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If there's one thing you are sure to find in most Greek myths, it's a bit of love and/or lust, especially when Zeus is involved.
7 quizzes and 55 trivia questions.
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  Cupid is Stupid   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
For a culture with so many deities dedicated to love, some figures in Greek and Roman mythology certainly had some difficulty in their love lives. Join me as I look at some of these figures who travelled to the Hellenic and back for love!
Tough, 10 Qns, doublemm, Jan 10 10
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  Alternative Sexuality in Greek Myth    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
The Greek mythology is full of myths telling the story of the same sex love, as well as that of transgender people or heroes. Here are a few examples.
Average, 5 Qns, Beatka, Dec 04 15
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  True Love or Lustful Fling?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Greek Mythology is full of romances, both long and short, but are any truly long-lasting love or are they just short lust-driven flings?
Average, 10 Qns, Theresa9, Feb 01 10
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  Greek Mythology Love Stories    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Questions on Greek stories of unfulfilled love.
Average, 10 Qns, cozmicgoddess, Dec 04 15
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  A Hit and Some Misses of Eros    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is on nine of Eros' misses and (a weird) one of his hits.
Average, 10 Qns, nekayah, Nov 11 20
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nekayah
Nov 11 20
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  Great Love in Greek Myth    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
There weren't many mythological couples who remained faithful to each other throughout their all lives. Here are the most moving examples.
Tough, 5 Qns, Beatka, Feb 29 08
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  Infidelity in Greek Myth    
Multiple Choice
 5 Qns
It is relatively easy to find examples of marital infidelity in the Greek myths. Here are the most striking of them.
Average, 5 Qns, Beatka, Feb 29 08
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trivia question Quick Question
Pygmalion scorned love and lust and devoted himself to art, but he was captivated nevertheless by which entity?

From Quiz "A Hit and Some Misses of Eros"





Love and Lust Trivia Questions
1. Orpheus travelled to the underworld to recover his betrothed, Euridice, after what killed her on their wedding day?

From Quiz A Hit and Some Misses of Eros

Answer: A snake bite

Orpheus was determined to get Euridice back, so he pleaded with the gods of the underworld to give her back her life. He played for them and they were so moved by his music they agreed to give Euridice back to him on the condition he didn't look at her until the were both in the land of the living. He could not resist sneaking a glance back at her face as they were ascending into it, so Euridice was recalled to the realm of Hades. Orpheus was inconsolable.

2. Which beautiful Goddess is Zeus, God of the Sky, married to?

From Quiz True Love or Lustful Fling?

Answer: Hera

Zeus and Hera married after he saved her and their other siblings (Hestia, Demeter, Hades and Poseidon) from the stomach of their father Cronus.

3. Philemon and Baucis were a loving couple who didn't want to live without one another so they asked the gods to let them die at the same time. The gods granted their wish and changed them into what?

From Quiz Great Love in Greek Myth

Answer: trees

Philemon and Baucis were the only humans to welcome in their poor house the gods Zeus and Hermes (disguised as mortals). The gods angered at the inhospitality of mankind, sent the floods on Earth but saved the old couple's hut and turned it into a temple.

4. A blind prophet, he was a woman for seven years. What was his name?

From Quiz Alternative Sexuality in Greek Myth

Answer: Tiresias

According to one myth, when he saw Athena bathing, she blinded him, but granted him prophetic powers instead. Another story is that Hera blinded him for claiming that women enjoyed love more than men; Zeus recompensed him with long life and the power of prophecy.

5. Who fell in love with Endymion, grandson of Zeus and king of Elis?

From Quiz Greek Mythology Love Stories

Answer: Selene

Selene had put Endymion to sleep for eternity so he wouldn't age.

6. Pygmalion scorned love and lust and devoted himself to art, but he was captivated nevertheless by which entity?

From Quiz A Hit and Some Misses of Eros

Answer: A sculpture

He sculpted a maid who was so beautiful and perfect he fell in love with her, and asked Aphrodite if she'd bring her to life. Aphrodite granted his request. Fortunately, the maid returned his affection upon animation. They had children together.

7. The Trojan prince Paris fell for which gorgeous mortal woman?

From Quiz True Love or Lustful Fling?

Answer: Helen

Paris was asked by Hera, Athena and Aphrodite to choose the most beautiful of them. He chose Aphrodite and in return she gave him Helen as a lover. Their elopement sparked the Trojan War.

8. Clytemnestra plotted with her lover, Aegisthus, to kill her husband Agamemnon. They murdered Agamemnon and his lover, the prophetess Cassandra. What was the subsequent fate of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra?

