The Mark of Athena: Setting

To start the book off the characters Annabeth, Leo, Piper, and Jason all arrived at Camp Jupiter. At this camp all the demigods are Roman and Jason and his crew are Greek. Camp Jupiter is base doff of the architectural styling of Rome. There are grand marble buildings and plenty of columns.

After they leave this "New Rome", as they call it, they begin their journey to actual Rome. They travel by this big floating war ship called the Argo II. During one part of the book Annabeth takes Percy Jackson to the ship's stable area. Here is how Percy describes it, "The room smelled of fresh hay and wool blankets. Lining the left wall were three empty horse stalls like the ones they used for pegasi back at camp. The right wall had two empty cages big enough for large zoo animals.

In the center of the floor was a twenty-foot-square see-through panel. Far below, the night landscape whisked by-miles of dark countryside crisscrossed with illuminated highways like the strands of a web" (Riordan 159). I feel like Riordan does an excellent job depicting this area of the boat. You can see the roads down below you and the empty, smelly stable. This helps you to set the mood of this part in the book. Since it is Percy and Annabeth, it is supposed to be romantic and beautiful. You can see them sitting together and watching the night pass under them.