The Mark of Athena
Cover of first edition
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| Author | Rick Riordan |
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| Cover artist | John Rocco |
| Country | United States |
| Series | The Heroes of Olympus (bk 3) |
| Genre | Fantasy, Greek and Roman mythology, young-adult novel |
| Publisher | Disney-Hyperion Books |
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Publication date
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October 2, 2012 |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), audiobook, e-book |
| Pages | 586 pp (first ed.) |
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| OCLC | 785897707 |
| LC Class | PZ7.R4829 Mar 2012 |
| Preceded by | The Son of Neptune |
| Followed by | The House of Hades |
The Mark of Athena is the third book of The Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan, released on October 2, 2012. It is the direct sequel of The Son of Neptune. The Mark of Athena follows the stories of the Greek demigods: Annabeth Chase, Leo Valdez, Piper McLean, and Percy Jackson; and the Roman demigods Jason Grace, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang. It is the first novel told from the perspective each of the seven demigods mentioned in the second Great Prophecy.
Rick Riordan had been working on The Mark of Athena since the completion of The Son of Neptune.
During his tour to promote the last of The Kane Chronicles books, titled The Serpent's Shadow, Riordan read part of the first chapter of The Mark of Athena. The cover and full first chapter were also released Disney's The Heroes of Olympus website. On September 27, 2012, Riordan confirmed that there would be a first US printing of 3.5 million copies.
Six months after the events of The Lost Hero, Leo Valdez has constructed a trireme, Argo II, for use in the seven demigods journey to Greece to stop Gaea from awakening. He, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, and Annabeth Chase, accompanied by Coach Hedge, arrive at Camp Jupiter to rendezvous with Percy Jackson and the Roman demigods. At Percy's request, Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque are chosen as representatives of the Romans, alongside Jason, to accompany the Greek demigods. Annabeth, while having a talk with Camp Jupiter's praetor, Reyna, about the quest, reveals that in order to unite the Greek and Roman demigods against Gaea, they have to first retrieve the Athena Parthenos, a giant statue of Athena that was stolen by the Romans in ancient times and hidden somewhere in Rome. The statue can only be retrieved by the demigods of Athena through the help of the Mark of Athena, all of whom had died trying. However, an Eidolon sent by Gaea possesses Leo and forces him to fire a blast on the camp, inciting the paranoid augur, Octavian, to convince the Romans that the Greeks are a threat and have to be destroyed.
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