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Can you name the 12 Olympian (Roman) Gods? Enter the name of a god below Gods do not have to be entered in order Try your hand at the Greek Gods quiz too! You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.
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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 the Sun
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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There are 27 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	PhilSandifer:	Sep 14th, 2008 at 19:11 GMT	5 points
	Bacchus is a bonus answer. Any others?

	Bob:	Sep 17th, 2008 at 01:42 GMT	5 points
	Pluto is another bonus.

	austin massachusetts:	Oct 26th, 2008 at 20:20 GMT	6 points
	ugh, i keep getting the greek/roman gods mixed up =

	Drago1234:	Feb 1st, 2009 at 23:01 GMT	4 points
	If you're stuck on this quiz, just try naming all the planets in the solar system. That'll get you halfway there.

	Etheridge2:	Feb 2nd, 2009 at 18:14 GMT	-2 points
	speaking of why isn't Saturn either an answer or bonus answer?

	mike3316:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 00:31 GMT	-2 points
	This quiz should accept helios as an alternate for apollo. Also ... no saturn, cupid or somnus??? to bad.

	magister:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 06:50 GMT	3 points
	@Jeremy: Saturn was equated with Kronos and therefore did not belong in the Olympian group. @mike3316: Cupid and Somnus also do not belong in the Olympian group (Odd that you chose Somnus, but that's a different issue.) Helios is the Greek name of a different god, whose Roman name is Sol.

	jkd:	Feb 3rd, 2009 at 23:55 GMT	0 points
	@Ben: A few asteroids will fill in some more, and the non-planet inside the "messenger of the gods" (thought by some at one time to exist) just about finishes the list.

	Dunk:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 00:32 GMT	3 points
	I love that wine is considered a "major" god.

	magister:	Feb 16th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT	2 points
	@Dunk: ah yes, one of the three staples of Mediterranean agriculture. Grapes for wine, olives for oil, and grain for bread. All of them are represented here.

	Hugo_Whitfield:	Apr 14th, 2009 at 05:21 GMT	-1 points
	Juppiter should be accepted as an alternative for Jupiter because it is the god and not the planet.

	magister:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	2 points
	@Hugo: Sure, but where does it end? Jupiter, Juppiter, Iupiter, Iuppiter, Jove, Iove (both using the genitive singular), Diespater, etc., etc., etc.

	bleech128:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 22:40 GMT	1 point
	egyptian gods next

	the_last_dodo:	Jun 18th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	1 point
	honestly i just typed in the names of the planets. i almost got them all too.

	Mango_Man:	Jun 23rd, 2009 at 02:34 GMT	-1 points
	Finished in 29 seconds =]

	kirstenforpres:	Jun 25th, 2009 at 07:28 GMT	1 point
	Apollo wasn't the god of the sun, which both the Greeks and the Romans assigned its own god. Apollo was associated with light because of his role as god of truth and prophecy.

	magister:	Jun 25th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	2 points
	@kirstenforpres: That's an oversimplified approach. Many of the roles of the sun-gods ended up being transferred to Apollo at various points. I will agree that there are other specifically sun gods, but Apollo did have many of these characteristics as well.

	sponti:	Aug 8th, 2009 at 04:11 GMT	1 point
	If you insist on Apollo being God of the sun, you should at least accept Sol, the Roman equivalent of Helios.

	magister:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 20:01 GMT	0 points
	@sponti: AGAIN, the quiz asks "Can you name the 12 Olympian (Roman) gods?" This is not a matter of Roman deities, but a matter of the Roman equivalents of Olympian gods. Sol may belong here as a god of the son, but as a second generation Titan, does not belong on a list of Olympians.

	mainiac65:	Sep 12th, 2009 at 21:28 GMT	1 point
	Missed the home one on both Greek and Roman.

	vic_kun:	Sep 14th, 2009 at 01:19 GMT	0 points
	Saturn, Uranus and Cupid should be bonus answers

	magister:	Sep 18th, 2009 at 00:23 GMT	2 points
	@vic_kun: Exactly how many minor gods are you going to allow in though? Only Saturn, Uranus, and Cupid? What about Castor and Pollux? Mithra? Isis? Various other minor gods? Go read Augustine's "Civitas Dei" and get back to me re: minor Roman gods.

	sponti:	Sep 23rd, 2009 at 17:17 GMT	1 point
	Oh I see, I missed your explanation above. Thanks for clarifying.

	jcos444:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 21:21 GMT	1 point
	Saturn and uranus should not be. Saturn=kronos and uranus is his father. Neither are olympians. Although Cupid should be as the son vulcan and venus...who are both olympians.

	magister:	Oct 10th, 2009 at 06:37 GMT	1 point
	@jcos444: So...what about Juventas, daughter of Jupiter and Juno? What about all the other children of Vulcan and Venus? What about the children of Venus and Mercury, Bacchus, Mars, and Neptunus? The 12 Olympians are pretty much set with a little variation. Cupid is not part of those variations. Again, I would look at the list Ennius provides. (It even scans in dactylic hexameter! How cool is that!)

	Strattosphere:	Oct 24th, 2009 at 07:53 GMT	1 point
	But Bacchus and Pluto are actually both variations of their Greek names, their Roman names were Liber and Dis, respectively

	magister:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 00:40 GMT	1 point
	@Strattosphere: That's an oversimplification of the rather complex development of names in classical mythology. There are a lot of factors contributing to how the Romans referred to the gods. For example, while Liber is a very old Roman deity, with the assimilation of the characteristics of Dionysos, it is probably simplest to refer to him simply by Bacchus. Take into consideration Etruscan gods like Uni or Menrva, and their relationship to the development of the ideas of Juno and Minerva. We could sit back and talk about the countless epithets that all of these gods had, but let's not. For that matter, what about Jupiter being basically not only a) the Anglicized version of the Latin Iuppiter, but also b) based on Diespater, which ultimately is based on the Greek as well.