Artemis Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
6correct to beat the crowd
47 free Artemis trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Artemis trivia for mythology readers, Percy Jackson fans, classics students and anyone who has looked up at Orion or Ursa Major and wondered how they got there. This quiz covers the Greek goddess of the hunt, wild animals, childbirth and chastity: her birth on the floating island of Delos, her twin Apollo, her mother Leto, and the vows that made her one of the three goddesses Aphrodite could not touch. The questions run through the great myths of divine retribution: Actaeon torn apart by his own hounds, Callisto turned into a bear, Niobe's children shot down, Orion and the scorpion, and Iphigenia at Aulis. They also cover her worship, from the girls who danced as bears at Brauron to the temple at Ephesus that was one of the Seven Wonders, plus her Roman counterpart Diana at Lake Nemi, the Diana of Versailles in the Louvre and NASA's Artemis Moon program. Questions range from easy to expert, and every answer was checked against a reference page and carries its source. If you enjoy this, try our Greek mythology, Apollo and Roman gods quizzes next.
30 of 47 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Artemis was the Greek goddess of the hunt and of which celestial body in later tradition?
The Moon
The Moon came to Artemis late: the Greeks' own lunar goddess was Selene, and once her twin was equated with the sun god Helios, it seemed natural to pair her with Helios's sister.
Q 02Who was Artemis's twin brother?
Apollo
Apollo was Artemis's twin; by some accounts she was born first and, as a newborn, helped her mother deliver him.
Q 03Who was the mother of Artemis?
Leto
Leto, daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, had fierce defenders: in most tellings her children shot down the giant Tityos when he tried to carry her off near Delphi, and vultures feed on him in Hades.
Q 04On which island, in most accounts, was Artemis born?
Delos
Delos, then a floating island, took in the persecuted mother when no fixed land dared, and the story goes that it has stood anchored to the sea floor ever since.
Q 05Along with Athena and which other goddess, Artemis was one of the three great virgin goddesses?
Hestia
Hestia, goddess of the hearth, was courted by two gods, refused both and swore on Zeus's head to stay a maiden; the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite counts her with Athena and Artemis as the three love cannot sway.
Q 06In Callimachus's hymn, who forged Artemis's bow and arrows?
The Cyclopes
The Cyclopes made them at their forge on Lipari; she had met them before, when at three she sat on the knee of the Cyclops Brontes and tore a fistful of hair from his chest.
Q 07The hunter Actaeon saw Artemis bathing and was turned into which animal before his own dogs killed him?
A stag
A stag: the bath is the telling that became standard, while older ones blame a hunting boast or his courting of Semele. In Apollodorus his grieving hounds were consoled by a lifelike statue of him made by the centaur Chiron.
Q 08Actaeon was a grandson of Cadmus, the legendary founder of which Greek city?
Thebes
Thebes was founded by Cadmus, whose house ran to torn sons: Actaeon fell to his hounds, and his cousin Pentheus was pulled apart by his own mother and aunts in a Bacchic frenzy.
Q 09Artemis's companion Callisto was transformed into which animal after Zeus seduced her?
A she-bear
A she-bear is what Callisto became, at the hands of Artemis, Zeus or his jealous wife depending on the teller; in Ovid her own son Arcas, grown into a hunter, came within a spear's throw of killing her.
Q 10In most tellings, Callisto's father was which Arcadian king, who was turned into a wolf?
Lycaon
Lycaon became a wolf, in the best-known version, for serving Zeus human flesh to test whether his guest was truly a god; the comic poet Amphis added that Zeus won Callisto disguised as Artemis.
Q 11Which boastful queen mocked Artemis's mother for having only two children and lost all her own to the twins?
Niobe
Niobe lost six sons and six daughters in the Iliad; turned to stone on Mount Sipylus, she weeps still, and a crag there that seems to shed tears has been shown as hers since antiquity.
Q 12Which of Artemis's hunting companions was killed by a giant scorpion and placed among the stars?
Orion
Orion had boasted he would kill every beast on earth; in the usual telling Gaia sent the scorpion to stop him, and the two were set in the sky so that one rises as the other sets.
Q 13In one telling, why did Artemis's brother trick her into shooting her companion?
He won her love
Q 21Some scholars have linked the name Artemis to the Greek word arktos, meaning what?
Bear
Bear: arktos is Greek for bear, and the link would suit her rites in Attica, where girls played the animal; but etymologists now doubt it and call her name's origin unknown.
