Q 01/05

Which daughter of Zeus and Demeter did he give to Hades as a bride behind her mother's back?

A) Hecate

B) Artemis

C) Persephone

D) Aphrodite

Answer · why

C) Persephone

Persephone. Demeter let the crops fail in protest until Zeus ordered her daughter's return, and the earth is said to lie barren each year for the mont...

Q 02/05

In the best-known telling, Zeus carried off which Trojan prince to serve as cupbearer to the gods?

A) Ganymede

B) Paris

C) Hector

D) Aeneas

Answer · why

A) Ganymede

Ganymede. Homer says the boy was taken for his beauty, and that Zeus paid his father for the loss with horses that were the finest under the sun.

Q 03/05

In ancient Rome, Zeus was identified with which god?

A) Neptune

B) Jupiter

C) Mars

D) Saturn

Answer · why

B) Jupiter

Jupiter. That link is why the astronomer Simon Marius named the planet's four big moons after lovers of Zeus, among them Io, Europa and Callisto.

Q 04/05

Zeus is the child of Cronus and which Titaness?

A) Themis

B) Gaia

C) Tethys

D) Rhea

Answer · why

D) Rhea

Rhea. After Cronus swallowed her first five children, she asked her own parents, Gaia and Uranus, to help her hide the sixth.

Q 05/05

Why did Zeus's father swallow each of his children at birth?

A) Gaia ordered it as a test

B) To keep their powers for himself

C) A prophecy said one would overthrow him

D) The Titans demanded a sacrifice

Answer · why

C) A prophecy said one would overthrow him

A prophecy said one would overthrow him, and Cronus had reason to believe it: he had taken power by castrating his own father, Uranus, with a sickle.