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The House of Hades is a fantasy-adventure novel written by American author Rick Riordan, based on Greek and Roman mythology.It was published on October 8, 2013, and is the fourth book in The Heroes of Olympus series, preceded by The Mark of Athena and followed by The Blood of Olympus.
Unlike the book series, Ares doesn't curse Riptide and states that Percy has made an enemy for life. Athena / Minerva – The goddess of wisdom, and the daughter of Zeus and Metis. Athena first appears in The Titan's Curse , where she dislikes Percy and his relationship with her daughter, and votes to execute Percy due to his crucial role in ...
The Troy Game is a quartet by Australian author Sara Douglass consisting of four books: Hades' Daughter, God's Concubine, Darkwitch Rising and Druid's Sword. It centres on a group of characters who are reincarnated at the end of each book and take the form of renowned historical figures from different ages. The entire series is set in London ...
Hades (/ ˈ h eɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Hā́idēs, Attic Greek: [háːi̯dεːs], later [háːdεːs]), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. [2] Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him ...
This is the book that kicks off the whole series: Percy Jackson, a Holden Caulfieldesque boarding school student, gets tangled up in the business of Greek gods when he's accused of stealing Zeus's ...
Cornelia, Brutus' wife, and the central character of the first three books of the series. Corineus, Brutus' captain. Coel, a Llangarlian mystic and warrior; also temporary lover of Cornelia. Loth, a strange, enigmatic Llangarlian man with a distorted antler-shaped head. Aerne, Gormagog of Llangarlia. Mag, Mother Goddess of the Waters of Llangarlia.
Sheila Murnaghan of the University of Pennsylvania wrote:. The new classic status of myth collections, and the impulse to attack them in order to be popular, is well illustrated by the "Myth-O-Mania" books, a series for young readers (the recommended age range is 9-12) by Kate McMullan, published by Hyperion in 2002 and 2003, beginning with the first title, Have a Hot Time, Hades!, going ...
The naiad Minthe, daughter of the infernal river-god Cocytus, became concubine to Hades, the lord of the underworld and god of the dead. [9] [10] In jealousy, his wife Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe, in the words of Strabo's account, "into the garden mint, which some call hedyosmos (lit. 'sweet-smelling')".