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Greek Gods

percyjacksonfan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:47:32 CDT

CLICK ON THE GODS TO GO TO THEIR PAGES

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Zeus
Poseidon
Hades
Apollo
Artemis
Hephaestus
Athena
Aphrodite
Dionysus
Hestia
Demeter
Hermes
Ares
Hera

The Titans

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:15:33 CDT

Tartarus

Kronos
Atlas
Oceananos

Rick Riordan Videos

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Rick Riordan

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Rick Riordan

Dear Mortal Reader, Welcome to the Percy Jackson Wiki. Be advised: my publishers have forced me to present Percy Jackson’s story as fiction. To prevent mass hysteria from sweeping the globe, I must deny that the gods of Olympus are still among us, and that mythological monsters walk the earth. Under no circumstances should you believe that you – Yes, you! – might be a son or daughter of the Greek gods. Percy Jackson sends his regards. He is presently attending school in New York, fending off monstrous teachers, poisonous cafeteria food, and the other usual perils of seventh grade. He has not been kicked out yet, but he still has several months to go, so he has not given up hope. As for me, Rick Riordan I’m in San Antonio, Texas, with my wife and two sons documenting Percy’s next unbelievable adventure.
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The Last Olympian

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Atlas

percyjacksonfan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:39:21 CDT

The Titan Atlas was one of the Mythological Titans of Greece who had to support the heaven with his shoulders. That was a punishment that he got from Zeus because he participate against the Olympian gods with the giants, in the war between gods and giants. His father was a Titan, Lapetus, and his mother Clymene, a nymph. He also had a brother called Prometheus. Atlas's children were the seven Hesperids who protected the tree with apples made of gold. He was also the father or protector of the Atlants, a people in Morocko.

When Perseus showed Atlas the head of Medusa, Atlas turned into a mountain chain which was believed to have stretched from Africa to Spain until Heracles broke it, thus creating the Pillars of Hercules, in modern geography: Gibraltar. He also helped Hercules to get the Hesperides apples in return that Hercules had to carry the heaven as long Atlas was bringing the apples.

Kronos

percyjacksonfan — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:11:26 CDT

Cronus, the son of Uranus and Gaia and the youngest of the twelve Titans. His wife was also one of the Titans, since he married his sister Rhea. Their offspring were Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon and Zeus. It is written that Uranus, who in one version, hid his children away in the bowels of the earth (Tartarus) as he was aghast at the sight of them, in reality he was fearful of their great strength and power. Gaia found her offspring uncomfortable and also painful and when she found the discomfort too much to bear she hatched a plan, which was to end the passions of Uranus, so no more offspring could be produced and that would be the ending of her hurt. But to achieve this she required the help from one of her children. She asked them all, but only her youngest child Cronus would heed her call. To help Cronus accomplish his task Gaia gave him a adamantine sickle to serve as his weapon. Cronus lay in wait hidden from view, and when Uranus came to lay with Gaia Cronus struck. With one mighty blow from the sickle Cronus severed the genitals from Uranus' body. From the blood which fell to the earth (Gaia) where born the Erinyes (Furies), the Giants and also the Meliae (Nymphs of the manna ash trees). In other versions Aphrodite was born from the foam created from the sex organs of Uranus, after they had been thrown into the sea by Cronus. Once Cronus had castrated Uranus, he and his wife Rhea took the throne. Under their power a time of harmony and prosperity began, which became known as the "Golden Age"; a time when it was said that people lived without greed or violence, and without toil or the need for laws. But not all was well for Cronus, as it was fated that he would be overthrown by one of his own children. To prevent this from happening he began to swallow his newborn, taking them at birth then swallowing them whole, retaining them inside his own body where they could do him no harm. Rhea did not like the thoughts of losing all her children, and with the help of Gaia she saved Zeus from this fate. Rhea wrapped a stone in Zeus' swaddling clothes which Cronus took and immediately swallowed thinking it was the child. Gaia and Rhea's plan worked well and the baby Zeus was taken to Crete, and there, in a cave on Mount Dicte, the divine goat Amaltheia suckled and raised the infant Zeus. When Zeus had grown into a young man he returned to his fathers domain, and with the help of Gaia, compelled Cronus to regurgitate the five children he had previously swallowed. (In some versions Zeus received help from Metis who gave Cronus an emetic potion, which made him vomit up Zeus' brothers and sisters). Zeus led the revolt against his father and the dynasty of the Titans, defeated and then banished them. The Romans compared Cronus with their Saturn, who was to the Romans a corn god. This is from the association of the "Golden Age". In Athens on the 12th day of the month Hekatombaion a festival was held in honour of Cronus, which was known as the "Kronia". It was a celebration of the harvest. In art, Cronus was depicted carrying a sickle used to gather the harvest, but this was also the weapon he used to castrate his father.

Twelve Labors of Hercules

percyjacksonfan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:58:41 CDT

Labor 1: Nemean Lion
Initially, Hercules was required to complete ten labors, not twelve. King Eurystheus decided Hercules' first task would be to bring him the skin of an invulnerable lion which terrorized the hills around Nemea.
Setting out on such a seemingly impossible labor, Hercules came to a town called Cleonae, where he stayed at the house of a poor workman-for-hire, Molorchus. When his host offered to sacrifice an animal to pray for a safe lion hunt, Hercules asked him to wait 30 days. If the hero returned with the lion's skin, they would sacrifice to Zeus, king of the gods. If Hercules died trying to kill the lion, Molorchus agreed to sacrifice instead to Hercules, as a hero.
When Hercules got to Nemea and began tracking the terrible lion, he soon discovered his arrows were useless against the beast. Hercules picked up his club and went after the lion. Following it to a cave which had two entrances, Hercules blocked one of the doorways, then approached the fierce lion through the other. Grasping the lion in his mighty arms, and ignoring its powerful claws, he held it tightly until he'd choked it to death.
Hercules returned to Cleonae, carrying the dead lion, and found Molorchus on the 30th day after he'd left for the hunt. Instead of sacrificing to Hercules as a dead man, Molorchus and Hercules were able to sacrifice together, to Zeus. When Hercules made it back to Mycenae, Eurystheus was amazed that the hero had managed such an impossible task. The king became afraid of Hercules, and forbade him from entering through the gates of the city. Furthermore, Eurystheus had a large bronze jar made and buried partway in the earth, where he could hide from Hercules if need be. After that, Eurystheus sent his commands to Hercules through a herald, refusing to see the powerful hero face to face.

Many times we can identify Hercules in ancient Greek vase paintings or sculptures simply because he is depicted wearing a lion skin. Ancient writers disagreed as to whether the skin Hercules wore was that of the Nemean lion, or one from a different lion, which Hercules was said to have killed when he was 18 years old. The playwright Euripides wrote that Hercules' lion skin came from the grove of Zeus, the sanctuary at Nemea.
Labor 2: The Lernean Hydra
The second labor of Hercules was to kill the Lernean Hydra. From the murky waters of the swamps near a place called Lerna, the hydra would rise up and terrorize the countryside. A monstrous serpent with nine heads, the hydra attacked with poisonous venom. Nor was this beast easy prey, for one of the nine heads was immortal and therefore indestructible.
Hercules set off to hunt the nine-headed menace, but he did not go alone. His trusty nephew, Iolaus, was by his side. Iolaus, who shared many adventures with Hercules, accompanied him on many of the twelve labors. Legend has it that Iolaus won a victory in chariot racing at the Olympics and he is often depicted as Hercules' charioteer. So, the pair drove to Lerna and by the springs of Amymone, they discovered the lair of the loathsome hydra.
First, Hercules lured the coily creature from the safety of its den by shooting flaming arrows at it. Once the hydra emerged, Hercules seized it. The monster was not so easily overcome, though, for it wound one of its coils around Hercules' foot and made it impossible for the hero to escape. With his club, Hercules attacked the many heads of the hydra, but as soon as he smashed one head, two more would burst forth in its place! To make matters worse, the hydra had a friend of its own: a huge crab began biting the trapped foot of Hercules. Quickly disposing of this nuisance, most likely with a swift bash of his club, Hercules called on Iolaus to help him out of this tricky situation. Each time Hercules bashed one of the hydra's heads, Iolaus held a torch to the headless tendons of the neck. The flames prevented the growth of replacement heads, and finally, Hercules had the better of the beast. Once he had removed and destroyed the eight mortal heads, Hercules chopped off the ninth, immortal head. This he buried at the side of the road leading from Lerna to Elaeus, and for good measure, he covered it with a heavy rock. As for the rest of the hapless hydra, Hercules slit open the corpse and dipped his arrows in the venomous blood.
Eurystheus was not impressed with Hercules' feat, however. He said that since Iolaus had helped his uncle, this labor should not count as one of the ten. This technicality didn't seem to matter much to anyone else: the ancient authors still give Hercules all of the credit. Even so, Pausanias did not think that this labor was as fantastic as the myths made it out to be: to him, the fearsome hydra was just, well, a big water snake.

