The Mark of Athena (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Annabeth Chase: Annabeth is a daughter of Athena. She arrived at Camp Half-blood at age seven with a boy named Luke son of Hermes who would eventually betray hear and Thalia daughter of Zeus. Annabeth is dating Percy Jackson son of Poseidon. Her mother told her to follow the Mark of Athena to save the Athena Parthenos. Annabeth is a very intelligent girl (probably because her mom is the goddess of wisdom, obviously) and is in charge of the quest to lead five other demigods to save Rome from destruction.
• Percy Jackson: Percy is Poseidon's son and an extremely powerful demigod, even though he doesn't brag about it. He defeated the titan Kronos when he was only sixteen and turned down Zues's offer to make him a god so he could stay with Annabeth. Percy is dating Athena's daughter now and they were seperated a couple months ago. Now his is on a quest with another six demigods to save Rome. Percy, like other Greek demigods, went to Camp Half-blood. He arrived there at age twelve led by a satyr named Grover who is also his best friend.
• Piper McLean: Piper is the daughter of Aphrodite and Tristan McLean (a famous movie star). She has brown hair, multi-colored changing eyes, and can charmspeak people/objects (make them do whatever she says). Piper is also half Cherokee, and grew up with the Native American myths from her father and grandfather. She is dating Jason Grace. Piper went straight to the Greek camp when she was found (along with Jason and Leo), and became leader of the Aphrodite cabin.
• Leo Valdez: Leo is a son of Hephaestus. He is also a fire user which means that he can create and withstand fire. Ironically, he lost his mother to a freak accident where her workshop burst into flames. He is a prankster and once (on accident) he changed all the billboards in times square to say-- ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO! -- He is very sarcastic, and (kinda) likes Hazel, which complicates the whole love web.
• Reyna: Praetor of Camp Jupiter. Daughter of Bellona (Roman goddess of war; no Greek equivalent). Sister of Hylla, the Amazon queen. She fights with a dagger. Wants to believe the Greek demigods are friends.
• Nico Di Angelo: Nico is the son of Hades, and also the half brother of Hazel (who he brought out of the Fields of Asphodel, out of the Underworld). He journeyed to find and close the Doors of Death but was captured by Gaea's forces.
• Gaea: The Greek Earth mother. Gaea is awakening and is stirring her sons, (the Giants, but not the football team), into chaos. She is the real enemy the Seven demigods of the Prophecy must defeat. She is not the Mother Earth many believe her to be. Also needs to be kept "asleep", or she will destroy the world, for she is easily more powerful than all of the gods combined.
• Octavian: Octavian is an Apollo Legacy which means that he is the descendant of an Apollo demigod. He can be very jealous and vengeful. He doesn't seem like a very powerful person because of his over-haughty personality and unimpressive appearance, but he would make a very bad enemy. Reads prophecies from stuffed animals and murders teddy bears, which actually makes him a haruspex not an auger, as the book says. He is from the Roman camp. He doesn't believe uniting the Greek and Roman camps together is a good idea. When in battle he is always hiding behind his huge body guards.
• Frank Zhang: Frank is a son of Mars (Ares) and a distant descendant of Poseidon. He prefers to fight with a bow and arrow while his father prefers a spear. His brave mother died in Afghanistan, for she was in the military. He can change into any animal he wants at any given time. His life is tied to a piece of wood, and if it burns up he will die. Frank is Hazel's boyfriend, and goes to the Roman camp. He is a a kind person.
