Which Greek God Are You?

You are the god of sky and thunder and the father of the rest of the gods, ruling both the divine and mortal realms from on high (Mount Olympus to be precise). Married to Hera, the goddess of women and marriage, Zeus was very unfaithful and fathered children by other women, too, including ordinary humans. This didn't stop him from being the ultimate arbiter of justice for everyone else. Zeus is often pictured as a strong, muscular man in the prime of his life with a full curly beard.

You are the god of the sea, earthquakes, storms, and horses. (Poseidon liked horses so much he actually transformed himself into a stallion so that he could father one.) Often depicted with his trident, he would smash this three-pronged spear into the ocean or the ground when he was annoyed, triggering earthquakes, tsunamis, shipwrecks, and the like. He rode in a chariot pulled through the sea by special swimming horses or dolphins and lived in a castle made of coral on the ocean floor.

You are the god of war. The son of Zeus and Hera, Ares was strong, brave, violent, and destructive. He liked to argue and would quickly escalate to force to get his way, if necessary. The Greeks revered him-but they also feared him mightily. He had eight children with his consort, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. (Even way back then, good girls were attracted to bad boys.)

You are the god of music and poetry, art, knowledge, medicine, and light. Weirdly, you are also the god of archery and the plague. Apollo was a very important god to the ancient Greeks, and an eternally youthful one, always depicted as an athletic youth who had not yet grown a beard. Apollo's twin sister was Artemis, the huntress.

You are the god of wine, fertility, the theater, madness, and ecstasy. Dionysus could veer between joy and rage at the drop of a hat. He was the only god with a mortal mother, a woman called Semele. (Zeus was, of course, his father.) The followers of Dionysus were often those who did not fit into normal society and they worshipped him at wild orgies in the woods (instead of through sedate rituals in temples).

You are the god of sleep. Hypnos's twin brother was Thanatos, the god of death. Hypnos lived in a doorless cave, surrounded by sleep-inducing plants like poppies. He was often depicted pouring water from the river of forgetfulness upon the heads of those he visited. He had three sons, all responsible for giving people different kinds of dreams.