Labor 3: The Hind of Ceryneia
For the third labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Hind of Ceryneia. Now, before we go any further, we'll have to answer two questions: What is a hind? and, Where is Ceryneia? Ceryneia is a town in Greece, about fifty miles from Eurystheus' palace in Mycenae.
A hind is simply a female red deer.
You'd think it would have been easy for a hero like Hercules to go shoot a deer and bring it back to Eurystheus, but a few problems made things complicated. This was a special deer, because it had golden horns and hoofs of bronze. Not only that, the deer was sacred to the goddess of hunting and the moon, Diana; she was Diana's special pet. That meant that Hercules could neither kill the deer nor hurt her. He couldn't risk getting Diana angry at him; he was already in enough trouble with Hera.
Hercules set out on this adventure, and he hunted the deer for a whole year. At last, when the deer had become weary with the chase, she looked for a place to rest on a mountain called Artemisius, and then made her way to the river Ladon. Realizing that the deer was about to get away, Hercules shot her just as she was about to cross the stream. He caught the deer, put her on his shoulders and turned back to Mycenae. As Hercules hurried on his way, he was met by Diana and Apollo. Diana was very angry because Hercules tried to kill her sacred animal. She was about to take the deer away from Hercules, and surely she would have punished him, but Hercules told her the truth. He said that he had to obey the oracle and do the labors Eurystheus had given him. Diana let go of her anger and healed the deer's wound. Hercules carried it alive to Mycenae.

Labor 4: The Erymanthian Boar
For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the Erymanthian boar alive. Now, a boar is a huge, wild pig with a bad temper, and tusks growing out of its mouth.
This one was called the Erymanthian boar, because it lived on a mountain called Erymanthus. Every day the boar would come crashing down from his lair on the mountain, attacking men and animals all over the countryside, gouging them with its tusks, and destroying everything in its path.
On his way to hunt the boar, Hercules stopped to visit his friend Pholus, who was a centaur and lived in a cave near Mount Erymanthus. Everyone knows that centaur is a human from his head to his waist, and a horse for the rest of his body and his legs. Hercules was hungry and thirsty, so the kindly centaur cooked Hercules some meat in the fireplace, while he himself ate his meat raw.
When Hercules asked for wine, Pholus said that he was afraid to open the wine jar, because it belonged to all the centaurs in common. But Hercules said not to worry, and opened it himself. Soon afterwards, the rest of the centaurs smelled the wine and came to Pholus's cave. They were angry that someone was drinking all of their wine. The first two who dared to enter were armed with rocks and fir trees.
Hercules grabbed burning sticks from the fireplace and threw them at the centaurs, then went after them with his club.
He shot arrows at the rest of them and chased after them for about twenty miles. The rest of the centaurs fled in different directions. One of the centaurs, Chiron, received a wound that no amount of medicine would heal...but what happened to Chiron is another story. While Hercules was gone, Pholus pulled an arrow from the body of one of the dead centaurs. He wondered that so little a thing could kill such a big creature. Suddenly, the arrow slipped from his hand. It fell onto his foot and killed him on the spot. So when Hercules returned, he found Pholus dead. He buried his centaur friend, and proceeded to hunt the boar. It wasn't too hard for Hercules to find the boar. He could hear the beast snorting and stomping as it rooted around for something to eat. Hercules chased the boar round and round the mountain, shouting as loud as he could. The boar, frightened and out of breath, hid in a thicket. Hercules poked his spear into the thicket and drove the exhausted animal into a deep patch of snow.
Then he trapped the boar in a net, and carried it all the way to Mycenae. Eurystheus, again amazed and frightened by the hero's powers, hid in his partly buried bronze jar.

Labor 5: Augean Stables
For the fifth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to clean up King Augeas' stables. Hercules knew this job would mean getting dirty and smelly, but sometimes even a hero has to do these things. Then Eurystheus made Hercules' task even harder: he had to clean up after the cattle of Augeas in a single day. Now King Augeas owned more cattle than anyone in Greece. Some say that he was a son of one of the great gods, and others that he was a son of a mortal; whosever son he was, Augeas was very rich, and he had many herds of cows, bulls, goats, sheep and horses.
Every night the cowherds, goatherds and shepherds drove the thousands of animals to the stables.
Hercules went to King Augeas, and without telling anything about Eurystheus, said that he would clean out the stables in one day, if Augeas would give him a tenth of his fine cattle.
Augeas couldn't believe his ears, but promised. Hercules brought Augeas's son along to watch. First the hero tore a big opening in the wall of the cattle-yard where the stables were. Then he made another opening in the wall on the opposite side of the yard. Next, he dug wide trenches to two rivers which flowed nearby. He turned the course of the rivers into the yard. The rivers rushed through the stables, flushing them out, and all the mess flowed out the hole in the wall on other side of the yard.
When Augeas learned that Eurystheus was behind all this, he would not pay Hercules his reward. Not only that, he denied that he had even promised to pay a reward. Augeas said that if Hercules didn't like it, he could take the matter to a judge to decide. The judge took his seat. Hercules called the son of Augeas to testify. The boy swore that his father had agreed to give Hercules a reward. The judge ruled that Hercules would have to be paid. In a rage, Augeas ordered both his own son and Hercules to leave his kingdom at once. So the boy went to the north country to live with his aunts, and Hercules headed back to Mycenae. But Eurystheus said that this labour didn't count, because Hercules was paid for having done the work.

Labor 6: The Stymphalian Birds
After Hercules returned from his success in the Augean stables, Eurystheus came up with an even more difficult task. For the sixth Labor, Hercules was to drive away an enormous flock of birds which gathered at a lake near the town of Stymphalos. Arriving at the lake, which was deep in the woods, Hercules had no idea how to drive the huge gathering of birds away. The goddess Athena came to his aid, providing a pair of bronze krotala, noisemaking clappers similar to castanets. These were no ordinary noisemakers. They had been made by an immortal craftsman, Hephaistos, the god of the forge.
Climbing a nearby mountain, Hercules clashed the krotala loudly, scaring the birds out of the trees, then shot them with bow and arrow, or possibly with a slingshot, as they took flight.
Some versions of the legend say that these Stymphalian birds were vicious man-eaters. The 2nd century A.D. travel writer, Pausanias, trying to discover what kind of birds they might have been, wrote that during his time a type of bird from the Arabian desert was called "Stymphalian," describing them as equal to lions or leopards in their fierceness. He speculated that the birds Hercules encountered in the legend were similar to these Arabian birds.Pausanias also saw and described the religious sanctuary built by the Greeks of Stymphalos and dedicated to the goddess Artemis. He reported that the temple had carvings of the Stymphalian birds up near its roof. Standing behind the temple, he saw marble statues of maidens with the legs of birds.

Labor 7: Cretan Bull
After the complicated business with the Stymphalian Birds, Hercules easily disposed of the Cretan Bull. At that time, Minos, King of Crete, controlled many of the islands in the seas around Greece, and was such a powerful ruler that the Athenians sent him tribute every year. There are many bull stories about Crete. Zeus, in the shape of a bull, had carried Minos' mother Europa to Crete, and the Cretans were fond of the sport of bull-leaping, in which contestants grabbed the horns of a bull and were thrown over its back.
Minos himself, in order to prove his claim to the throne, had promised the sea-god Poseidon that he would sacrifice whatever the god sent him from the sea. Poseidon sent a bull, but Minos thought it was too beautiful to kill, and so he sacrificed another bull. Poseidon was furious with Minos for breaking his promise. In his anger, he made the bull rampage all over Crete, and caused Minos' wife Pasiphae to fall in love with the animal. As a result, Pasiphae gave birth to the Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man. Minos had to shut up this beast in the Labyrinth, a huge maze underneath the palace, and every year he fed it prisoners from Athens. When Hercules got to Crete, he easily wrestled the bull to the ground and drove it back to King Eurystheus. Eurystheus let the bull go free. It wandered around Greece, terrorizing the people, and ended up in Marathon, a city near Athens.
The Athenian hero Theseus tied up some loose ends of this story. He killed the Cretan Bull at Marathon. Later, he sailed to Crete, found his way to the center of the Labyrinth, and killed the Minotaur.

