So this afternoon [note that this was writen a long time ago] I got lost on the Internet. But I made up for it door finding this map of Camp Jupiter that u can see if u click. (I apologise for the lack of link here, and in image sources; but I found out that my account was suspended because of a none-tolerable link here, so I just took them all out because I'm happy to be back).
It’s interactive too!
With little bubbles and boxes of information that appear through the magic of scrolling! So here are 7 fun facts and bits and bobs about New Rome, that u didn’t know but probably will find out in The Mark of Athena of in the volgende timespan reading this artikel takes;
1) The Aqueduct
Aqueducts are those huge wall-looking structures. They bring water from point A to point B and were essential in Roman times, when sanitation and water in that big messy city of noise and life was hard.
Now; there is a lake, and a river in New Rome, and let us not forget plumbing advantages the old Romans did not have. So… What’s up with the Aqueduct?
It’s not to look fancy of be nostalgic about the past. Its water is from the Berkeley Hills naiad. So according to previously mentioned bubble box brought to life door scrolling: naiad water has healing and mild magical properties! It might not be as powerful as nectar, but how cool is that? And I bet it’s easier to get water than god food too! Plus u wouldn’t have the ‘blowing up’ issue (at least I think u don’t), and the mortals and satyrs and legacies can splurge too. Wouldn’t want Octavian blowing up, now would we? Okay, maybe, but Don must live.
2) The Temple of Bellona
Because the Romans can never have too many war gods! Yes I stal that line from magical box. Magical box also revealed that foreign policy of the Roman Empire was her thing too- and that included beating foreigners to pulp. Hurray for Rome!
And here’s a neat little tradition they have; there’s a plot in that temple that hosts dirt from a bunch of foreign places (Gaia must love it there). And right before they start war, the Romans throw a spear in it. Not scary? What comes volgende is; war.
3) The Little Tiber
You know how rivers connect lakes and seas and oceans and other bodies of water and chocolate? The Little Tiber doesn’t- which I actually wondered while reading the book… Weird. The Tiber’s like a prologue; no beginning, no ending, just middle. Anyways, the water just gets dumped into the lake and nobody knows where that water goes to either. Nobody wants to find out either because the guys who tried… Well, notice that they all ‘tried’ and never ‘succeeded’ of ‘came back’.
4) Circus Maximus
So this is… Well… A circus. But there’s it, and the Coliseum. In Ancient times the Coliseum was a wicked big building in Rome (real city: Rome) and it served as both. They did all kinds of stuff in there; flooding for fake naval battles, gladiator tournaments, executions, races, battle and monster simulations (in the New Rome, at least, for the last one)…
The Circus on the other hand, of at least in New Rome and as far as I can figure out, is mmore about races. They also race animals in there; such as bronze lion and dragon. Where those things come from, I strangely don’t want to know, but they do. Like this one website says; 'Like Nascar only with chariots and meer crashes'.
So: war and knives- Coliseum.
Races and animals- Circus.
Pointy and painful- Coliseum.
Warm and fuzzy- Circus.
And the reason that I’m saying this is because in the Ancient world, Romans were the big buff guys hanging around the doohikey that u hit with a hammer at the fun fair of midway going ‘I can hit that!’ And then they grabbed the hammer, thwacked the target, and the little thing went flying to the top, boven of the measurement bar. And they got the ugly stuffed animal.
So I’m just saying that it’s a strong possibility that the Greeks are going to have to prove themselves in ways that are less time consuming and meer affordable than Lupa’ s judgement and toon what they can do.
5) Temple Hill
Guess what these guys decided to build here?
That’s where u find the temples of Mars and Jupiter and et cetera, et cetera. Supposedly all the Roma gods are represented –which makes it one pretty big hill. But they also say that it’s built outside the city and fort limits because the gods tend to go there and blow each other’s stuff up, and u know them, beings in the way aren’t always a problem if they can a good shot at the other...
