Do You Know the Role of These Ancient Greek Goddesses?

By: Isadora Teich
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Do You Know the Role of These Ancient Greek Goddesses?
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About This Quiz

Ancient Greek beliefs and religious practices were complex and varied from city-state to city-state. Their gods and goddesses played a unique role in their lives, as the Greeks believed that the gods and goddesses could control their fates and directly interact with them. Greek gods and goddesses were remarkably human despite their amazing power. Just like people they had strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, friends and enemies, and could make both good and bad choices. 

The goddesses of Ancient Greece were fierce, fascinating, terrifying, vengeful, powerful, benevolent, mysterious and so much more. From dark and terrifying queens to powerful warriors to seductive tricksters, these ancient deities had complex personalities and relationships. They also had amazing powers. While the gods of the ancient Greek pantheon are often talked about, and everyone knows all about Zeus, it is time to give the goddesses of ancient Greece some love!

Do you know which realm Persephone ruled over? Do you know the name of the famous Greek goddess of love and beauty? How about the goddess of magic who transformed those who opposed her into beasts? See how much you really know about the female deities of ancient Greece with this very godly quiz!

Can you name the famously beautiful goddesses known as the goddess of love?
Persephone
Circe
Aphrodite
Hera
Of these goddesses, who was the wife of Zeus, known as the Queen of the Gods?
Hera
Demeter
Eos
Themis
Which of these goddesses is associated with a mythic river of the same name?
Styx
Athena
Hera
Sterope

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The virginal Artemis is associated with the bow and arrow. What was she the goddess of?
The hunt
Marriage
Poetry
The sun
Gaia was the personification of which of these?
The earth
The heavens
The seas
Fire
Who is known as the winged goddess of victory?
Nike
Athena
Aphrodite
Hebe

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Which of these goddesses was one of the muses, who personified the arts?
Bia
Calliope
Athena
Nyx
Hestia was the goddess of the hearth, family and state order, and which of these?
Discord
Beauty
Home
Horses
The goddess Ceto, the mother of the famous Medusa, was the mother of which of these?
Mortals
Gods
Wolves
Sea monsters

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Hecate was known for her power over the dead. She was the goddess of what?
Witchcraft
Eternal youth
The sun
Love
The shadowy and powerful Nyx was a primordial goddess of which of these?
Fire
Night
Day
Mountains
Do you know the name of the goddess who presided over the harvest and life itself?
Clotho
Demeter
Selene
Hera

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Circe, who used a wand or staff to wreak her vengeance, is known as the goddess of what?
Magic
Mourning
The arts
Men
Titan Eos was described in myth as having rosy fingers, golden arms and white wings. Do you know what she was the goddess of?
War strategy
Magic
The dawn
Suffering
Peitho was a goddess of persuasion and what else?
Chaos
Darkness
Family
Seduction

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Can you name the infamous wife of Hades, King of the Underworld?
Persephone
Nike
Circe
Eos
__________ was a goddess of strategy born from the forehead of Zeus.
Athena
Demeter
Nike
Hecate
This winged goddess of vengeance holds a whip in her hand. Who is she?
Nemesis
Atropos
Athena
Gaia

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Can you name the claim to fame of the goddess Eris, who turned a royal wedding into a brawl?
Strife
The Olympics
Childbirth
The harvest
Which of these goddesses was the Muse of comedy, who held a comic mask in her hand?
Thalia
Hecate
Eris
Nyx
Iris was associated with rainbows. Can you name another facet of the natural world that was hers?
Fire
Storms
The sky
Winter

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Do you know which of these cheerful goddesses is a part of The Graces?
Aglaea
Euphrosyne
Thalia
All of the above
Which of these goddesses imprisoned Odysseus in "The Odyssey"?
Persephone
Nike
Demeter
Calypso
Can you name the lunar goddess who is considered the mother of all vampires?
Selene
Gaia
Hecate
Enyo

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Mnemosyne was the personification of which aspect of human thought?
Anxiety
Memory
Deep thought
Forgetfulness
Enyo ruled both destruction and ____________.
Lust
War
Beauty
Children
Who is considered the mother of all of the Olympian gods?
Hera
Nyx
Rhea
Artemis

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The primordial goddess of daylight was not featured heavily in myth or worshipped very often. What was her name?
Persephone
Artemis
Eos
Hemera
Who was a goddess of law and known as "The Lady of Good Counsel"?
Themis
Eris
Hecate
Aphrodite
The Titan goddess of wisdom was both a friend and foe to Zeus. Do you know her name?
Selene
Metis
Calypso
Hera

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The goddess Amphitrite was a consort of a god who was famously quick to anger. She was related to which earthly realm?
The sea
The underworld
The sky
The day
Asteria was the starry-eyed Titan goddess of which of the things listed below?
Falling stars
Young love
Youth
Volcanoes
Which goddess was the only known deity with the ability to restore youth to mortals?
Hebe
Persephone
Artemis
Atropos

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This goddess of destiny and fate was so powerful that even the gods bowed to her. Can you name her?
Brizo
Iris
Hera
Atropos
Which group of ancient crone goddesses are more popularly known as The Furies?
The Fates
The Muses
The Titans
The Erinys