Labor 8: The Man-eating Horses of Doimedes
After Hercules had captured the Cretan Bull, Eurystheus sent him to get the man-eating mares of Diomedes, the king of a Thracian tribe called the Bistones, and bring them back to him in Mycenae. According to Apollodorus, Hercules sailed with a band of volunteers across the Aegean to Bistonia. There he and his companions overpowered the grooms who were tending the horses, and drove them to the sea. But by the time he got there, the Bistones had realized what had happened, and they sent a band of soldiers to recapture the animals. To free himself to fight, Hercules entrusted the mares to a youth named Abderos.
Unfortunately, the mares got the better of young Abderos and dragged him around until he was killed.
Meanwhile Hercules fought the Bistones, killed Diomedes, and made the rest flee. In honor of the slain Abderos, Hercules founded the city of Abdera.
The hero took the mares back to Eurystheus, but Eurystheus set them free. The mares wandered around until eventually they came to Mount Olympos, the home of the gods, where they were eaten by wild beasts.
Euripides gives two different versions of the story, but both of them differ from Apollodorus's in that Hercules seems to be performing the labor alone, rather than with a band of followers. In one, Diomedes has the four horses harnessed to a chariot, and Hercules has to bring back the chariot as well as the horses. In the other, Hercules tames the horses from his own chariot:

Labor 9: The Belt of Hippolyte
For the ninth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to bring him the belt of Hippolyte [Hip-POLLY-tee]. This was no ordinary belt and no ordinary warrior. Hippolyte was queen of the Amazons, a tribe of women warriors.
These Amazons had nothing to do with the Amazon river in South America. Their name comes from a Greek word meaning "missing one breast." This is because an Amazon's right breast got in the way when she threw a spear. The Amazons lived apart from men, and if they ever gave birth to children, they kept only the females and reared them to be warriors like themselves. Queen Hippolyte had a special piece of armor. It was a leather belt that had been given to her by Ares, the war god, because she was the best warrior of all the Amazons. She wore this belt across her chest and used it to carry her sword and spear. Eurystheus wanted Hippolyte's belt as a present to give to his daughter, and he sent Hercules to bring it back. Hercules' friends realized that the hero could not fight against the whole Amazon army by himself, so they joined with him and set sail in a single ship.
After a long journey, they reached the land of the Amazons and put in at the harbor. When Hercules and the Greeks got off the boat, Hippolyte came down to visit them.
She asked Hercules why he had come, and when he told her, she promised to give him the belt. But the goddess Hera knew that the arrival of Hercules meant nothing but trouble for the Amazons. Disguised as an Amazon warrior, Hera went up and down the army saying to each woman that the strangers who had arrived were going to carry off the queen. So the Amazons put on their armor. The women warriors charged on horseback down to the ship.But when Hercules saw that they were wearing their armor and were carrying their weapons, he knew that he was under attack. Thinking fast, he drew his sword and killed Hippolyte.
Then he undid her belt and took it away from her. Hercules and the Greeks fought the rest of the Amazons in a great battle.When the enemy had been driven off, Hercules sailed away. After a stopover at the city of Troy, Hercules returned to Mycenae, and he gave the belt to Eurystheus.

Labor 9: The Cattle of Greyon
To accomplish his tenth labor, Hercules had to journey to the end of the world. Eurystheus ordered the hero to bring him the cattle of the monster Geryon.
Geryon lived on an island called Erythia, which was near the boundary of Europe and Libya. On this island, Geryon kept a herd of red cattle guarded by Cerberus's brother, Orthus, a two-headed hound, and the herdsman Eurytion. Hercules set off on for Erythia, encountering and promptly killing many wild beasts along the way, and he came to the place where Libya met Europe. Here, Apollodorus tells us, Hercules built two massive mountains, one in Europe and one in Libya, to commemorate his extensive journey. Other accounts say that Hercules split one mountain into two. Either way, these mountains became known as the Gates or Pillars of Hercules. The strait Hercules made when he broke the mountain apart is now called the Strait of Gibraltar, between Spain and Morocco, the gateway from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean. Sailing in a goblet which the Sun gave him in admiration, Hercules reached the island of Erythia. Not long after he arrived, Orthus, the two-headed dog, attacked Hercules, so Hercules bashed him with his club. Eurytion followed, with the same result. Another herdsman in the area reported these events to Geryon. Just as Hercules was escaping with the cattle, Geryon attacked him. Hercules fought with him and shot him dead with his arrows.
Geryon was the son of Chrysaor and Callirrhoe. Chrysaor had sprung from the body of the Gorgon Medusa after Perseus beheaded her, and Callirrhoe was the daughter of two Titans, Oceanus and Tethys. With such distinguished lineage, it is no surprise that Geryon himself was quite unique. It seems that Geryon had three heads and three sets of legs all joined at the waist.
Then he undid her belt and took it away from her. Hercules and the Greeks fought the rest of the Amazons in a great battle.
The stealing of the cattle was not such a difficult task, compared to the trouble Hercules had bringing the herd back to Greece. In Liguria, two sons of Poseidon, the god of the sea, tried to steal the cattle, so he killed them. At Rhegium, a bull got loose and jumped into the sea. The bull swam to Sicily and then made its way to the neighboring country. The native word for bull was "italus," and so the country came to be named after the bull, and was called Italy. The escaped bull was found by a ruler named Eryx, another of Poseidon's sons, and Eryx put this bull into his own herd. Meanwhile, Hercules was searching for the runaway animal. He temporarily entrusted the rest of the herd to the god Hephaestus, and went after the bull. He found it in Eryx's herd, but the king would return it only if the hero could beat him in a wrestling contest. Never one to shy away from competition, Hercules beat Eryx three times in wrestling, killed the king, took back the bull, and returned it to the herd.
Hercules made it to the edge of the Ionian Sea, with the end of his journey finally in sight. Hera, however, was not about to let the hero accomplish this labor. She sent a gadfly to attack the cattle, and the herd scattered far and wide. Now, Hercules had to run around Thrace gathering the escaped cows. Finally, he regrouped the herd and, blaming his troubles on the river Strymon in Thrace, he filled the river with rocks, making it unnavigable. Then, he brought the cattle of Geryon to Eurystheus, who sacrificed the herd to Hera. The ancients don't tell us how long either Hercules or Europe took to recover from this eventful jaunt.

Labor 11: The Apples of the Hesperides
Poor Hercules! After eight years and one month, after performing ten superhuman labors, he was still not off the hook. Eurystheus demanded two more labors from the hero, since he did not count the hydra or the Augean stables as properly done. Eurystheus commanded Hercules to bring him golden apples which belonged to Zeus, king of the gods. Hera had given these apples to Zeus as a wedding gift, so surely this task was impossible. Hera, who didn't want to see Hercules succeed, would never permit him to steal one of her prize possessions, would she? These apples were kept in a garden at the northern edge of the world, and they were guarded not only by a hundred-headed dragon, named Ladon, but also by the Hesperides, nymphs who were daughters of Atlas, the titan who held the sky and the earth upon his shoulders.
Hercules' first problem was that he didn't know where the garden was. He journeyed through Libya, Egypt, Arabia, and Asia, having adventures along the way. He was stopped by Kyknos, the son of the war god, Ares, who demanded that Hercules fight him. After the fight was broken up by a thunderbolt, Hercules continued on to Illyria, where he seized the sea-god Nereus, who knew the garden's secret location. Nereus transformed himself into all kinds of shapes,trying to escape, but Hercules held tight and didn't release Nereus until he got the information he needed.
Continuing on his quest, Hercules was stopped by Antaeus, the son of the sea god, Poseidon, who also challenged Hercules to fight. Hercules defeated him in a wrestling match, lifting him off the ground and crushing him, because when Antaeus touched the earth he became stronger. After that, Hercules met up with Busiris, another of Poseidon's sons, was captured, and was led to an altar to be a human sacrifice. But Hercules escaped, killing Busiris, and journeyed on.
Hercules came to the rock on Mount Caucasus where Prometheus was chained. Prometheus, a trickster who made fun of the gods and stole the secret of fire from them, was sentenced by Zeus to a horrible fate. He was bound to the mountain, and every day a monstrous eagle came and ate his liver, pecking away at Prometheus' tortured body. After the eagle flew off, Prometheus' liver grew back, and the next day he had to endure the eagle's painful visit all over again. This went on for 30 years, until Hercules showed up and killed the eagle. In gratitude, Prometheus told Hercules the secret to getting the apples. He would have to send Atlas after them, instead of going himself. Atlas hated holding up the sky and the earth so much that he would agree to the task of fetching the apples, in order to pass his burden over to Hercules. Everything happened as Prometheus had predicted, and Atlas went to get the apples while Hercules was stuck in Atlas's place, with the weight of the world literally on his shoulders.
When Atlas returned with the golden apples, he told Hercules he would take them to Eurystheus himself, and asked Hercules to stay there and hold the heavy load for the rest of time. Hercules slyly agreed, but asked Atlas whether he could take it back again, just for a moment, while the hero put some soft padding on his shoulders to help him bear the weight of the sky and the earth. Atlas put the apples on the ground, and lifted the burden onto his own shoulders. And so Hercules picked up the apples and quickly ran off, carrying them back, uneventfully, to Eurystheus.
There was one final problem: because they belonged to the gods, the apples could not remain with Eurystheus. After all the trouble Hercules went through to get them, he had to return them to Athena, who took them back to the garden at the northern edge of the world.