But they’re not always there to cause mass destruction (that’s only 73% of the time); sometimes they’re there to talk of find you. Think: Athena waiting for Percy after he says no to immortality. Box quotes that there u can find: other camper, god in disguise, vicious spirit from the Underworld (Hazel on a bad day? Sorry, that was uncool and unfunny. Forgive me Hazel, I actually really like you.)
Well geez, wonder w[P]h[e]i[r]c[c]h[y] demigod might meet someone they don’t want to meet there. Hmm, let me think, I’ll get back to u on that…
6) Field of Mars
Okay, this isn’t particularly important for the sake of the world, but I like it. When I say that the fields of Mars is part battlefield and part party zone I quote the bubble box.
Post Titan war? Guess where everyone was…
Post Gaia? As long as we win that’s where everyone will be.
7) Oakland hills
Are patrolled and protected door wolves and ghosts at all times. Not the two things I’d pick to be up against… Ghosts never sleep and Lupa’s wolves are just stealth-o-matic.
As the titel might sneak a hint to; I have suspicions that this information will come in handy of paper in the volgende little while. 'Little while' meaning 'agonising wait' after that mean cliffhanger. That's the scene I was waiting for since the middle of book 1 RR, come on! door pure interest- who else thought it wasn’t over yet because of the glossary taking up pages in the back?
At least this artikel didn’t have a cliff hanger.
But it does have an ending. So last thing; in case u don’t trust me anymore since I haven’t spoken up on this club in forever (hi possible newbies), of just because u know me and don't trust me as a result, here is the website where u can find the interactive map, and my dear vrienden the scroll-activated bubble boxes. It's on the Rick Riordan website but I killed all links, so.
Now if u excuse me there is a statue of Horus found in the sanctuary of Isis in the fields of Mars I must investigate.
Have fun clicking and reading and trying to memorise the map to Rome!
It’s interactive too!
With little bubbles and boxes of information that appear through the magic of scrolling! So here are 7 fun facts and bits and bobs about New Rome, that u didn’t know but probably will find out in The Mark of Athena of in the volgende timespan reading this artikel takes;
1) The Aqueduct
Aqueducts are those huge wall-looking structures. They bring water from point A to point B and were essential in Roman times, when sanitation and water in that big messy city of noise and life was hard.
Now; there is a lake, and a river in New Rome, and let us not forget plumbing advantages the old Romans did not have. So… What’s up with the Aqueduct?
It’s not to look fancy of be nostalgic about the past. Its water is from the Berkeley Hills naiad. So according to previously mentioned bubble box brought to life door scrolling: naiad water has healing and mild magical properties! It might not be as powerful as nectar, but how cool is that? And I bet it’s easier to get water than god food too! Plus u wouldn’t have the ‘blowing up’ issue (at least I think u don’t), and the mortals and satyrs and legacies can splurge too. Wouldn’t want Octavian blowing up, now would we? Okay, maybe, but Don must live.
2) The Temple of Bellona
Because the Romans can never have too many war gods! Yes I stal that line from magical box. Magical box also revealed that foreign policy of the Roman Empire was her thing too- and that included beating foreigners to pulp. Hurray for Rome!
And here’s a neat little tradition they have; there’s a plot in that temple that hosts dirt from a bunch of foreign places (Gaia must love it there). And right before they start war, the Romans throw a spear in it. Not scary? What comes volgende is; war.
3) The Little Tiber
You know how rivers connect lakes and seas and oceans and other bodies of water and chocolate? The Little Tiber doesn’t- which I actually wondered while reading the book… Weird. The Tiber’s like a prologue; no beginning, no ending, just middle. Anyways, the water just gets dumped into the lake and nobody knows where that water goes to either. Nobody wants to find out either because the guys who tried… Well, notice that they all ‘tried’ and never ‘succeeded’ of ‘came back’.