• Hazel Levesque: Hazel is a daughter of Pluto and can summon any kind of precious metal, for her mother accidentily cursed her with it and Pluto is known for it a little (she thinks Percy is the son of Neptune destined to free her from her curse). She is dating Frank. Her half brother is Nico (his dad is Hades, Pluto's Greek form). She has a horse named Arion (rescued during her encounter with Amazons). She fights with a spatha, a Roman cavalry sword. Also was originally born in the early nine-teen hundreds, and died at age 13 to stop Alcyeonus, a giant, from rising. She then went to the Fields of Asphodel for seventy years until Nico took her out of the underworld, around a year before the Greeks came with the warship.
• Jason Grace: Jason is the son of Jupiter (the Roman form of Zeus). He is Thalia Grace's long lost brother. He was one of the praetors of the Twelfth Legion. He has wind powers and can summon lightning. He is dating Piper McLean. He was one of the two demigods involved in the camp-switcheroo (Percy being the other). Since he can control the winds, he can will the air to make him fly. Sadly his sister Thalia has never tried so she doesn't think she can (because she's scared of heights).
• Blackjack: Percy's black Pegasus. Saved from Luke Castellan on the monster cruise ship (I mean monster as in there are hundreds of monsters on it) in book two of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Always asks Percy if he can have a donut because this Pegasus loves donuts. Helps Percy out whenever Percy needs him. Whenever Percy and the Pegasus meet, Blackjack likes to start the conversation by saying "Yo boss," to Percy.
• Tempest: Tempest is Jason Grace's ventus. Jason tamed him in the battle of the wolf house. Tempest is Jason's companion but he is a free spirit (so he comes when he chooses).
• Coach Hedge: Coach Hedge is a satyr who has accompanied Leo, Jason, and Piper on their quest. He is battle crazy, but is a loyal Keeper for Camp Half-Blood. He loves destruction and action, and always wants to bash something, sometimes resulting in an unwanted catastrophe. Since he likes chaotic stuff and killing enemies, he is known for randomly swinging his club yelling, "Die!", when anything unexpected happens.
• Narcissus: Son of Nemesis, he is really handsome and his mother put a curse on him so he fell in love with his reflection. He was cursed because he broke too many hearts in ancient Greek times, which angered some people...
• Echo: A nymph who fell in love with Narcissus who blends in with her surroundings, and is cursed to repeat the last thing she hears. Wants to save Narcissus from himself because he was cursed by Nemesis to fall in love with hi reflection.
• Arachne: The spider goddess cursed by Athena (Athena turned her into a spider for challenging her). Wants the gods to see her tapestries. Challenged Athena to a weaving contest (and, according to Athena, lost).
• Keto: The goddess of sea monsters. She works in an aquarium with Phorcys (her brother )
• Phorcys: One of the gods of the sea. He works in an aquarium, which has part of it dedicated to different mythological aquatic species. Is married to and brother of Keto another water goddess. Son of Gaea, and has inherited some of her evilness.
• Hera: Hera was the Greek queen of the Gods; she was Goddess of Marriage, Women, and Birth. She is married to Zeus. Her roman name is Juno. She is responsible for Percy's and Jason's memory loss
• Lord Bacchus: The Roman version of Dionysus and just as arrogant and stubborn. A little less of a potbelly, though.
• Dakota: A son Bacchus, who has a red Kool-Aid addiction, and is a senior officer in the legion.
• Ella: Is a harpy that Percy, hazel, and frank found .
• Bill: Add a description of this character.
• Miss Lamarr
• Remus
• Bellona
• Daedalus
• Sammy Valdez
• Athena
• Bythos
• Hylla
• Rachel Dare
• Achelous
• Zeus
• Romulus
• Raphael
• Flathead Rufus
• Rhea Silvia
• Chiron
• Mr. D
• Clark Gable
• Luke Castellan
• Nessus
• Lion Head
• Hagno
• Kate
• Festus
• Ephialtes
• Buford
• Hadrian
• Wolf Head
• Mrs. O'Leary
• Arion
• Demeter
• Helen
• Aphros
• Venus
• Audrey Hepburn
• Hermes
• Aunt Rosa
• Bianca di Angelo
• Marcus Agrippa
• Lord Hercules
• Tyson
• Pluto
• Chrysaor
• Ceres
• Deianira
• Neptune
• Thanatos
• Esperanza
• Mrs. Narcissus
• Esther
• Gregory Peck
• Earth Mother
• Thalia Grace
• Medusa
• Sally Jackson
• Lupa
• Otis
• Grover
• Nemesis
• Aurum
• Poseidon
• Saturn