Labor 12: Cerberus
The most dangerous labor of all was the twelfth and final one. Eurystheus ordered Hercules to go to the Underworld and kidnap the beast called Cerberus (or Kerberos). Eurystheus must have been sure Hercules would never succeed at this impossible task! The ancient Greeks believed that after a person died, his or her spirit went to the world below and dwelled for eternity in the depths of the earth. The Underworld was the kingdom of Hades, also called Pluto, and his wife, Persephone. Depending on how a person lived his or her life, they might or might not experience never-ending punishment in Hades. All souls, whether good or bad, were destined for the kingdom of Hades.
Cerberus was a vicious beast that guarded the entrance to Hades and kept the living from entering the world of the dead. According to Apollodorus, Cerberus was a strange mixture of creatures: he had three heads of wild dogs, a dragon or serpent for a tail, and heads of snakes all over his back. Hesiod, though, says that Cerberus had fifty heads and devoured raw flesh.
Cerberus' parents were the monster Echinda (half-woman, half-serpent) and Typhon (a fire-breathing giant covered with dragons and serpents). Even the gods of Olympus were afraid of Typhon. Among the children attributed to this awful couple were Orthus (or Othros), the Hydra of Lerna, and the Chimaera. Orthus was a two-headed hound which guarded the cattle of Geryon. With the Chimaera, Orthus fathered the Nemean Lion and the Sphinx. The Chimaera was a three-headed fire-breathing monster, part lion, part snake, and part goat. Hercules seemed to have a lot of experience dealing with this family: he killed Orthus, when he stole the cattle of Geryon, and strangled the Nemean Lion. Compared to these unfortunate family members, Cerberus was actually rather lucky.
Before making the trip to the Underworld, Hercules decided that he should take some extra precautions. This was, after all, a journey from which no mortal had ever returned. Hercules knew that once in the kingdom of Hades, he might not be allowed to leave and rejoin the living. The hero went to Eleusis and saw Eumolpus, a priest who began what were known as the Eleusinian Mysteries. The mysteries were sacred religious rites which celebrated the myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. The ancients believed that those who learned the secrets of the mysteries would have happiness in the Underworld. After the hero met a few conditions of membership, Eumolpus initiated Hercules into the mysteries. Hercules went to a place called Taenarum in Laconia. Through a deep, rocky cave, Hercules made his way down to the Underworld. He encountered monsters, heroes, and ghosts as he made his way through Hades. He even engaged in a wrestling contest! Then, finally, he found Pluto and asked the god for Cerberus. The lord of the Underworld replied that Hercules could indeed take Cerberus with him, but only if he overpowered the beast with nothing more than his own brute strength. A weaponless Hercules set off to find Cerberus. Near the gates of Acheron, one of the five rivers of the Underworld, Hercules encountered Cerberus. Undaunted, the hero threw his strong arms around the beast, perhaps grasping all three heads at once, and wrestled Cerberus into submission. The dragon in the tail of the fierce flesh-eating guard dog bit Hercules, but that did not stop him. Cerberus had to submit to the force of the hero, and Hercules brought Cerberus to Eurystheus. Unlike other monsters that crossed the path of the legendary hero, Cerberus was returned safely to Hades, where he resumed guarding the gateway to the Underworld. Presumably, Hercules inflicted no lasting damage on Cerberus, except, of course, the wound to his pride!

Percy Jackson

percyjacksonfan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:42:41 CDT

It's a weird picture, I know.

History
Percy Jackson was raised as a single child to a single mother-his birth mother. When he was at the right age of being discovered by a satyr, one satyr named Grover found him (disguised as a human.) At a school field trip Mrs. Dodds turns out to be a monster and attacks him. Mr. Brunner, a Centaur disguised as Percy's Latin teacher, gives him a pen which turns into a sword (later on mentioned as Riptide) and Percy barely beats Mrs. Dodds. And nobody at his school remembers Mrs. Dodds.
After some events, in which his mom "dies", Percy ends up at Camp Half-Blood. He is at first sent to Hermes' Cabin led by Luke. After a capture the flag game he is found out to be the son of Poseidon, which means Poseidon broke his oath not to have any children.
Percy is then selected to go on a mission to retrieve Zues' Thunderbolt. He does this with Annabeth and Grover Underwood. After they discover the thief was Ares, Percy challenged him and managed to beat the God of War by stabbing him in the ankle. He also managed to bring his mom back, as she never died.
After a whole school year, he goes back to camp in which he discovers Grover is missing. Percy and Annabeth go on a long mission to save him, while Clarisse is also sent.

CAMP HALF-BLOOD End-of-Summer Report
Dear Percy Jackson,
Below is your progress report for the summer, which will be sent home to your parents. We are happy to report that your marks are passable, so you will not be fed to the harpies at the present time. Please review and sign for our records.
Sincerely,
Chiron, activities director and Dionysus, camp director
ActivityGradeComments

Monster-Maiming	A	Percy shows great aptitude at lopping off limbs.
Defence	B	Percy almost got killed several times this summer. Good job! He needs to concentrate on minding his surroundings and not getting bitten by poisonous scorpions.
Swordfighting	A+	Percy’s sword skills are excellent. However, it would be better if he could fight without dousing himself in salt water first.
Team Spirit	C	Percy gets in occasional fights with his fellow campers. We would like him to remember that Clarisse’s head does not belong in the barbecue pit.
Greek Speak	C	Percy is making progress with Ancient Greek. Unfortunately, on his final exam he translated “The great Achilles took the field.” as “My grandfather’s hamburger is nasty.” Keep trying.
Chariot Racing	A	In Percy’s last race, he not only won but left most of the other chariots in flames. Well done!
Foot Racing	C-	Needs improvement. Percy is still slower than the nymphs, and this is while they are in tree form.
Archery	C-	Needs improvement. On the bright side, Percy is firing fewer stray arrows. He has not shot any of his fellow campers in weeks.
Javelin Throwing	B	Percy has been practicing! His last throw almost hit the target. True, he knocked a bronze bull’s head off, but that is easily fixed.
Rock Climbing	A	Percy excels at rock climbing. Perhaps it’s because he does not enjoy falling in the lava below.

Signed: _Percy Jackson________________

In the Books

Main article: The Lightning Thief

Perseus "Percy" Jackson is introduced as a troubled 12-year-old boy who has been kicked out every single school he has attended. His most recent is Yancy Academy where his usual trouble seems to be worse than usual. He has few friends at the school one of which being the satyr-in-hiding Grover Underwood.
During a field trip to a museum Percy annoyed by a bully in a fit of rage summons water in a nearby fountain to pull the bully in. Fleeing the seen he arrives in the museum to meet Mrs. Dodds his math teacher. Suddenly she attacks him and transforms into a Fury, he manages to evade for a miraculously long time until the arrival of Mr. Brunner who throws a pen at Percy who instinctively transforms it into the bronze sword Anaklusmos or Riptide. Percy manages to destroy the Fury and Mr. Brunner walks inside the museum picks up his pen and walks away as though nothing happened.
As Percy questions him Mr. Brunner says he saw nothing in particular and is happy Percy found his pen. Percy runs out of the museum into Grover and says if he saw what happened, Grover as well acts cogitated. Percy arrives back at the school and hears Grover and Mr. Brunner talking about him. Deeply hurt that his favorite teacher and best friend are talking behind his back he goes home on his own, knowing though it would lead to another suspension. Arriving home to his horrible step dad, Gabe, and friends playing poker Percy rushes upstairs.
But not before being taunted and made fun of by his step dad as usual. His mother arrives soon after word and tells him that they can go to his favorite beach for the whole weekend. Percy happy that finally something good has happened packs his things leaving but not before being jeered further by his step dad. Arriving at the beach Percy is shocked to see Grover coming to him and his mom telling them to leave. Percy is confused but his mother takes both in the car and begins driving at daring speeds.
It begins to rain and Percy hears a loud growl. Percy's mom arrives at hill and makes both come out of the car. Percy then sees the thing chasing them is a Minotaur who charges them. The three of them manage to dodge it but Grover is too slow and the Minotaur charges him Percy again in a surge of power manages to defeat the Minotaur but not before a bolt of lighting takes both the nearly dead Minotaur and his mom to the Underworld. Grover takes Percy to Camp Half-Blood and he is introduced to the other campers, who Percy learns are all demigods.
Percy also meets a future friend Annabeth,leader of the Athena cabin. Percy himself is one but no knows who his divine parent is . He learns that Mr. Brunner is actually a centaur and is the camps director. He also learns that the warden of the camp is the god Dionysus. After a long interval he is introduced to Luke the leader of the Hermes cabin. Later in a capture-the-flag game Percy single-handedly defeats Clarisse,leader of the Ares and three others when he learns that he is the son of Poseidon. Soon after learning that Zeus's lighting bolt has been stolen, Percy embarks on the quest of his life with Anaklusmos Grover and Annabeth.