Q 22At which Attic sanctuary did Athenian girls serve Artemis in the Arkteia rite before marriage?
Brauron
Brauron is also where one Athenian tragedy sends Iphigenia to end her days as the goddess's key-keeper, with the robes of women who died in childbirth laid at her tomb.
Q 23Which Cretan goddess of mountains and hunting was later identified with Artemis?
Britomartis
Britomartis fled King Minos for nine months, then leapt off a cliff into the sea and landed in fishermen's nets, in Callimachus's telling; he says that is why Cretans called her Diktynna, lady of the nets.
He won her love: Istrus, quoted by Hyginus, says she came near marrying the hunter, so her disapproving brother dared her to hit a distant speck far out at sea, which was the swimmer's head.
Q 14Which Greek commander shot a deer sacred to Artemis, so that she held his fleet at Aulis?
Agamemnon
Agamemnon shot a creature sacred to Artemis and boasted of the kill; she kept the fleet from sailing and demanded his daughter Iphigenia as the price of a fair wind.
Q 15Which playwright's Iphigenia in Tauris shows the girl serving as Artemis's priestess after her rescue?
Euripides
Euripides has the rescued girl preside over the Taurians' sacrifice of strangers; her own brother Orestes is captured and handed to her for the altar before she recognises him, and they escape with the goddess's statue.
Q 16Iphigenia was brought to Aulis under the pretence that she would marry which hero?
Achilles
Achilles knew nothing of the wedding in the classic stage version; furious that his name had been used as bait, he vowed to defend the girl against the whole army.
Q 17In Homer's Iliad, which side did Artemis take in the war?
The Trojans
The Trojans had Artemis on their side, as they had her twin; in the battle of the gods Zeus's wife pulled the bow from her shoulders, beat her about the ears with it and sent her off in tears.
Q 18At which city's sanctuary of Artemis Orthia were boys ritually flogged at her altar?
Sparta
Sparta's priestess stood by with the goddess's small wooden image, Pausanias says, and if the floggers spared a boy for his looks or rank it grew too heavy for her to hold.
Q 19Artemis sent the great boar that ravaged Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at what?
The harvest sacrifices
The harvest sacrifices went to every god but her, the Iliad says; and once heroes had killed the boar she set two peoples warring over who should keep its head and hide.
Q 20Homer's title for Artemis, 'Potnia Theron', means what?
Mistress of animals
Mistress of animals cut both ways: the huntress who killed game was also its protector, above all of the young, and the Iliad gives her the title just once.
Q 24Which god gave Artemis her hunting dogs, animals said to be able to hunt even lions?
Pan
Pan was butchering a lynx to feed his own pack when she reached his Arcadian fold, Callimachus says; he handed over six hounds and then seven bitches swifter than the wind.
Q 25Which of Heracles' labours meant taking a beast sacred to Artemis alive, after a chase lasting a whole year?
The Ceryneian Hind
The Ceryneian Hind had golden horns, and in Apollodorus Heracles chased it for a whole year, hoping not to wound it; when Artemis stopped him on the road he blamed Eurystheus, and she let him carry it off alive.
Q 26Which band of women did Callimachus credit with founding Artemis's cult at Ephesus, dancing round her image under an oak?
The Amazons
The Amazons set up her image beneath an oak by the shore, Callimachus says, and danced a war dance round it in shields and armour; a great shrine later rose on the spot.
Q 27Which son of Theseus, a chaste devotee of Artemis, was destroyed by Aphrodite's scheming?
Hippolytus
Hippolytus, son of Theseus, worshipped Artemis and scorned Aphrodite, who made his stepmother Phaedra desire him; his father's curse had him dragged to death by his own horses.
Q 28In Pindar's telling, Artemis shot which pregnant Thessalian princess, her brother's lover, for sleeping with a mortal?
Coronis
Coronis lay with the mortal Ischys while carrying the god's child; Artemis shot her, and the unborn boy cut from her pyre grew up to be Asclepius, god of medicine.
Q 29Artemis's mother turned some Lycian peasants into which animals after they muddied a pool she wanted to drink from?
Frogs
Frogs, because she cursed them to live in that pool for ever: in Ovid they had jumped in and churned up the mud out of spite when she knelt, parched, to drink.
Q 30The Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders, stood at Ephesus in what is now which country?
Turkey
Turkey holds the ruins, near the town of Selçuk; river silt has pushed the coast so far west that the great Greek port now lies well inland.