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100-397: The Senior Year Adventures The Trials of Apollo : Standalone novels : Camp Half-Blood Chronicles is a media franchise created by author Rick Riordan , encompassing three five-part novel series, two short-story collections, two myth anthology books, a stand-alone short story, three crossover short stories, an essay collection, multiple guides,eight graphic novels, two films,
200-493: A bed and Meg explains that he has been asleep for a day and a half. There is a funeral for Jason that night, and Lupa shows up to tell Apollo to get divine help to defeat their enemies. Apollo and Frank go to Ella the harpy and Tyson the cyclops , who are recreating the Sibylline Books . They get a prophecy regarding Tarquin 's tomb. They go to the camp senate , where he, Meg, Lavinia, and Hazel are selected to go on
300-589: A collection titled Demigods and Magicians on April 5, 2016. The Son of Sobek is a 2013 crossover novel between the Percy Jackson and the Kane Chronicles series. It features Percy Jackson and Carter Kane fighting a giant crocodile in Long Island . It was originally published in the paperback edition of The Serpent's Shadow and was later published as an e-short. The Staff of Serapis
400-604: A demigod, Percy Jackson, and his quest to stop the rise of the Titan lord Kronos from rising from Tartarus . The books are seen from Percy's witty and sardonic point of view. The series tackles themes like coming of age , love and teenage angst . More than 69 million copies of the books have been sold in more than 35 countries. As of July 19, 2020, the series has been on the New York Times best seller list for children's book series for 538 weeks. The Lightning Thief
500-412: A drawing of Annabeth's open camp trunk and a "Map of Camp Half-Blood" by Steve James, glossy color illustrations of eight characters by Antonio Caparo, and various crossword puzzles and other activities. The narrative setting is between the fourth and fifth novels. The Demigod Diaries is a collection published by Hyperion on August 14, 2012, written by Rick and his son Haley Riordan. It is a companion to
600-568: A dumpster in an alley in New York City , in the form of a mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos , because of the events leading up to the war between the Greeks and the Romans. Here, he meets Meg McCaffrey . Believing that he must only undertake a simple quest to regain his immortality, Apollo and Meg travel to Camp Half-Blood with the help of Percy Jackson , where they learn that most of
700-560: A guest under the protection of King Cocalus. There Daedalus built a temple to Apollo , and hung up his wings as an offering to the god. In an invention of Virgil ( Aeneid VI), Daedalus flies to Cumae and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily. Minos , meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by traveling from city to city asking a riddle. He presented a spiral seashell and asked for a string to be run through it. When he reached Camicus, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve
800-522: A jar containing the voice of the Sibyl of Cumae. With some difficulty, they manage to get the last breath of Harpocrates, along with Sibyl's Jar, which is required to get divine help. On their way back, they are ambushed by a euronymous again, and after they kill him, they are helped by Lavinia and her friends, who escaped from the camp earlier. Reyna and Lavinia issue "Plan L" to defeat the yachts that Apollo saw in his dream. When Apollo and Meg return, they see
900-427: A laptop. Nero video calls the laptop and tells him that he has a plan B: to release Sassanid gas, which is extremely poisonous, and kill everyone in the building, unless Apollo comes to the throne room in fifteen minutes. Apollo tells the troglodytes about the gas trap, and they run to disable it. Meanwhile, Apollo reaches the throne room, where all the adopted children of Nero are present, including Meg. Nero orders
1000-497: A live action tv series, a video game, a musical, and other media. Set in the modern world, it focuses on groups of demigod teenagers, and features many characters from Greek and Roman mythology . The first series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians , follows the adventures of a boy named Percy Jackson at a summer camp for Greek demigods. The second series, The Heroes of Olympus , introduces several more lead characters and
1100-616: A metaphor for genuine understanding of truth , as opposed to belief that coincidentally happens to be true, in a Socratic dialogue with Meno . Socrates argues that while truth, like one of Daedalus's "moving" statues, is inherently valuable, their animacy would mean they are worthless if the owner cannot shackle them in place to stop them from wandering off. Daedalus gave his name, eponymously , to many Greek craftsmen and many Greek contraptions and inventions that represented dextrous skill. A specific sort of early Greek sculptures are named Daedalic sculpture in his honor. In Boeotia there
