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49 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
Apollo was Artemis's twin; by some accounts she was born first and, as a newborn, helped her mother deliver him.
Q 03Who was the mother of Artemis?
Leto
Leto, a daughter of the Titans Coeus and Phoebe, bore the divine twins to Zeus after a long persecution.
Q 04On which island, in most accounts, was Artemis born?
Delos
Delos, then a floating island, took in the persecuted mother when no fixed land dared; it was anchored in place as its reward.
Q 05Which Roman goddess is the equivalent of Artemis?
Diana
Diana, Rome's goddess of the hunt and wild places, absorbed Artemis's myths; her name likely derives from a Latin root meaning divine or heavenly.
Q 06Along with Athena and which other goddess, Artemis was one of the three great virgin goddesses?
Hestia
Hestia, goddess of the hearth, joined Athena and Artemis as the three virgin goddesses whom, the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite says, Aphrodite could not sway.
Q 07Which animal was especially sacred to Artemis?
The deer
The deer was Artemis's sacred animal: she is shown with a hind at her side, and harming her deer brought her fury down on hunters and kings alike.
Q 08The hunter Actaeon saw Artemis bathing and was turned into which animal before his own dogs killed him?
A stag
Artemis turned Actaeon into a stag; in Apollodorus his grieving hounds were consoled by a lifelike statue of him made by the centaur Chiron.
Q 09Actaeon belonged to the royal house of which Greek city?
Thebes
Actaeon's mother Autonoe was a daughter of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and his father was Aristaeus, the rustic god of beekeeping and herds.
Q 10Artemis's companion Callisto was transformed into which animal after Zeus seduced her?
A she-bear
Callisto was turned into a she-bear, by Artemis, by Zeus or by his jealous wife depending on the teller, and bore Zeus the son Arcas, who gave his name to Arcadia.
Q 11Callisto was the daughter of which king of Arcadia?
Lycaon
Lycaon, the Arcadian king whom Zeus turned into a wolf, was Callisto's father in the usual account; Hyginus adds that Zeus approached her disguised as Artemis.
Q 12Which constellation was Callisto placed in, according to the version in Hyginus?
Ursa Major
Her son Arcas became Ursa Minor in the same telling.
Q 13Which boastful queen claimed to outdo Leto as a mother and lost all her children to the twins?
Niobe
Niobe boasted that her twelve children outdid the mother of the twins; in the Iliad the twin gods shot her six sons and six daughters.
Q 21Artemis sent the great boar that ravaged Calydon because King Oeneus had forgotten her at what?
The harvest sacrifices
Oeneus offered the first fruits of the harvest sacrifices to every god but Artemis, so she loosed the Calydonian boar on his fields, as the Iliad recounts.
Q 22Homer's title for Artemis, 'Potnia Theron', means what?
Mistress of animals
Potnia Theron, 'Mistress of animals', is what Homer calls Artemis in the Iliad; the motif of a goddess flanked by two beasts goes back to Bronze Age art.
Q 23The name Artemis may be related to the Greek word arktos, meaning what?
Bear
Q 14Which 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 15According to Istrus, Orion was the only person Artemis ever did what?
Fell in love with
Istrus, quoted by Hyginus, says Artemis fell in love with the hunter and meant to marry him; her disapproving brother dared her to hit a distant speck at sea, which was his head.
Q 16Which Greek commander shot Artemis's sacred deer, causing her to becalm the fleet at Aulis?
Agamemnon
Agamemnon shot a creature sacred to Artemis and boasted of the kill; she stilled the winds at Aulis and demanded his daughter Iphigenia before the fleet could sail.
Q 17Which playwright's Iphigenia in Tauris shows the girl serving as Artemis's priestess after her rescue?
Euripides
Euripides wrote Iphigenia in Tauris around 414 BC; in it the rescued girl serves Artemis among the Taurians until her brother Orestes arrives.
Q 18Iphigenia was brought to Aulis under the pretence that she would marry which hero?
Achilles
The summons promised Iphigenia a wedding to Achilles; Clytemnestra escorted her to Aulis, and the lie deepened her hatred of her husband.
Q 19In the Trojan War, which side did Artemis support?
The Trojans
Artemis sided with the Trojans, as did her twin; in the Iliad's battle of the gods she was boxed about the ears by a senior goddess and fled weeping to Zeus.
Q 20At which city's sanctuary of Artemis Orthia were boys ritually flogged at her altar?
Sparta
Sparta's sanctuary of Artemis Orthia hosted the diamastigosis, in which boys were whipped at the goddess's altar, a rite described by Plutarch and Pausanias.
Bear: arktos is the Greek for bear, and the link would explain Artemis's bear rites in Attica, though other etymologies of her name have been proposed.
Q 24At which Attic sanctuary did Athenian girls serve Artemis in the Arkteia rite before marriage?
Brauron
Brauron, on Attica's east coast, housed the sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, where Athenian girls served the goddess in the Arkteia rite before marriage.
Q 25Which Minoan goddess of mountains and hunting is thought to be a precursor of Artemis?
Britomartis
Britomartis, a Cretan goddess later called Diktynna, fled King Minos for nine months and leapt into the sea, landing in fishermen's nets, in Callimachus's hymn to Artemis.
Q 26Which god gave Artemis her hunting dogs, animals said to be able to hunt even lions?
Pan
Pan, met in Arcadia, gave Artemis her hounds in Callimachus's hymn: two black-and-white, three reddish and a spotted dog, able to drag even lions back alive.
Q 27Which of Heracles' labours was intended to enrage Artemis by capturing her sacred golden-horned animal?
The Ceryneian Hind
The Ceryneian Hind labour was Eurystheus's trap: Heracles pursued the hind for a year, then placated Artemis and her brother by blaming Eurystheus and promising to release it.
Q 28The 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 29Which son of Theseus, a chaste devotee of Artemis, was destroyed by Aphrodite's scheming?
Hippolytus
Hippolytus, son of Theseus, worshipped Artemis and scorned Aphrodite, who made his stepmother Phaedra desire him; his father's curse had him dragged to death by his own horses.
Q 30Artemis killed which pregnant princess of Thessaly, her brother's lover, for taking a mortal lover?
Coronis
Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas, lay with the mortal Ischys while pregnant by the god; Artemis shot her, and the unborn child, Asclepius, was cut from the pyre.