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Domain	God or Goddess
King of Gods
Queen of Gods and Marriage
God of the Sea
Messenger of the Gods
Goddess of Hearth and Home
Goddess of Wisdom
God of War and Vengeance
Goddess of Fertility and Agriculture
God of Sun and Healing
God of Fire and Forge
Goddess of the Hunt and Moon
Goddess of Love and Beauty
Other Major Gods
God of the Underworld
God of Wine

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Greek Gods Quiz

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Published: November 20th, 2007
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	PhilSandifer:	Sep 14th, 2008 at 15:11 GMT	18 points
	Dionysus is a bonus answer. Any others?

	Bob:	Sep 16th, 2008 at 00:57 GMT	16 points
	Hades is also a bonus answer.

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	EasilyConfused:	Sep 18th, 2008 at 19:24 GMT	13 points
	Re: Bob, Hercules was a Greek demi-god, but in any case, there were far, far more gods than the twelve Olympians.

	magister:	Sep 23rd, 2008 at 23:10 GMT	0 points
	@Bob and Daniel: Wouldn't Heracles be considered a Greek god post apotheosis?

	starsaphire:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 00:14 GMT	11 points
	I'd love to see a quiz on Norse or Celtic gods next.

	magister:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 02:17 GMT	1 point
	I second the Norse gods quiz.

	Brandon:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 18:46 GMT	3 points
	heracles was only half a god, a demi-god. he was the son of zeus but his mother was a mortal, and heracles himself was too, thats why he was able to be killed by the crab and why is hades only an "other"? god of the underworld and brother of zeus makes "other"? and yea, norse gods would be cool too :)

	magister:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 23:06 GMT	9 points
	Heracles was not killed (in a human sense) by the crab. Please remember that after Heracles and Deianara were married, they had been tricked by a centaur (whose name escapes me...) who tried to kidnap Deinara while crossing a river. Heracles shot the centaur with one of his poison arrows, and the centaur convinced Deinara to collect his blood as a love potion. Later, when Deianara was concerned about Heracles' fidelity, she smeared the blood on his Nemean Lion cloak, which caused Heracles to burst into flames. He was taken up to heaven and became a god (the process is called apotheosis) and even married the goddess Hebe. As for Hades, he is not traditionally held in the Olympian twelve, nor are Persephone and Dionysus. Some authors will replace Hestia with Dionysus, however.

	magister:	Oct 11th, 2008 at 23:13 GMT	1 point
	See, of course, Sophocles' play "The Women of Trachis" and Homer's "Iliad," where I believe Heracles is portrayed weeping for heroes in the Trojan War. Quintus of Smyrna probably mentions him as a god, considering his grandson enters the fray. Apollodorus and Ovid probably tell it too, but my copies are all the way downstairs... Or there are a number of fables of Aesop with Heracles as a god. But again, I think I can echo Daniel who said there are "far, far more gods."

	magister:	Oct 18th, 2008 at 16:22 GMT	-1 points
	@Brandon: I know I'm probably killing this, but I just found that Ennius lists these gods as the twelve. I know that Ennius is Latin, but he's very very old Latin.

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	Kevin:	Oct 30th, 2008 at 03:12 GMT	9 points
	No, Helios is the chariot driver who drives the sun across the sky each day. Apollo is the sun god. In most cases, the Romans changed the name when they stole Greek gods. With Apollo, they got lazy.

	magister:	Oct 31st, 2008 at 15:18 GMT	1 point
	Actually, it really depends on who you read for who depicts whom as the god of the sun. Sometimes it's Helios, sometimes it's Apollo. With so many myth writers (Hesiod, Homer, Apollodorus, Euripides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Pindar, Ovid, Vergil, etc., etc., etc.) each one works on different traditions and brings in their own ideas. A different idea would be to consider Helios, Selene, and Eos as second generation Titans, and when Zeus overthrew Kronos, Apollo took over Helios' job. Even this version has its problems, however.

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	magister:	Nov 1st, 2008 at 16:21 GMT	5 points
	The major issue that arises from that is ultimately, this is an Olympians quiz. Helios may have been a god of the sun, but he was not an Olympian. If changes are to be made on this issue, I would prefer that one of Apollo's other "duties" would replace the sun. Light, music, medicine, reason, prophecy, archery, mice.

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	magister:	Nov 12th, 2008 at 03:29 GMT	-4 points
	That would depend on your definition of god. For most, god is an umbrella term that contains Titans, Olympians, and all minor lesser deities. Therefore, Helios, a second generation Titan, would be a god, but not an Olympian god.