Quotes edit see section history

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• “'Hey, How's it going?' 'Uh, no thanks.' 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' 'So, my hair is on fire.' 'Okay. In a while.'”

  Percy, Annabeth

• “He looks like a blonde superman.”

  Percy

• “Yes, that is exactly what you do to get out of Chinese handcuffs. You turn into an iguana.”

  Leo

• “I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts.”

  Leo

• “'What does Blackjack want?' 'Donuts. Always donuts.'”

  Piper and Percy

• “You trained Bill? Impressive.”

  Leo

• “Incredible. These are really good brownies.”

  Jason

• “The big mother knows all!”

  Ghost

• “Coming from her boyfriend, 'I've been thinking' was kind of a scary line.”

  Narrator (about Piper)

• “Valdez, which button blows up monsters?”

  Coach Hedge

• “Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was ready for anything.”

  Narrator (about Annabeth)

• “Percy threw his arms around her. They kissed, and for a moment nothing else mattered. An asteroid could have hit the planet and wiped out all life, and Annabeth wouldn't have cared.”

  Narrator (about Annabeth)

• “Hey, nice Power Ranger jammies.”

  Leo Valdez

• “Percy pointed his pizza slice at Jason. 'You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.'”

  Narrator (about Percy), Percy

• “Don't worry about that. Percy's a nice guy, but I get the feeling he needs a knock on the head every once in a while.”

  Jason

• “Shut up, Seaweed Brain. Just hold me for a while.”

  Annabeth

• “You're Captain Salt Water. Any ideas from the expert?”

  Jason

• “Dude, a goldfish?”

  Percy

• “What's going--Gah! Shrimpzilla!”

  Percy

• “'Behold!' Percy shouted. 'The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!'”

  Percy

• “Well, boys, looks like you chose the wrong war god.”

  Annabeth

• “Most of all she wanted Percy. She always felt braver when Percy was with her.”

  Narrator (about Annabeth)

• “The praetor was too alone, too bitter and betrayed to believe anything could go right for her ever again.”

  Narrator (about Reyna)

• “<Percy> pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.”

• “You have a good nature, Piper. And I'm a nature spirit. I know what I'm talking about.”

  Hagno

• “I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.”

  Percy

• “'No wonder they made you praetor.' Octavian snorted, 'Which means we now have three praetors! The rules clearly state we can only have two!' 'On the bright side,' Percy said, 'both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.'”

  Jason, Octavian, and Percy

• “'...do you realize what happened on this hill? Fank Zhang, you should know!' Frank flinched. 'I should?' 'A son of Ares stood here!' Hedge cried indigantly. 'I'm Roman...so Mars, actually.' 'Whatever! Famous spot in the American Civil War!' 'I'm Canadian actually.'”

  Coach Hedge and Frank

• “'Medusa is your mom? Dude, that sucks for you.'”

  Percy

• “So your brother is a winged horse. But you're also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my...You know what? Let's forget it.”

  Percy

• “Nico started to crawl away, groaning. Percy wanted him to move faster and groan less. He considered throwing his Wonder bread at him.”

• “Leo had modified the ships controles to play dubstep.”

• “Where's Percy?”

  Annabeth

• “'A Koi fish. Impressive.' 'What ? I'm trying!'”

  Percy, Frank

• “The plant war...you're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?”

  Percy

• “Annabeth wondered if that burning mark was based on a real sacred owl. If so, when she survived, she was going to find that owl and punch it in the face.”

  Narrator (Annabeth)

• “A beam of sunlight slanted into the rotunda and glowed on the floor, like Zeus was up there with a magnifying glass, trying to fry puny humans.”

  Narrator (Leo)

• “'Everyone hates clowns. Even other clowns hate clowns.'”

  Otis

• “The Nutcracker bites!”

  Percy

• “Festus, raise the sails. We've got some friends to save.”

  Leo

• “Percy looked down, suddenly interested in his cheeseburger”

  Narrator (Percy)

• “His frilled collar and skull were badly burned as if the guy had tried to wash his hair with a blowtorch”

  Narrator

• “"Hera (or Juno, take your pick, she was equially annoying in Greek and Roman)"”

  Jason

• “"We've got a dam hole"”

  Percy

• “"Even by demigod standards, Leo was seriously ADHD"”

  Narrator (Annabeth)

• “We have to kill those Greeks!”