From Quiz Infidelity in Greek Myth

Answer: they were killed by Agamemnon's son, Orestes

Agamemmon was the leader of the Greek forces during the Trojan War. He was killed shortly after his return from Troy.

9. Odysseus was so much in love with his wife Penelope that he rejected the love of a nymph whom he met during his lengthy wanderings. What was the nymph's name?

From Quiz Great Love in Greek Myth

Answer: Calypso

Calypso offered him immortality and eternal youth. But Odysseus preferred to get back to his mortal wife, Penelope. The journey took him almost 10 years and is described in one of the greatest epic poems of all times, the "Odyssey" by Homerus.

10. The most brave of Greek mythological heroes, Heracles, was her slave for three years. She wore the lion's skin while he wore a female garment and spent his time spinning wool. Who was she?

From Quiz Alternative Sexuality in Greek Myth

Answer: Omphale

Omphale was the queen of Lydia. The proper Greek name for the hero is Heracles, but he is better known under his Roman name - Hercules.

11. With whom did Achilles fall in love the minute he drove a spear into her throat?

From Quiz Greek Mythology Love Stories

Answer: Penthesileia

They were in battle, Penthesileia was an amazon.

12. Callisto joined the virginal train of a divine huntress, but became prey to Zeus in the guise of her teacher. Who was this goddess?

From Quiz A Hit and Some Misses of Eros

Answer: Artemis

After her defilement, Callisto continued to follow Artemis, but when the flock disrobed to wash in a river, she was revealed to be pregnant. Artemis banished her and admonished her not to sully the stream with her shameful reproduction. Then Hera turned her into a bear.

13. In the seemingly rare occasion that two mythological figures *share* a love for one another, Cupid's arrow again misses and the story ends in tragedy. What is the name of the youth who drowned whilst swimming to see his love, Hero?

From Quiz Cupid is Stupid

Answer: Leander

Leander was a youth from the town of Abydos. On the opposite shore to Abydos was the town of Sestos and in Sestos lived the maiden, Hero. Leander would swim to Sestos every night to be with Hero, until a tempest caused him to drown. Hero saw his lifeless body wash ashore and so took her own life.

14. Ares, the God of War, has an affair with which married Goddess?

From Quiz True Love or Lustful Fling?

Answer: Aphrodite

Aphrodite is married to Hephaestus, God of fire and the forge, but she doesn't love him, so she is conducting an affair with the God of War.

15. Menelaus was Agamemnon's brother. He was married to Helen, the most beautiful woman on Earth. But Helen ran off with Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy. This led to the Trojan war. Did Menelaus manage to get her back?

From Quiz Infidelity in Greek Myth

Answer: yes, and they lived happily again

According to some myths, Helen didn't run off but was abducted by Paris. In other myths, she went with Hermes to Egypt and it was only her cloudy phantom that accompanied Paris. The real Helen was reunited with Menelaus after the end of the Trojan War.

16. He was a beautiful young man, a son of Aphrodite and Hermes. He was fused into one body with a nymph named Salmacis, who had fallen in love with him. Do you know his name?

From Quiz Alternative Sexuality in Greek Myth

Answer: Hermaphroditus

The name "hermaphrodite" is today given to all people who possess the external qualities of both sexes.

17. Which 2 goddesses fell in love with Adonis and had to share him?

From Quiz Greek Mythology Love Stories

Answer: Aphrodite and Persephone

Eventually Adonis was killed during a wild boar hunt.

18. Echo was smitten with Narcissus, but could not enchant him with the rhapsodic babble which filled her heart, as her tongue had been cursed by Hera. For what had she been punished?

From Quiz A Hit and Some Misses of Eros

Answer: Distracting Hera with intriguing stories

Hera's favourite pastime was trying to catch Zeus in flagrante delicto with his lovers (and of course meting out fair punishment to the minxes), and Echo's entrancing tales prevented her from doing it - one too many times. Echo tried to attract Narcissus, but could only echo his own words and he dismissed her. Nemesis, responding to Echo's prayers, cursed Narcissus. He espied the most beautiful figure in a pond. Then he and Echo both mourned his fate as he died in pursuit of himself.

19. Prior to the Trojan War, the Trojan princess Andromache is married to which handsome and brave prince?

From Quiz True Love or Lustful Fling?

Answer: Hector

Hector and Andromache, unlike many of the couples in Greek Mythology, genuinely love each other and even have a son named Astyanax. Hector and Astyanax die in the Trojan War, and Andromache suffers in slavery -- but in some sources, she eventually finds happiness again with Helenus.