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	scatmanfan:	Dec 13th, 2008 at 02:23 GMT	9 points
	I'm kicking myself for not getting perfect, I love Greek Mythology and I just finished learning it in school. But Hephaestus is hard to spell...

	qwerty:	Dec 15th, 2008 at 20:01 GMT	7 points
	Also, Ares is NOT the god of vengance. That´s Nemesis, but she´s not an Olympian. Ares is only the God of War

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	magister:	Dec 16th, 2008 at 01:24 GMT	2 points
	If we'd like to get technical here, we could take a look at the god Mars Ultor. Granted, it is a Roman deity, and I'm honestly not sure if Ares has the same connotations, (the Greeks and Romans viewed Ares/Mars so very differently) but there would be a case for this god as an avenging spirit. I wouldn't ever put the word "only" before the duty of any god. There's just far too many different cults and local traditions. You are correct that Nemesis was a goddess of vengeance, but did Ares lack that distinction? I'm honestly not sure.

	qwerty:	Dec 17th, 2008 at 02:15 GMT	1 point
	As you said, the roman connotation is very distinct, that´s most likely because he´s the prime example of a god replaced, not adopted. Mars was a god whose cult was identified with Ares´s over time, not really Ares turned roman. Also, you´re right to say that no god had an exclusive task, there were so many local cults that most non-olympian gods are never really asigned to a single job and even loose a defining characteristic (such as Janus sharing time with Chronos/Saturn and the home values with Vesta). But Ares in greek tradition as far as I know, represents more the joy and chaos of battle itself, in which he was feared by enemies and allies alike because he would just stab anybody that got in his way. Vengeance is pretty much directed o a single person or a specific group of people. Also, he chickened out rather easily if ever harmed in battle. In the Iliad he "teleports" back to Olympus over a scratch Diomedes gave him (granted he was being directed by Athena at the time).

	magister:	Dec 18th, 2008 at 01:14 GMT	2 points
	Found one. Ares fathered a daughter named Alcippe with Cecrops' daughter Agraulos. Poseidon's son Halirrhothios tried to rape Alcippe, and Ares (in vengeance) killed Halirrhothios. Poseidon sought reparations and a tribunal of the gods held a trial for Ares on what would soon be the Areopagus in Athens. Ares was acquitted. (Apollodorus, Biblioteka III.14.2) The Areopagus, in a similar case, was the site of Orestes' own vengeance trial after killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus in the Eumenides of Aeschylus. This may be the origin for the god of vengeance idea. It must be admitted, however, that the Ares of Athens could be different than the Ares of even other Greek city-states.

	TRad:	Dec 25th, 2008 at 20:47 GMT	-4 points
	Where's Hades? He was quite important. And Hephaestus? I was forced to google his right spelling. Of course I have double fun: trying to guess correct answers and then translate them into English.

	magister:	Dec 27th, 2008 at 23:02 GMT	1 point
	@TRad: Both are on here. Hephaestus is clearly on the list, and Hades is a bonus answer. He was not one of the traditional Olympians.

	Lenard:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 04:47 GMT	2 points
	Are there more than two bonuses?

	magister:	Dec 30th, 2008 at 12:06 GMT	1 point
	Phil Sandifer originally pointed out that Dionysus was a bonus as well. Dionysus was a very late god to arrive on the Greek mainland.

	Bob:	Dec 31st, 2008 at 15:57 GMT	6 points
	Would it be possible to get a quiz on the titans just like the god quizzes?

	Drago1234:	Feb 1st, 2009 at 18:40 GMT	0 points
	Perhaps a quiz on the Greek primordial deities e.g. Chronos

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	magister:	Feb 8th, 2009 at 17:21 GMT	10 points
	Are you confusing it with the Ram from the Zodiac, perhaps?

	Ely:	Feb 14th, 2009 at 14:29 GMT	2 points
	Dionysus should be in instead of Hestia (who should be a bonus), as he replaced her in the Mythology, and presumably this is an 'up-to-date' version of the Olympians, and furthermore Hades isn't on here because he wasn't an Olympian - he lived in Hades.

	magister:	Feb 14th, 2009 at 21:32 GMT	2 points
	It really depends on who you read. Ennius (Second and Third century BCE) used this list in order to equate the Greek gods with the Roman gods. This was indeed after Dionysus had arrived in Greece, considering Euripides wrote "The Bacchae" by at least 405 BCE.

	Jwgrlrrajn:	Feb 23rd, 2009 at 17:56 GMT	3 points
	You should really make one about egyptian mythology.

	BigThing:	Mar 1st, 2009 at 20:18 GMT	5 points
	Can -os extensions be accepted for -us (except with Zeus)?

	TheArbiter:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 09:59 GMT	5 points
	Agree with Bigthings, also Athene sould be acceptable.