Greek and Roman names both count.
? ? ?God of the sky and thunder
? ? ?Goddess of marriage
? ? ?God of the sea
? ? ?Goddess of the harvest
? ? ?Goddess of wisdom and war
? ? ?God of light and music
? ? ?Goddess of the hunt
? ? ?God of war
? ? ?Goddess of love and beauty
? ? ?God of fire and the forge
? ? ?Messenger of the gods
? ? ?God of wine
? ? ?God of the underworld
? ? ?Goddess of the hearth
? ? ?Queen of the underworld
? ? ?Goddess of victory
? ? ?God of love
? ? ?God of the wild
Photo credits
- God photos come from Wikimedia Commons. The photographers are:
- Joseolgon (Zeus) · CC BY 4.0
- Justin Benttinen (Athena) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Livioandronico2013 (Apollo) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- MumblerJamie (Hephaestus) · CC BY-SA 2.0
- ho visto nina volare (Dionysus) · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Mark Landon (Hestia) · CC BY 4.0
- Chappsnet (Eros) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Prioryman (Pan) · CC BY-SA 4.0
- These photos are in the public domain or CC0: Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes, Hades, Persephone, Nike.
Rules & what counts
Greek Gods Quiz — Rules & What Counts
Each card shows one god of Greek mythology as a famous classical artwork — the Apollo Belvedere, the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace. You type the god's name.
The deck holds 18 gods: the twelve Olympians plus Hades, Hestia, Persephone, Nike, Eros and Pan.
The statues carry their own clues. Athena wears her helmet, Artemis reaches for a deer, Hades holds Cerberus on a leash, and Pan has the legs of a goat. Read the attribute and the god follows.
How to play
- Every card is visible from the start. Type any god's name to solve its card.
- Start typing anywhere; the answer bar catches it automatically.
- Roman names count. "Venus" solves Aphrodite, "Jupiter" solves Zeus, and "Mars" solves Ares.
- Greek spellings count too — "Dionysos", "Hephaistos" — and so do frequent misspellings such as "Afrodite".
- A god that is not in the deck, such as Helios or Prometheus, clears the input so you know the quiz read the guess.
- Each card shows the god's domain, for example "God of war". Use the domain as a hint.
- The timer starts at your first keystroke and counts up. Give Up ends the run and shows every god you missed. Progress saves automatically.
What counts in this quiz
- 18 gods: Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Dionysus, Hades, Hestia, Persephone, Nike, Eros and Pan.
- Every image is an ancient statue or a painting that is long out of copyright. Most are the most famous depiction of that god in existence.
- Persephone is the one painting: Rossetti's Proserpine, with the bitten pomegranate that bound her to the underworld.
- Every photo is a freely licensed Wikimedia Commons image. The photographers are credited under the grid.
What's not included — and why
- Titans are not here. Cronus, Atlas and Prometheus came before the Olympians and wait for a quiz of their own.
- Heroes and demigods are not here. Heracles, Perseus and Achilles were born mortal.
- Minor personifications such as Hypnos and Nemesis are not in the deck, but the quiz recognises their names as real answers that solve nothing.
Good to know
- Hestia, goddess of the hearth, gave up her Olympian seat to Dionysus in some tellings — which is why lists of "the twelve" disagree.
- The Winged Victory of Samothrace lost her head and arms, and became more famous without them.
- Nike's name is on more shoes than temples today. The company logo is meant to be her wing.
- Ares was so disliked that Homer has Zeus call him the most hateful of all the gods.
- The Venus de Milo's missing arms probably held an apple — the prize she won in the contest that started the Trojan War.