  Octavian

• “"Food first"”

  Percy

• “Me I'm the ruler of the page just like wikipedia”

  Aj

• “"I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?""I hate Wonder bread."”

  Percy, Piper, Jason

• “Then Heracles appeared from the pile of food with a pineapple on his head like a helmet and yelled at the top of his lungs "kill!" like he had a lot of practice saying that word.”

  PiperNarrator

• “I was born for hurt!”

  Coach Hedge

• “'I was the weasel,'”

  Frank

• “'Piper must've been nervous, because her cornucopia spit out a cheeseburge.'”

  Narrator (about Piper)

• “The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!”

  Bacchus

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• Camp Jupiter: The camp for Roman demigods.
• Great Salt Lake, Utah: Where the demigods find repair materials for their ship the Argo II
• Atlanta, GA
• Rome, Italy: Where Gaea plans to begin doomsday on the world.
• Tartarus: Where monsters go when they die. Basically the Hell of the Underworld.
• Camp Half-blood: Camp for Greek demigods.
• Earth(Gaea): The earth goddess. She wants to bring down humanity.
• Fort Sumter
• Charleston, South Carolina

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• Camp Jupiter: The Roman camp that houses Roman demigods in Berkeley, California. They worship the Roman gods. Has very beautiful architecture, and a small city where Roman demigods can go to college, and live in peace after doing 10 years of service to Camp Jupiter.
• Camp Half-Blood: The Greek camp that houses Greek demigods in Long Island Sound, New York. They follow the Greek gods. Their camp counselor is Chiron, a centaur and their Camp Director is Dionysis god of wine.
• Mt. Olympus: In the lobby of the Empire State Building there is an elevator only accessible by gods or demigods. If you give the guard a drachma, he will let you into it. Just press the 600th floor button.No human can enter Mt. Olympus.
• Empire State Building's 600th floor: To get to 600th floor you have to get a special card from guard. After you give him a gold drachma he will give you the card.You then go into the elevator and enter the card in a slot and the 600th floor button will appear.Push the 600th floor button and it will take you to Olympus.

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• Amazons: Warrior women in charge of the company Amazon we know today.
• Archimedes: A great builder and mathematician.
• argentum: Silver in Latin.
• Argo II: The fully decked-out war trireme Leo built for the seven demigods from the Prophecy of Seven.
• Athena Parthenos: A statue dedicated to Athena but lost after the Romans stole it when they overtook Greece.
• augury: Tells the future for Rome using animal guts (now stuffed animals) currently Octavian
• aurum: Gold in Latin.
• Bacchus: The Roman god of wine and revelry. Greek form: Dionysus
• ballista (ballistae, pl.): A Roman missile seige weapon that launched a large projectile at a distant target.
• Bellona: A Roman goddess of war.
• Camp Half-Blood: The training ground for Greek demigods, located on Long Island, New York.
• Camp Jupiter: The training ground for Roman demigods, located between the Oakland Hills and the Berkeley Hills, in California.
• Celestial Bronze: A rare metal deadly to monsters.
• Centaur: A race of creatures that is half human, half horse.
• Centurion: An officer of the Roman army.
• Praetor: an elected Roman magistrate and commander of the army
• Scorpion Ballista: a Roman missile siege weapon that launched a large projectile at a distant target

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• S.P.Q.R: The symbol of the Roman army, it's burnt on every Roman demigod's arm. It is Camp Jupiter's equivalent of the bead necklace from Camp Half-Blood. Also means the Senate and the people of Rome.
• Friendship: Friendship is very important in these books as the demigods form bonds over their adventures.
• Teamwork: The demigods must work together no matter if they are Roman or Greek. They are all part of the same team.
• Adventure: Describe this theme.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Son of Neptune, and followed by House of Hades.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Rick Riordan (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. John Rocco (Cover Artist)
2. Joann Hill (Designer)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PZ7.R4829Mar 2012
• Dewey: Add the Dewey Classification.

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Moderate allusion to Percy and Annabeth while alone all night, by other characters. Nothing actually happened. Some violence and monster-fighting.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy

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• Rick Riordan

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