The Sea of Monsters

Main article: The Sea of Monsters

Thalia's tree, that serves as the magical border of Camp Half-Blood formed to prevent a daughter of Zeus from dying, has been poisoned mysteriously by unknown forces. After Chiron is dismissed from camp, blamed for poisoning the tree, Tantalus, who came from the Fields of Punishment and can not have food or water, has taken the job. The only thing to get rid of the poison is to the Golden Fleece, which is located on Polyphemus's Island, in the Sea of Monsters (the Bermuda Triangle).
Clarisse, the daughter of Ares and longtime enemy of Percy, is given the quest to go into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece, which has healing powers for plants, animals, and humans. Percy and Annabeth decide to go also, not just for the Golden Fleece, but for their friend Grover who is trapped in Polyphemus's cave somewhere in the Sea of Monsters. Percy and Annabeth go along with Tyson, a young Cyclops (Poseidon's son, thus Percy's half-brother) whom Percy befriended at school that year, joins them on their journey, after saving Camp Half-Blood from two fire-breathing bulls. Polyphemus believes that Grover is a female cyclops and not a satyr.
As they enter the Sea of Monsters, they have to get past Scylla and Charybdis. Instead of at least trying to sail in between, Clarisse automatically goes for Charybidis and Tyson almost dies in Clarisse's ship. After that, Percy and Annabeth journey to many dangerous islands, and Annabeth tells Percy many things about how Thalia died and she also mentioned his prophecy. Fighting their way through many other obstacles, like the Sirens and Circe's island, they join up with Clarisse, Grover, and later Tyson, and leave with the Golden Fleece.
When they get back to the mortal world, they send off Clarisse on an airplane to camp alone, and Percy, Annabeth and Tyson get kidnapped by Luke. He almost kills Percy in a duel, but Percy reveals Chiron was innocent, and Chiron comes to rescue them with his strangely dressed relatives. When they get back to camp the Fleece is put on the tree. The Fleece not only revives Thalia's tree, but it makes Thalia come back to life too. It's Thalia who appears as she looked in Percy's dreams. He remembers the dream and realizes that it is her. It turns out that this was actually Kronos's plan, done so that he would have another chance to manipulate the prophecy which governs the future of Olympus and the Olympians.

The Titan's Curse

Main article: The Titan's Curse

The demigods, Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia rushed to the rescue to find that Grover has made an important discovery: he has found two powerful half-blood siblings whose parentage is unknown: Bianca di Angelo and Nico di Angelo. A fierce battle awaits... and a surprise from a group of Hunters with Artemis, the goddess of the moon and the hunt. But that's not all that awaits them. The Titan lord Cronus has devised his most treacherous plot yet, and the young heroes have just fallen prey.
They're not the only ones in danger. An ancient monster has arisen -- one rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus, and Artemis, the only one who might know how to track it, is missing. Now Percy and his friends, along with the Hunters of Artemis, have only a week to find the kidnapped goddess, find Annabeth who supposedly got kidnapped by the evil Dr.Thorn, and solve the mystery of the monster Artemis was hunting. Along the way Grover makes a very important discovery about Pan. Along the way, Percy meets a mortal girl named Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who can see straight though the Mist. She helps him escape from dead warriors. While warning them about the junk yard of the gods, Aphrodite tells Percy there is a romantic future waiting for him with Annabeth .
Once at the other side of the country, they go to the Mountain of Despair to fight Atlas and Luke. Thalia was fighting Luke, and everyone else was fighting Atlas. Artemis was struggling against her bond, the weight of the sky. Percy took the sky from her and held it while Artemis and Zoë lured him back to where the sky was being held. While this was happening, Thalia was fighting Luke, and Luke was winning. Finally, Artemis threw Atlas over to Percy. He knocked Percy from under the sky and Atlas had to hold his burden once more. Thalia and Luke were still fighting but finally Thalia shoved him off the edge with her shield, Aegis, but Zoë had gotten hurt badly. She got poisoned from her old friend, Ladon, and her father, Atlas, made the final strike that killed her. Artemis put her out of her pain and she turned into dust. The dust flew into the stars, creating a new shape in the sky in the shape of a hunter. On Mount Olympus, Thalia becomes one of Artemis' hunters. On the way back to camp, Percy was trying to figure out how to tell Nico her sister died because of some crazed robot in the junkyard of the gods. Once at camp Percy told Nico the horrible truth and he went sprinting into the woods. Annabeth, Percy and Grover looked for Nico for over 2 hours, but no luck. Percy held the figurine of the god Bianca got for him at the junk yard. Suddenly, he realizes who Nico's dad was, Hades, Lord of the Dead. Many weeks later, Grover was drinking a lot of coffee, trying to get a connection with Pan, like he did in New Mexico. He came running towards Percy to tell him Pan spoke in his mind. Pan only said three words, "I await you."

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Main article: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson thinks that freshmen orientation won't be fun, and that itself proves to be when he is accompanied by a mortal friend, Rachel Elizabeth Dare. Rachel tells Percy to get out of the room when she spots the demon cheerleaders that Percy had encountered when he went in through the side of the building to ignore Rachel. As Percy leaves, he ends up having to fight the demons and runs into Annabeth Chase, a friend from camp along the way. She takes him to Camp Half-Blood, a camp just for demigods like them. Percy finds his half-brother Cyclops Tyson waiting for him in his cabin.
Quintus, the new swordsmen teacher, is accompanied by Mrs. O'Leary, a hellhound that develops a soft spot for Percy. But during a game that Quintus made up, Annabeth and Percy go through the rocks of Zeus's Fists and are stuck in a dark room. Though it was only a few minutes, when they came back up it was almost an hour since they went in. Annabeth is offered the quest she has been waiting for since age 7. She must enter the Labyrinth, find Daedalus and get Ariadne's String before their arch enemy Luke Castellan, son of Hermes, does.
Luke has been planning on burning down Camp Half-Blood, and using the Labyrinth to get there guided by Ariadne's String. Annabeth gets her prophecy from the Oracle: You shall delve in the darkness of the endless maze, the dead, the traitor, and the lost one raise, you shall rise or fall by the ghost king's hand, the child of Athena's final stand, destroyed with a hero's final breath, and lose a love to worse than death. Annabeth takes Percy, Grover, and Tyson along with her. Together, they enter the maze. They are accompanied by Hera, who tells that Percy knows the way.
When they take a wrong turn throughout the maze they run into Nico, son of Hades. Nico is accompanied by King Minos, who tries to convince Nico to try to kill them and that they are not his friends. Once they get out, Percy and the others run into a monster-run quiz show. Once they get out, Hephaestus has them go to one of his forges. Percy gets lost in the inner depths of Mt. St. Helens while battling fierce water demons. Before parting with Annabeth, they find themselves kissing and hoping for good luck.
Percy blasts out of Mt. St. Helens while escaping and ends up falling into Ogygia, a tiny island mortals don't know about. There, he meets Calypso, a young girl whom Percy thinks is much more pretty than Aphrodite herself. Percy must leave the island and the love-blinded Calypso behind. When he finds Annabeth again, Percy realizes that he does know the way. Once they are accompanied by Rachel again, they run into a wide arena, where Percy must battle demigod Ethan Nakumura. Sparing Ethan, Percy challenges his giant half-brother, Antaeus, that is accompanying Luke. Percy kills him by having him off of the ground, for the earth helps him heal.
When he finds Annabeth and Rachel again, Rachel leads them straight to Quintis, who whom tells them that he is Daedalus. He explains that Luke got there first. He also says that Rachel is better and more accurate than the string.Then monsters attack the workshop dragging Nico Di Angelo in chains.Percy, Rachel, Annabeth and Nico escape and leaves Daedalus to fight the remaining monsters.They find another entrance and enters the maze once again. Once they navigate through the maze, Percy hears the Titan Lord speak To to him. Taking Annabeth's invisibility cap, he goes into the room and opens the coffin.
There, not fully put together is Luke. As much as Percy hated him, Percy did not draw out Riptide. He finds the demigod whom he spared earlier in the maze, Ethan. Ethan joins the Titan's side and Luke/Kronos comes to life. Percy barely escapes thanks to Nico Di Angelo. While they were going through the Labyrinth, they meet up with Tyson and Grover. Together, they all found the wild god Pan, who tells them he is fading. As his spirit fades, it goes into the mouths of each of them, and it seemed like Grover got a little bit more than the rest. They lead Rachel to New York, who gets a ride from a taxi driver, who leads them straight to camp.
Once they get to camp, leaving Rachel behind because she is mortal, they get ready for the Titan army. Battling side by side are Annabeth and Percy. Percy, remembering what Annabeth had did earlier in the maze, gets to her side and they both fight a fierce monster of the Titan's army. Grover, in panic makes a scream so loud that it scares the Titan army back into the Labyrinth. Grover's Dryad girlfriend, Juniper, insists that it was Pan's wild scream that had scared the Titan army the first time. As Percy gets up, Quintus comes and tells them that he is Daedalus, and that the Labyrinth is tied to his life.
The child of Athena (Deadalus/Quintus) dies, and so does the Labyrinth. Percy, Annabeth, and the other uninjured campers take the wounded to the Big House. Percy decides to leave camp and go celebrate his birthday with his mom. Two surprising visitors stop by while Percy, his mom, and Paul Blofis (Percy's mom's boyfriend) are celebrating. First, Percy's father Poseidon comes and tells him that he fears Luke/Kronos is only temporarily kept back. Finally departing with Poseidon, Percy decides to go to his room to plant the garden he had earlier promised Calypso. As he does, Nico di Angelo stops by and tells him that he needs to tell Percy things about how they might be able to stop the Titan army. Percy then invites him for cake.

