50 free Artemis trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 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.
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Q 01Artemis was the Greek goddess of the hunt and of which celestial body in later tradition?
The Moon
The Greeks' original lunar deity was Selene; the two were merged over time, along with Hecate, into a triple goddess.
Q 02Who was Artemis's twin brother?
Apollo
In one account she was born first and then helped her mother deliver him.
Q 03Who was the mother of Artemis?
Leto
Leto was a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, and Hera hounded her across the earth for her affair with Zeus.
Q 04On which island, in most accounts, was Artemis born?
Delos
Hera had forbidden Leto to give birth on solid land, but the floating island defied her and became rooted in place as a reward.
Q 05Which goddess forbade Leto from giving birth anywhere on solid land?
Hera
Zeus's wife also sent the serpent Python and the giant Tityos to pursue Leto.
Q 06Which Roman goddess is the equivalent of Artemis?
Diana
Her name probably comes from Latin dius, meaning divine or heavenly.
Q 07Along with Athena and which other goddess, Artemis was one of the three great virgin goddesses?
Hestia
They were the three over whom Aphrodite had no power.
Q 08Which animal was especially sacred to Artemis?
The deer
Her symbols were the bow, arrow and quiver; the golden-horned Ceryneian Hind was one of her creatures.
Q 09The hunter Actaeon saw Artemis bathing and was turned into which animal before his own dogs killed him?
A stag
In some versions his hounds grieved so much that the centaur Chiron carved a lifelike statue of him to console them.
Q 10Actaeon belonged to the royal house of which Greek city?
Thebes
His mother Autonoe was a daughter of Cadmus, the city's founder, and his father was the herdsman Aristaeus.
Q 11Artemis's companion Callisto was transformed into which animal after Zeus seduced her?
A she-bear
Her son Arcas gave his name to Arcadia; mother and son became the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Q 12Callisto was the daughter of which king of Arcadia?
Lycaon
In one version told by Hyginus, Zeus seduced her by disguising himself as Artemis during a hunt.
Q 13Which constellation was Callisto placed in, according to the version in Hyginus?
Ursa Major
Her son Arcas became Ursa Minor in the same telling.
Q 14Which boastful queen claimed to outdo Leto as a mother and lost all her children to the twins?
Q 21Which goddess did Artemis fight in the battle of the gods in the Iliad?
Hera
Leto picked up her daughter's dropped bow and arrows and followed her weeping to Olympus.
Q 22Artemis sent the great boar that ravaged Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at what?
The harvest sacrifices
The huntress Atalanta drew first blood in the resulting Calydonian boar hunt.
Q 23Homer's title for Artemis, 'Potnia Theron', means what?
Mistress of animals
The image of a woman flanked by two beasts goes back to the Bronze Age.
Niobe
Homer gives her six sons and six daughters; the twins killed the boys and girls in turn.
Q 15Which of Artemis's hunting companions was killed by a giant scorpion and placed among the stars?
Orion
In another version Apollo tricked his sister into shooting Orion herself while he swam far out at sea.
Q 16According to Istrus, Orion was the only person Artemis ever did what?
Fell in love with
Apollo, disapproving, bet his sister she could not hit a distant speck in the sea, and she unwittingly shot Orion.
Q 17Which Greek commander shot Artemis's sacred deer, causing her to becalm the fleet at Aulis?
Agamemnon
She demanded his daughter Iphigenia as compensation before the ships could sail for Troy.
Q 18In most versions, what did Artemis leave on the altar in place of Iphigenia?
A deer
Some tellers substituted a goat that was really the god Pan; the rescued girl was carried off to Tauris.
Q 19Iphigenia was brought to Aulis under the pretence that she would marry which hero?
Achilles
Her mother Clytemnestra came with her; the deception fed her later hatred of Agamemnon.
Q 20In the Trojan War, which side did Artemis support?
The Trojans
She even challenged Hera in battle, and came off badly, running to weep at Zeus's knees.
Q 24The name Artemis may be related to the Greek word arktos, meaning what?
Bear
That fits her bear cult at Brauron and the Callisto story, which was originally about Artemis herself.
Q 25At the Arkteia festival at Brauron, young girls in saffron robes acted as which animals?
Bears
The rite appeased the goddess after she sent a plague when a tame bear was killed in the town.
Q 26Which Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting is thought to be a precursor of Artemis?
Britomartis
In Diodorus's telling she was a nymph pursued by King Minos for nine months who leapt into the sea and landed in fishermen's nets.
Q 27Which god gave Artemis her hunting dogs, animals said to be able to hunt even lions?
Pan
She received two black-and-white dogs, three reddish ones and one spotted one.
Q 28Which of Heracles' labours was intended to enrage Artemis by capturing her sacred golden-horned animal?
The Ceryneian Hind
Heracles talked his way out of trouble by promising to release the hind afterwards, foiling Eurystheus's plan.
Q 29The golden-horned hind Heracles captured was once which Pleiad, transformed by Artemis to save her from Zeus?
Taygete
She had been a dear companion of the goddess and was called the Mistress of Animals herself.
Q 30As what did Artemis leap between the giant twins Otus and Ephialtes, tricking them into killing each other?
A deer
The Aloadae hurled their spears at the animal and struck one another instead.