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#17327719300031200-455: A mission to find out more about Tarquin, the final king of Rome, who has returned. They discover that Tarquin has kept a "soundless god" at Sutro Tower . After they return, they realize that to solve the communication issues and get divine help, they need to destroy the soundless god. A quest is issued for Apollo, Meg, and Reyna to go to Sutro Tower. At the tower, they realize the god is Harpocrates , who has had troubles with Apollo. He also has
1300-577: A nephew named either Talos , Calos, or Perdix . The Athenians rewrote the Cretan -born Daedalus as an Athenian himself, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus who only fled to Crete after killing his nephew. A mythical craftsman named Daedalus is first mentioned in roughly 1400 BC on the Knossian Linear B tablets. He is later mentioned by Homer as the creator of a dancing floor for Ariadne , similar to that which Hephaestus placed on
1400-584: A rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he attempted to murder him by throwing him down from the Acropolis in Athens . Athena saved his nephew and turned him into a partridge . Tried and convicted for this murder attempt, Daedalus left Athens and fled to Crete . Daedalus created the Labyrinth on Crete , in which
1500-463: A second camp for Roman demigods named Camp Jupiter. The third series, The Trials of Apollo , follows the now-mortal god Apollo , with appearances by many characters from the first and second series. The franchise takes place in the same fictional universe as two of Riordan's other series, The Kane Chronicles (which centers on Egyptian mythology ) and Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard (set in
1600-472: A standalone novel, The Chalice of the Gods was released on September 26, 2023. The book covers events that take place between The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo . The novel is written from Percy's point of view , much like in the rest of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series. Wrath of the Triple Goddess is the seventh book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. In
1700-661: A summer camp as a counselor. Apollo visits Piper in Oklahoma, where she has started a new life with her father and her new girlfriend Shel. Apollo also visits Meg, who is living in Palm Springs with Lu, the Imperial children whom she is teaching to garden, and the Meliae who are acting as security guards. Apollo gifts Meg a unicorn and promises her that he will come back. A companion book titled Camp Half-Blood Confidential
1800-534: A voice from Tartarus lately that he suspects is his old friend Iapetus the titan , also known as Bob, who seemed to have died helping Percy and Annabeth escape Tartarus in The House of Hades . With the help of the troglodytes, Nico and Will intend to travel to Tartarus to find the source of the voice and rescue Bob if they can, and Rachel delivers a prophecy about this prospective quest. Apollo visits Camp Jupiter, where Frank and Hazel are praetors. Hazel gets rid of
1900-470: A way to sabotage Nero's Greek fire vats with the help of the troglodytes, a species of good diggers, Rachel suddenly spouts the final couplet of the prophecy, but Python has meddled with it. The cattle, revealed to be the Tauri Silvestres, attack, and the five manage to escape. Nico helps them reach the troglodytes via shadow travel, and Will is revealed to have the power to glow in the dark. At
2000-500: A writing system used to record Mycenaean Greek . The name appears in the form da-da-re-jo-de , possibly referring to a sanctuary. Daedalus's parentage was supplied as a later addition, with various authors attributing different parents to him. His father is claimed to be either Eupalamus , Metion , or Palamaon . Similarly, his mother was either Alcippe , Iphinoe , Phrasmede or Merope , daughter of King Erechtheus . Daedalus had two sons: Icarus and Iapyx , along with
2100-511: Is Cocalus that kills Minos in the bath. Other variants say that Daedalus himself poured the boiling water, or that he had built the pipes that could supply hot water to the bath and this was used to instead pour boiling water on him. At least two locations are associated with the death of Daedalus. One version of the story says he retired to the Cretan colony of Telmessos , ruled by Minos's estranged brother Sarpedon, and while wandering outside
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#17327719300032200-462: Is Daedalus himself who gives Ariadne the clue as to how to escape the labyrinth. Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the Labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single dancing path to the center and out again, and gave it numerous winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end. Ovid , in his Metamorphoses , suggests that Daedalus constructed