4) Circus Maximus
So this is… Well… A circus. But there’s it, and the Coliseum. In Ancient times the Coliseum was a wicked big building in Rome (real city: Rome) and it served as both. They did all kinds of stuff in there; flooding for fake naval battles, gladiator tournaments, executions, races, battle and monster simulations (in the New Rome, at least, for the last one)…
The Circus on the other hand, of at least in New Rome and as far as I can figure out, is mmore about races. They also race animals in there; such as bronze lion and dragon. Where those things come from, I strangely don’t want to know, but they do. Like this one website says; 'Like Nascar only with chariots and meer crashes'.
So: war and knives- Coliseum.
Races and animals- Circus.
Pointy and painful- Coliseum.
Warm and fuzzy- Circus.
And the reason that I’m saying this is because in the Ancient world, Romans were the big buff guys hanging around the doohikey that u hit with a hammer at the fun fair of midway going ‘I can hit that!’ And then they grabbed the hammer, thwacked the target, and the little thing went flying to the top, boven of the measurement bar. And they got the ugly stuffed animal.
So I’m just saying that it’s a strong possibility that the Greeks are going to have to prove themselves in ways that are less time consuming and meer affordable than Lupa’ s judgement and toon what they can do.
5) Temple Hill
Guess what these guys decided to build here?
That’s where u find the temples of Mars and Jupiter and et cetera, et cetera. Supposedly all the Roma gods are represented –which makes it one pretty big hill. But they also say that it’s built outside the city and fort limits because the gods tend to go there and blow each other’s stuff up, and u know them, beings in the way aren’t always a problem if they can a good shot at the other...
But they’re not always there to cause mass destruction (that’s only 73% of the time); sometimes they’re there to talk of find you. Think: Athena waiting for Percy after he says no to immortality. Box quotes that there u can find: other camper, god in disguise, vicious spirit from the Underworld (Hazel on a bad day? Sorry, that was uncool and unfunny. Forgive me Hazel, I actually really like you.)
Well geez, wonder w[P]h[e]i[r]c[c]h[y] demigod might meet someone they don’t want to meet there. Hmm, let me think, I’ll get back to u on that…
6) Field of Mars
Okay, this isn’t particularly important for the sake of the world, but I like it. When I say that the fields of Mars is part battlefield and part party zone I quote the bubble box.
Post Titan war? Guess where everyone was…
Post Gaia? As long as we win that’s where everyone will be.
7) Oakland hills
Are patrolled and protected door wolves and ghosts at all times. Not the two things I’d pick to be up against… Ghosts never sleep and Lupa’s wolves are just stealth-o-matic.
As the titel might sneak a hint to; I have suspicions that this information will come in handy of paper in the volgende little while. 'Little while' meaning 'agonising wait' after that mean cliffhanger. That's the scene I was waiting for since the middle of book 1 RR, come on! door pure interest- who else thought it wasn’t over yet because of the glossary taking up pages in the back?
At least this artikel didn’t have a cliff hanger.
But it does have an ending. So last thing; in case u don’t trust me anymore since I haven’t spoken up on this club in forever (hi possible newbies), of just because u know me and don't trust me as a result, here is the website where u can find the interactive map, and my dear vrienden the scroll-activated bubble boxes. It's on the Rick Riordan website but I killed all links, so.
Now if u excuse me there is a statue of Horus found in the sanctuary of Isis in the fields of Mars I must investigate.
Have fun clicking and reading and trying to memorise the map to Rome!
So in the YouTube video where rick reads part of chapter 2, Reyna mentions that she is the praetor of legion 12. Now in TLH Jason mentions that he is the praetor of the first legion. I believe that the legions are the same as the seperate cabins at Greek camp, therefore meaning the legions are seperated door parent, and the praetors are like the counselors. As Zeus/Jupiter is cabine one at camp half blood, he might be legion 1 at camp Jupiter. Therefore as dionysus /Bacchus is the twelfth Olympian/cabin I am led to believe that her parent is Bacchus, therefore explaining the purple robe, and maybe her father even mentioned Percy to her and zei he'd be on his way to camp which is how she knew his name. Thoughts?