Powers/Abilities

Percy has ADHD, which actually is his battle senses that make half-bloods more aware in battles.
Percy is dyslexic, since his brain is hard-wired for Ancient Greek.
Percy has control over water (and bubbles in water), and he is able to manipulate it to his will.
Percy is given more energy and strength and is healed when out at sea or in water.
Percy is able to breathe underwater.
Percy can manipulate ships with his mind in order to make them sail.
Percy can sense the change of saltwater to freshwater.
While at sea, Percy has perfect bearings.
Percy can communicate with equestrian animals (horses, zebras, etc.), as his father created them out of sea foam.
Percy can communicate telepathically with sea animals.
Percy can sense where objects are underwater, as well as the ocean's warm and cold currents.
Since Tyson is his half-brother, he can communicate with him underwater.
Percy has a psychic connection with Grover called an empathic link.
Percy is a good swordsman, even though he has never beaten Luke in a fight.
Percy can withstand great pressures underwater.
When Percy is underwater, he stays dry, unless he doesn't want to be dry.When Percy touches objects underwater, they become dry.
The water cushions Percy if he falls from a high altitude.
Percy takes a long time to burn, including against lava.
Percy can make water appear from nothing, though it takes much energy to do so.
Percy also appears to possess more power than any living half-blood (excluding Thalia and Nico di Angelo); when he was attacked by the telekhines in Hephaestus' forge he was in such danger that his powers acted on instinct and unleashed a tsunami burst that was powerful enough to kill the telekhines, destroy the forge, and stir/awake the imprisoned Typhon.
Percy has aquakinetic powers; he is able to move water from a river or even the ocean with his mind.
It has been hinted that he can summon earthquakes.
Percy knows his naultical postion out at sea.

Fatal Flaw
It is said by Athena that Percy's fatal flaw is personal loyalty. He will sacrifice anything to save his friends and loved ones.
Many times in the series Kronos or Luke uses Percy's fatal flaw to manipulate him.

Relationships
Calypso After Percy is stranded on Ogygia Island, he is healed by the girl named Calypso. She is stranded on the island after supporting her father, Atlas, in the Titan War. She gives him the offer of immortality, and to live on her island forever. But he turns her down, even though it could save him the trouble of the prophecy. (The prophecy states the next child of the Big Three to turn sixteen decides the fate of Olympus.)
Rachel Even though Percy is not known to like Rachel in this way, it is known that she likes him. In the preview of The Last Olympian, Rachel kisses him, although he didn't have any say in it.
Annabeth (Otherwise known as 'Annie Bell' by Mr. D) Perhaps the most popular, is his relationship with Annabeth. Aphrodite has even told him they will have a 'tragic love life'. Even as the tragic is not seen yet, Annabeth does kiss him twice. Once, after winning the chariot race in The Sea of Monsters, and the second as she leaves him to fight the telekhines at Mt. Helens in The Battle of the Labyrinth. Although, Annabeth also has a crush on Luke Castellean. And Annabeth is known to be jealous of Rachel, the mortal girl who steals her 'Seaweed Brain' while she's in San Francisco.

Relationship with Olympians

Poseidon: Percy is on good terms with Poseidon mainly because he is the sea god's son. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Poseidon says that Percy is his favorite son.
Zeus: Zeus currently has mixed feelings about Percy because he is upset about his birth as a demigod child of the big three but Percy saved his lightning bolt which was a tall order. Zeus voted to let Percy live at the Winter Solstice in the Titan's curse though this may have been because his daughter's fate was involved as well(Since Thalia had become a hunter so it's possible that it wouldn't have mattered).
Hades: Hades had mixed feelings about Percy; Percy accused him of stealing Zeus' master bolt when it was, in fact, Ares that stole the master bolt, but he also returned Hades' Helm of Darkness, which turn him into darkness, and cleared his name.
Ares: Percy is on Ares' bad side because of insults and injuries, among other things. It is extremely dangerous that they are not on the best of terms because Ares, being the God of War, thinks highly of revenge, and is usually violent.
Athena: Athena has mixed feelings about Percy. She disapproves of his friendship with Annabeth since she and Poseidon are something of rivals, but he hasn't done anything against her directly. In The Titan's Curse, she may have helped guide him at the Hoover Dam. However, she also voted to destroy him.
Hera: Percy got on Hera's bad side near the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth since he (and Annabeth) both disagree on her view of families having to be perfect, siding with Hephaestus on the matter instead, though she helped them out numerous times during the book. He also insults her by mentioning Thalia, one of Zeus' children not born by her.
Hephaestus: Hephaestus is grateful to Percy for having discovered who was using his forge under Mt. St. Helens, even though he caused an eruption that destroyed the forge and awakened Typhon (who had been imprisoned under the volcano), but also dispersed and/or killed the users. Historically, Hephaestus and Poseidon have close ties in the terms of the Cyclopes, who work for both of them.
Dionysus: (aka "Mr. D") Percy is primarily on Mr. D's bad side, even from the very second they met. Dionysus constantly antagonizes Percy (and all other demigods, for that matter) by never calling them by their real names (preferring to call him "Peter Johnson" or "Perry Johansson"), but he saved Percy's life in The Titan's Curse. One of the other reasons he may dislike half-bloods is because of the way they treat mortals; he mentioned Theseus and Ariadne, Jason and Medea, and alluded to Hercules and Zoё Nightshade in The Titan's Curse, mentioning how the former in all three cases used and later abandoned the latter. Percy doesn't much like Dionysus, either, because of the way he treats the campers. However, at the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth, they had something like a (temporary) truce, when after one of Dionysus' sons died in the final battle, he voted that he believed Grover's news that Pan was dead, disbanded the council when they were at a tie, and cured Chris (a previously traitor half-blood and Clarisse's friend if not her crush) of the madness he got in the Labyrinth. And most shockingly called Percy by his real name. Although he denied it. Percy's relationship with Dionysus appears to be improving.
Artemis: Percy is on Artemis' good side since he helped find and save her in The Titan's Curse. She even declared him a hero in the halls of Olympus itself and started calling him a man rather than a boy after he helped her defeat Atlas.
Hermes: Percy is on good terms with Hermes, who convinced him to go on a quest in The Sea of Monsters and gave him magic items to assist him in his journey. He also explained the relationship between gods and heroes to him. He is in fact on very good terms with Hermes.
Aphrodite: Aphrodite was intrigued by Percy's desire to save Annabeth. She expressed an interest in their relationship, meaning that she plans to meddle with it in some way. She also said she would make Percy's love life hard, just because she likes him.
Apollo: Apollo treats Percy like a younger cousin (which he is). The sun god helped Percy twice in The Titan's Curse so that they could save Artemis, his sister. Being the god of prophecy, he also told Percy how important dreams could be.