20. Another beautiful young man, who despised the love of many girls and nymphs but fell in love with his own reflection in a spring, was named?

From Quiz Alternative Sexuality in Greek Myth

Answer: Narcissus

Actually it was the rejected nymphs who prayed for vengeance to one of the goddesses, who made him fall in love with his own reflection. He killed himself, or died, in despair. A flower grew in a place where he died, and it was named after him: narcissus.

21. Who had Orpheus lost forever in the Underworld?

From Quiz Greek Mythology Love Stories

Answer: Eurydice

Orpheus had gone down to the Underworld to get her back, he had used his lyre. He looked at her before they could get out, which he was not supposed to do, and she was gone.

22. Pyramus and Thisbe's parents forbade their love, so they agreed to meet one night under a mulberry tree at the tomb of Ninus, where they met a fate reminiscent of which famous star-crossed lovers?

From Quiz A Hit and Some Misses of Eros

Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Thisbe arrived at the grave first. Seeing a lion which was bloody from gorging on oxen, and thirsty, she fled and dropped her veil, and hid in a cave. The lion (having drunk and returned to the grave) attacked the veil, so when Pyramus arrived, he assumed the lion had eaten Thisbe and stabbed himself. Thisbe emerged from the cave and likewise killed herself. The mulberries turned from white to red in answer to Thisbe's prayer for the gods to commemorate the lovers' blood.

23. Apollo, God of Music, fell for which young Trojan princess who cruelly rejected him?

From Quiz True Love or Lustful Fling?

Answer: Cassandra

Apollo fell in love with Cassandra and promised to give her the gift of prophecy if she made love to him. She agreed and, after he had bestowed upon her the gift of prophecy, she decided she wanted to remain a virgin and rejected him. He became angry and cursed her so that she would foretell tragedies but no-one would ever believe her.

24. The goddess of love, Aphrodite, was married to the crippled god of fire, Hephaestus, but was unfaithful to him. Among her many mortal lovers the most famous was perhaps Adonis. What happened to him?

From Quiz Infidelity in Greek Myth

Answer: he was fatally wounded by a wild boar and died

According to some myths, Aphrodite was forced to marry Hephaestus, the steadiest of gods, by Zeus, who was afraid that the gods would fight over Aphrodite's hand in marriage.

25. Hecuba, wife of Priam, king of Troy, was totally devoted to her husband and family. When almost all her family members got killed by the Achaeans (Greeks), the gods turned her into which animal?

From Quiz Great Love in Greek Myth

Answer: dog

Hecuba and Priam had 19 children, including Paris and Hector. Hecuba, turned by the gods into a bitch, jumped into the sea and drowned herself.

26. He was the protagonist of one of the most well-known love stories involving Zeus. He was a young, lovely boy whom Zeus made the cupbearer to the gods. What was his name?

From Quiz Alternative Sexuality in Greek Myth

Answer: Ganymede

Zeus fell in love with Ganymede whom he spotted herding his flock on Mount Ida. Zeus sent an eagle to carry Ganymede to Mount Olympus where the boy became cupbearer to the gods.

27. Who covered the sky with clouds to conceal his act of making love to Io, who was changed into a beautiful white cow?

From Quiz Greek Mythology Love Stories

Answer: Zeus

Hera had caught Zeus in one of his affairs, but he had changed Io into a white cow. She got her revenge by sending the cow away.

28. Hephaestus trapped his wife Aphrodite and her lover in a net, to show them to the gods in the act of adultery. Who was she with?

From Quiz A Hit and Some Misses of Eros

Answer: Ares

Hephaestus put a net finer than cobwebs on their bed and invited the pantheon to shame them. The gods dutifully laughed, but the lovers inspired so much admiration in each that they laughed at Hephaestus in their hearts.

29. Psyche, the mortal woman turned Goddess of the Soul, fell for which God?

From Quiz True Love or Lustful Fling?

Answer: Eros

Psyche was hated by Aphrodite because she was very beautiful, and so Aphrodite sent her son Eros, the God of love, to make her fall in love with the ugliest creature on earth. However, Eros fell in love with her instead. After a brief separation they were married and had a daughter named Voluptas.

30. Who fell in love with Narcissus, but could not express her feelings so wasted away until she was merely a voice?

From Quiz Greek Mythology Love Stories

Answer: Echo

Hera had punished her. She could not talk only the last words spoken from someone else.

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