aphrodite?

Answer 31

- Hesiod: sprang from the foam of around Uranos' severed genitals - Homer: daughter of Zeus and Dione - Greeks: came from Cyprus - Other: related to Eastern fertility goddesses Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte

Question 32

What is Demeter the goddess of?

Answer 32

Mother goddess and goddess of fertility

Question 33

What are some of Demeter's iconography?

Answer 33

Associated with her daughter Persephone