Q 01/05

Ares is the Greek god of what?

A) The sun

B) The sea

C) War

D) The underworld

Answer · why

C) War

He embodied the raw physical side of battle, while his sister Athena handled strategy and generalship.

Q 02/05

Who were the parents of Ares?

A) Zeus and Hera

B) Zeus and Metis

C) Zeus and Leto

D) Cronus and Rhea

Answer · why

A) Zeus and Hera

That made him a full-blooded Olympian, unlike many of Zeus's children by mortals and nymphs.

Q 03/05

Ares was one of how many Olympian gods?

A) 10

B) 14

C) 9

D) 12

Answer · why

D) 12

His sister Athena, goddess of strategy, was another; the Greeks usually sacrificed to her rather than to Ares before battle.

Q 04/05

Which goddess was Ares's famous lover, caught with him in a trap set by her husband?

A) Persephone

B) Eos

C) Aphrodite

D) Demeter

Answer · why

C) Aphrodite

According to Hesiod their children included Phobos and Deimos, who rode into battle with their father.

Q 05/05

Which god netted Ares and his lover in an invisible trap and invited the Olympians to laugh?

A) Apollo

B) Hermes

C) Poseidon

D) Hephaestus

Answer · why

D) Hephaestus

The goddesses stayed away out of modesty; the male gods came to look and joked that they would happily swap places with Ares.