Greek Mythology

How well versed are you in the Greek myths?

Quiz by hellenicart

Last updated: September 26, 2014

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Hint	Answer
Strangled a snake while still in his baby crib	Heracles
She’d rather be a laurel tree than give in to Apollo	Daphne
Killed the Minotaur	Theseus
Flew too close to the sun, now has an island named after him	Icarus
God of wine and joy	Dionysus
The greatest Greek hero of the Trojan War	Achilles
She used to turn men to pigs – literally	Circe
Killed the Medusa, married Andromeda	Perseus
Zeus had to become a swan to get near her	Leda

Hint	Answer
Virgin sister of Apollo	Artemis
Rode a bull, named a continent	Europe
Prince of Troy and ultimately the cause of its demise	Paris
A flying horse, long before LSD	Pegasus
Famous centaur who trained heroes	Cheiron
Took him 20 years to get back home	Odysseus
Was very fond of his mother, of his father not so much	Oedipus
Brother of Zeus, ruler of the Underworld	Hades

mightythor

level 63

Sep 26, 2014

I like that this quiz uses gods other than zeus, athena, apollo aphrodite, the ones everyone knows.

sillie

level 80

Sep 30, 2014

I kept trying "centaur", maybe change the clue a bit to remind it's one being that's sought after, not a whole sort. "He was half horse, half man and trained heroes." ? The shorter version makes it a bit ambiguous.

hellenicart

level 3

Oct 1, 2014

Corrected!

DaDudeODaSea

level 1

May 4, 2017

Not yet, you didn't