greek/roman gods

Question 0

Hera/ Juno

Answer 0

queen of gods, marriage and child-birth

often jealous, hates Troy, peacock is her bird(eyes of argus), doesn’t get apple

Question 1

Zeus/ Jupiter, Jove

Answer 1

king of gods

thunderbolt, many affairs, justice

Question 2

Demeter/ Ceres

Answer 2

fertile earth, grain

loves daughter Persephone, fights to get her back for 6 months

Question 3

Poseidon/ Neptune

Answer 3

ocean

married to Amphitrite, affairs with Scylla and medusa

Question 4

Hades/ Pluto

Answer 4

underworld

implacable, never changes mind, steals Persephone

Question 5

Apollo/ Apollo

Answer 5

sun, music, prophecy, healing, illness

loves daphne–laurel, loves Cassandra, jealous of Orion

Question 6

Artemis/ Diana

Answer 6

moon, hunt

punishes Acteon, loves and kills Orion, saves Iphigenia

Question 7

Athena(Pallas)/ Minerva

Answer 7

wisdom, military, intelligence

punishes Arachne, blinds Tiresias, owl, patron goddess of Athens-gives olive tree

Question 8

Ares/ Mars

Answer 8

war

frequently loses, rash and brutal, accompanied by disorder and strife son of Zeus and Hera, lover of Aphrodite

Question 9

Aphrodite/ Venus

Answer 9

love

married to Hephaestus, lover of Area, reward Pygmalion

Question 10

Atlas/ Atlas

Answer 10

Titan

holds the world aloft, Theseus tricks him

Question 11

Cronus/ Saturn

Answer 11

Titan lord, father to Zeus

eats his children, overthrew his father

Question 12

Dionysus/ Bacchus

Answer 12

wine, revelry

effeminate youth, accompanied by bacchantes was, represent emotion and joy

Question 13

Eris

Answer 13

discord

throws golden apple, accompanies Area

Question 14

Eros/ Cupid

Answer 14

Love 
loves psyche(soul), has arrows that create or block love

Question 15

Hermes/ Mercury

Answer 15

messenger of the gods, commerce, traveler

trickster God, wand gives sleep, winged sandals

Question 16

Hephaestus/ Vulcan

Answer 16

fire, metal working 
lame god(defend mom), married to Aphrodite, son of Zeus and Hera

Question 17

Persephone/ Proserpine

Answer 17

spring

daughter of Demeter, married to hades, called Hecate when she is with hades

Question 18

Prometheus/ Prometheus

Answer 18

titan

father to man, gave fire to mankind, punished by eagle that eats his liver, eventually freed

Question 19

Gaea

Answer 19

element

the earth

Question 20

Uranus

Answer 20

element

the sky, husband of Gaea, fathers Titans, swallows children, supplanted by son Cronus

Question 21

Pontus

Answer 21

element

the harmonious sea with its sterile waves

Question 22

Nereus

Answer 22

element

the old man in the sea, trident

Question 23

Rhea

Answer 23

Titan

marries Cronus, gives birth to 6 gods

Question 24

Helios

Answer 24

Titan | the Sun, father to Phaeton

Question 25

Empimetheus

Answer 25

Titan | friend to man, brother of Prometheus, marries pandora

Question 26

Acteon

Answer 26

hunter who saw Artemis naked, turned into stag, killed by his own dogs

Question 27

Amphitrite

Answer 27

wife of Poseidon, jealous

Question 28

Arachne

Answer 28

wonderful weaver who compared self to Athena, vied in his weaving contest Athena turned her into a spider to weave forever

Question 29

Argus

Answer 29

Hera's servant with 100 eyes, set to guard callisto(Zeus's lover turned into bear) Hermes put his eyes to sleep and beheaded him, Hera put his eyes on the tail of peacock

Question 30

Callisto

Answer 30

lover of Zeus, he turned her into a bear to hide her from Hera, eventually she and her son were placed into heaven as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor

Question 31

Cassandra

Answer 31

loved by Apollo, he gives gift of prophecy but takes away her power to be believed

Question 32

daphne

Answer 32

loved by Apollo, he chases her and she becomes a laurel tree, he always wears a laurel wreath in her honor

Question 33

Jason

Answer 33

hero who wins the Golden Fleece, married madea

Question 34

Madea

Answer 34

married Jason, helps win the fleece, kills everyone when Jason leaves her

Question 35

Medusa

Answer 35

seduced by Poseidon in temple of Athena, Athena turns her hair into snakes

Question 36

Niobe

Answer 36

brags about her 14 children, Apollo and Artemis kills them all, she cries until she turns to stone and still cries

Question 37

Oedipus

Answer 37

son of Laius and Jocasta of Thebes, marries mother and kills father, blinds self when he finds out, father of polynices, eteocles, Antigone and ismene

Question 38

Orion

Answer 38

lover of Artemis, she mistakenly kills him, he becomes a constellation, great hunter

Question 39

Scylla

Answer 39

lover of Poseidon, turned into sea monster by Amphitrite

Question 40

Tiresias

Answer 40

sees Athena naked, she blinds him, gives him gift of sight into the future because his sin was inadvertent

Question 41

pandora

Answer 41

wife given by gods to Epimetheus, out of curiosity she looks in the the box he keeps hidden, all the ills and evils of the world are let loose upon humanity, eventually she opens the box all the way to let out hope, which always flies more slowly