Demeter: Demeter and Percy haven't interacted in the series, although she did vote to keep him during the winter solistice.

Greek Monsters/Creatures

tyuoreb — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:24:41 CDT

Hydra	Cerberus
Cyclops	Hippocampi
Minataur Pegasus	Centaur
The Stymphalian Birds	Nemean Lion
Chimaera	Hellhound
Dragon	Kraken
Satyr	Medusa
Charybdis	Scylla
Griffin	Manticore
Typhon	Echinda
Hundred Handed One	Dryad
Titans Atlas Titan	Oceanus Titan

Greek Heroes/Demigods

tyuoreb — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:23:15 CDT

Hercules(12 labors)
Odysseus(Polythemis)
Theseus
Perseus
Alanta
Jason

Hades

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:46:58 CDT

Hades is the brother of Zeus. After the overthrow of their Father Cronus he drew lots with Zeus and Poseidon, another brother, to share the power of the world. He had the worst draw and was made lord of the underworld, ruling over the dead. He is a greedy god who is greatly concerned with increasing his subjects. He is exceedingly disinclined to allow any of his subjects leave. He is also the god of wealth, due to the precious metals that mined from the earth. He has a helmet that makes him invisible and he rarely leaves the underworld. He is unpitying and terrible, but not capricious. His wife is Persephone whom Hades abducted. He is the King of the dead but, death itself is another god, Thanatos.

Map of the Underworld: By Grover Underwood

Camp Half-Blood

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:13:31 CDT

Welcome to Camp Half-Blood
Mr. D., Camp Director
Chiron, Activities Director
Mr. Riordan, Senior Scribe
Half-Blood Hill, Farm Road 3.141
Long Island, New York 11954
“Keeping Young Heroes Safe from Harm (Mostly) For Over Three Millennia”
Welcome to Camp Half-Blood, a state-of-the-art training facility for young demigods. Due to security considerations, we are obliged to tell you that this entire site is fictional. There are no real monsters nor Greek gods.
However, should you need our services, do not waste a minute! Contact your school satyr or send word via Hermes Express. Please include two golden drachma for return postage.Map of Camp Half-Blood

Map of Camp Half-Blood

Daily Schedule of Camp Half-Blood

Sample Activity Schedule The activities at Camp Half Blood are numerous and change daily. Below is only a sample of what a typical day might look like.
8:00	Breakfast & Cabin Inspection
9:00-10:00	Sword & Shield w/Clarisse – Cabin Challenge, full combat armor required.
10:00-11:00	Archery w/Chiron – target practice: proper use of flaming arrows.
11:00-1:00	Winged Horseback Riding w/Demeter Cabin – first hour trail, picnic lunch, second hour aerial combat
1:00-2:00	Monster Assault Techniques w/Hermes Cabin – Ethiopian Dracones: Their Teeth, Claws, and Feeding Habits
2:00-4:00	FREE CHOICE
	Arts & Crafts w/Hephaestus Cabin – Make your own Bronze Weapon
or	Canoe Races w/Naiads – 1st Place Prize: 20 drachma credit at the Camp Store
or	Climbing Wall w/satyrs – “The Clashing Rocks”
4:00-5:00	Swim & Beach Time w/the Nereids — bring sunscreen, discus, javelin, etc.
5:00-6:00	Free Time, Volleyball, Cabin Clean-up
6:00	Dinner & Announcements
7:00-9:00	Capture the Flag – combat gear required, all magical items allowed.
9:00-10:00	Sing-a-long and bonfire w/Apollo Cabin
10:00	Prepare for bed – Lights out by 11:00

The Cabins

Luke

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Characters

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:08:11 CDT

Percy Jackson
Annabeth Chase
Grover Underwood
Tyson
Thalia
Nico di Angelo
Chiron
Rachel Elizabeth Dare
Luke
Bianca di Angelo
Clarrise
Mr. D

Rachel Elizabeth Dare

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:07:22 CDT

Character's background
Rachel originally appeared at Hoover Dam in The Titans Curse. Percy was being chased by Skeletons when she sneezed, Percy whirled around his sword, Riptide, going right through her body. Then he realizes she knew it was a sword, and she can see through the mist. She saves Percy Jackson from a squad of skeletons who are about to attack him by sending him into a restroom behind her and sending the skeletons to the generators.
In The Battle of the Labyrinth we get to learn more of her background. She unexpectedly shows up at Percy's new school, Goode High School. She is able to see that two cheerleaders are really "empousai" (empuses) and is able to help Percy escape from Kelli (one of the empousai). Later, Percy asks her for help in navigating Daedalus's Labyrinth in order to locate Daedalus. She sets off with Percy and Annabeth through the maze. The demi-gods are worried someone will miss her, but she explains that no one would care if she were gone and leaves it at that. After finding that Daedalus has struck a bargain with Kronos, she escapes with Percy and Annabeth. Eventually the trio finds Kronos's headquarters. Kronos has, however, inhabited Luke and attempts to chase Percy down. Rachel appears with Annabeth and Nico and throws her hairbrush at Luke's face, which momentarily confuses Kronos. She also mysteriously manages to convince a limousine driver to ditch his client and take her and the others around to look for an entrance into the Labyrinth. She also assists in finding the lost god Pan and is present for his death. Later she parts ways with Percy, Annabeth, Nico, Grover, and Tyson, but not before revealing that her father is a wealthy businessman who buys up land and turns it into malls. Pan's death affects her, mainly because of her father's job. She expresses interest in hanging out with Percy again, much to Annabeth's dismay. Percy promises to call her and mentions that he has memorized her number, much to Rachel's delight. Later, during his birthday party, Percy laments not thinking of inviting her over, but was too afraid to try.
Rachel grows more and more fond of Percy as a good friend throughout The Battle of the Labyrinth, just as Annabeth grows very jealous of her. Rachel sees that Percy and Annabeth seem to have a lot more feelings for each other then they will admit. She can also see that Annabeth is jealous of her hanging out with Percy and tries to give him the hint that Annabeth likes him, too, but Percy doesn't seem to get it. It is, however, made clear that Percy does have some feelings towards Annabeth.
Between the fourth and fifth book Percy and Rachel become better friends. The fifth book opens with Percy driving her, when she invites him to stay with her and her parents on a cruise, to which he denies. She also asks Percy to kiss her, when they are interrupted by a Pegasus landing on the car. Percy goes to war, and Rachel kisses him before he leaves.

Powers/Abilities

Has the ability to see through the Mist
Can use the influence and wealth of her father to arrange services
She can always tell how someone is feeling.

Chiron

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:54:58 CDT

In the series Chiron plays the part of the mentor and activities director to the main protagonist Percy Jackson and the other demigods residing at Camp Half-Blood. Chiron seems to prefer teaching the heroes over partying with his wild relatives. He is also the son of Kronos.

Power/Abilities

Deep knowledge of the Olympians & the real world.
Wide range of combat abilities (which he teaches to the campers).
Able to manipulate Mist

Weapons/Magical Items

A wheelchair that hides the hairy half of his body so that he can disguise himself in the mortal presence. Also it can be used as his mode of transportation when he can't use his legs.
A bow and arrows.

Nico di Angelo

percyjacksonfan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:46:52 CDT

The Character
Nico di Angelo is the son of Hades and brother to Bianca. His sister died in The Titan's Curse from a defective Talos. He can tell if someone he loves is in the Underworld and if they are being judged. He also know when a mortal or half-blood is dead, from a buzzing in his ears. He can also call spirits from the dead and/or communicate with them. He was angry with Percy Jackson for letting his sister die and tries to get back at him, but at the end of The Battle of the Labyrinth he seems to come up with his own mutual agreement. Nico has discovered a way to defeat the titans, but the book ends before this is told. In The Titan's Curse, it is said that Nico and Bianca are more than 70 years old due to the Lotus
Casino, which means Hades was the only god among the Big Three that kept his promise not to have children after World War II.

Appearance

He is said to have shaggy and messy black hair,olive like skin, dark eyes, and wears all black, and by the end of the battle of the Labyrinth, a skull ring. He is also mentioned on several occasions wearing an aviator's jacket. Towards the end of the fourth book he becomes more sullen than he used to be.

Personality

In The Titan's Curse, Nico was a happy demigod who loved playing with his MythoMagic Cards. However since his sister, Bianca, died, he has had a hateful resentment toward Percy. He now thinks MythoMagic is a stupid game, and burns his cards in a fire. He becomes more sullen, and solitary, saying that "only the dead respect him... and only out of fear". He believes that he will never be accepted with the living, but forgives Percy after Bianca tells him that it wasn't Percy's fault that she died and seems to resume interest in MythoMagic. He also accepts the small figurine of Hades Bianca wanted him to have before she died in The Titan's Curse.

In the books

The Titan's Curse

Nico first appears with his sister, in a military school called Westover Hall. They are sought out by Grover Underwood, the satyr, who believes them to be two very powerful unknown half-bloods. Nico is about ten, and seems to be very interested in MythoMagic, a game about Greek mythology. But when Bianca accepts Artemis's proposal to become a Hunter, Nico gets angry at her for abandoning him. Percy finds Nico eavesdropping on Bianca and Zöe, and Nico successfully convinces Percy to promise to keep his sister safe. He doesn't appear again until the end of the book, where Percy explains to him that Bianca died to save the others on the quest. He immediately turns on Percy, telling him he hates him, and reminding him of the oath he took to keep his Bianca safe. Nico is last seen running into the woods at night, after screaming at Percy. He also created a large crack in the ground to swallow up the skeletons that were chasing Percy.

Battle of The Labyrinth

When Percy is sent a collect Iris Message, (sent by Bianca) he sees Nico talking with an unknown ghost (King Minos) who is trying to tell Nico how to resurrect his sister's dead body. It is revealed in this book that Nico can summon the dead. Nico is then seen when Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson visit Triple G Ranch, where Percy then saves Nico from being sent to the Titans. Nico, still angry at Percy, finally learns from his sister that it was not Percy that killed her, and he shouldn't be mad at him. The others leave Nico at the Ranch, where he supposedly meets King Minos (in ghost form) again, who convinces him to go back into the Labyrinth. Then, he is seen being dragged into Daedalus's workshop by one empousa and two Laistrygonians, in chains, after being tricked by King Minos. He escapes with Percy, Annabeth, and Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who have to go back into the Labyrinth to find Grover and Tyson. Along the way, they see Kronos (in the form of Luke), and Nico, in a desperate attempt to save everyone, shows his true powers, and makes it known to Kronos that he is a son of Hades. They meet Pan, who gives everyone except for Nico a cryptic future reading and then vanishes. After they get out of the Labyrinth, a full-fledged battle erupts between the Titans and Camp Half-Blood, in which Nico summons a dozen undead soldiers to fight the dracanae. He is then revived with nectar, and he states that summoning that many required a lot of energy. After the campfire, he is seen talking with the ghost form of Bianca di Angelo, his sister. He then tells Percy, who came out to see what was going on, that he did not belong at camp, and would train in the Underworld, where he belonged.He also goes to search on who his mother is, who paid for him and Bianca to stay at the school in the beginning of the Titan's Curse. He is last seen, on Percy's apartment fire escape, giving Percy news on Daedalus, and a way to beat Luke for good. But before mentioning it, Nico gets sidetracked by the blue birthday cake (assuming he's most likely never had a birthday party in his life), and Percy invites him in to talk. Nico is 11 years old in this book.

Fatal Flaw

Nico di Angelo's fatal flaw is holding grudges, as Bianca tells him - which, in his case, can lead to not wanting help or asking to be saved in deadly situations because he doesn't like someone. Examples are his not wanting to be helped by Percy, even when Geryon was going to sell him to the Titans and not wanting to go back in the Labyrinth with them. Bianca shares this with him, as she also had the same fatal flaw in life, although this didn't lead to her death. Bianca also says that holding grudges is the demigods of Hades' fatal flaw.

Weapon

A Stygian iron sword that channels his powers to control and summon the dead.

Powers/Abilities

Nico has dominion over the dead, allowing him the title the ghost king.
Nico can summon and communicate with the dead
Nico can kill undead skeletons
He can sense when a mortal or half-blood has died through the buzzing in his ear
Nico can create flaming fissures of hellfire that then closes, swallowing up living or dead creatures and immediately trapping them in the Underworld
Nico has been trained in the Underworld
Nico can call forth Stygian iron from the Underworld
He can manipulate rocks, making them deadly

Thalia

percyjacksonfan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:26:52 CDT

Character's background

Thalia is the daughter of Zeus. She is a child of one of the Big Three. Grover was meant to watch over her when she ran away from home at twelve years old. On her journey, she met Luke and Annabeth. They also had a brief encounters with the Hunters of Artemis and she was enticed to join by Zoë Nightshade. When she was twelve, they were all soon attacked by a heard of monsters and caught by a Cyclops in New York. She was captured, but thanks to Annabeth, was freed. They escaped, but found that the monsters they had briefly escaped caught up to them. As they reached Half-Blood Hill, Thalia sent Luke, Grover, and Annabeth over the boundary line while she faced the monsters. She sacrificed her life for her friends, but her father, Zeus, took pity on her and turned her into a pine tree to preserve her, keeping the rest of the camp safe. At the end of The Sea of Monsters she was brought back to life by the Golden Fleece. Zeus has given her a spear which shoots electricity and turns into a small canister that fits in her pocket, and Athena gave her a bracelet that turns into Aegis, a shield with the Medusa's head carved into it.

Personality

Thalia is a very skilled fighter and as she stated in The Titans Curse, she could always beat Luke in combat, something Percy has never quite done. It is also mentioned throughout the series that she has a punk/skater sort of style. She is always listening to rock bands and is into the punk style. Annabeth compares her to Percy, telling him, "You guys are so alike it's scary. Either you would have been best friends, or you would have strangled each other."

Powers and Abilities

Thalia can send powerful amounts of static shock throughout another's body on contact.
Thalia can 'manipulate the Mist' which means she can make things as she wants them to appear to the eyes of a mortal (taught to her by Chiron).
Things that belong to her father, Zeus, domain can do as she asks, such as statues of the angels in The Titans Curse, which were gifts to her father. They, on her request, flew her and her friends to San Francisco when she asked them to.
Thalia has ADHD like other half-bloods, which allows her heightened awareness in combat.
Thalia has a strong leadership quality which is probably a result of being the daughter of Zeus.
It is assumed that Thalia can also manipulate electricity and lightning due to Zeus, the god of lightning, being her father.
Thalia has some control over air and the sky, being daughter of Zeus, Lord of the Sky. Since she has acrophobia, she has yet to test them.
Thalia has always beat Luke in battle.
Thalia became one of Artemis's hunters in the end of The Titan's Curse, and as a result is immortal.

Weapons

A decoy copy of Aegis that expands from a metal bracelet that she wears on her wrist, which many of the campers cower in front of.

In the books

The Lightning Thief

It was mentioned that Thalia was turned into a pine tree when she risked her life saving her friends atop of Half-Blood Hill, which guarded the boundary line for Camp Half-Blood. In this book it says that Thalia has Green eyes, but in The Sea Of Monsters it says she has blue eyes.

The Sea of Monsters

Thalia appeared in Percy's dreams and she comes back to life to conclude the second book after Clarisse places the golden fleece on her tree, which is good and bad because it means that Thalia can also be the one of the prophecy and Kronos would take advantage of that.

The Titan's Curse

Thalia and Percy have some occasional fights at camp because their similar personalities tend to clash, and Thalia was sometimes called "Pinecone Face" by Percy, and in contrast she called him "Seaweed Brain" which Percy does not like because it is only okay when Annabeth calls him that. Thalia goes on the quest to find Artemis and rescue Annabeth, with Percy, Zoe Nightshade, Bianca di Angelo, and Grover. Together, they face the Titan General Atlas's army and make it to Mount Tamalpais. There, she fights her old friend Luke, and it seems that she has strong feelings for him, and they discover that Kronos used Thalia to return, to twist destiny into her hands, since she would be turning sixteen on the day following the Winter Solstice. She escaped this deadly path and turned to her half-sister, Artemis, who made her into a Hunter, which would stop her from being sixteen, because whoever becomes a Hunter becomes immortal, unless they shall die in battle, or break the oath by falling in love.

Thalia's tree still remains standing on Half-Blood Hill with the Golden Fleece for energy, it is currently being guarded by a baby dragon.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Thalia was absent from Camp Half-Blood this summer due to her adventures with Artemis and the Hunters, but she is mentioned once in the book and returns in the 5th book.

The Last Olympian

Thalia and the Hunters are set to reappear in Book 5 in the series.

Fatal Flaw

It is unknown, but is implied that she has a weak resistance when she is offered power.