2300-588: Is a companion book to the first series, Percy Jackson & the Olympians , and its main contents are four short stories: "Percy Jackson and the Stolen Chariot", "Percy Jackson and the Bronze Dragon", and "Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades", and the first chapter of The Last Olympian (the fifth novel, published a few months later). Additional contents include interviews with some of the campers,
2400-522: Is a continuation of The Son of Sobek , published in 2014. It features Annabeth Chase and Sadie Kane battling the god Serapis in Rockaway Beach in Queens . It was originally published in the paperback edition of The Mark of Athena and was later published as an e-short. The Crown of Ptolemy , published in 2015, features all four characters that were in the first two stories. They need to stop
2500-603: Is credited with inventing carpentry, including tools like the axe, saw, glue, and more. Supposedly, he first invented masts and sails for ships for the navy of King Minos. He is also said to have carved statues so spirited they appeared to be living and moving. Pausanias , in traveling around Greece, attributed to Daedalus numerous archaic wooden cult figures (see xoana ) that impressed him. In fact, so many other statues and artworks are attributed to Daedalus by Pausanias and various other sources that likely many of them were never made by him. Plato cited Daedalus's handiwork as
2600-596: Is forced by Nero to go to her old room in the Imperial Residences inside the Tower of Nero. Apollo, after managing to revive Lu, finds out that a leontocephaline, a creation of the Persian god Mithras , is guarding the fasces. As a guardian of immortality, he requires a sacrifice of it in return for granting access to the fasces. Lu and Apollo escape the prison, and Lu decides to give up her immortality to get
2700-463: Is in Grover's base. Apollo and Grover go to try to find Gleeson Hedge in an army store called Macro's Military Madness. They then find out that Macro, the store owner, is actually Naevius Sutorius Macro , who works for Caligula, and he attacks them with an army of automatons . By activating command sequence Daedalus twenty-three, they defeat Macro with his own robots. They then navigate the maze with
2800-525: Is mysteriously still alive. Meanwhile, Tarquin has reached the bookshop where the Sibylline Books are being rewritten, but Ella and Tyson are not there. Meg and Hazel fight Tarquin. Diana finally arrives, kills Tarquin, and heals Apollo. Reyna and Lavinia, along with Peaches the karpos , return. Arion and Reyna pledges herself to Diana (Artemis) and joins the Hunters. Dakota, son of Bacchus and
2900-561: Is terrified because she had a dream about Jason being killed by Caligula . The five arrive in Camp Jupiter, where they are greeted by Frank Zhang and Reyna Ramirez-Arellano, the praetors . The camp decides that they will all carry on with Jason's plan to build temples honoring the gods. Apollo then faints and has a dream about Caligula and Commodus discussing their plan to either take Camp Jupiter without conflict or destroy it using Greek fire from Caligula's yachts. Apollo wakes up in
3000-455: Is the first book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. It introduces Percy Jackson , Annabeth Chase , and Grover Underwood , and follows their quest to recover Zeus' stolen master bolt, which was thought to be stolen by Hades . It was released on July 1, 2005. The Sea of Monsters is the second book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. In this book, Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson , Percy's cyclops brother, need to go to
3100-499: Is the fourth book in The Heroes of Olympus series. It features Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang, and Nico di Angelo as they continue sailing toward Greece to rescue Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase, both of whom have fallen to Tartarus in the previous book's epilogue. Meanwhile, Percy and Annabeth are trying to find their own way out of the hellish realm. The book also reintroduces Calypso. The book
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3200-561: Is the second book in the series. It was released on May 2, 2017. The book continues the story of Apollo as the mortal Lester, as he leaves Camp Half-Blood and journeys across North America to restore the remaining four Oracles and learn how to defeat the Triumvirate of Roman emperors with the help of Leo Valdez, Calypso , Festus the bronze dragon, the Hunters of Artemis, and some new characters, including ex-Hunters Emmie and Jo and their daughter Georgina. Apollo has to face and defeat
3300-520: Is the third book in The Heroes of Olympus series. The book features Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, Jason Grace, Piper McLean, Leo Valdez, Hazel Levesque, and Frank Zhang traveling to Greece to prevent Gaea 's awakening while simultaneously also trying to uncover the gigantic long-lost statue of Athena , the Athena Parthenos , in Rome . It was released on October 2, 2012. The House of Hades
3400-459: Is the third book in the series. It was released on May 1, 2018. The book follows Lester Papadopoulos / Apollo , Meg McCaffrey . and Grover Underwood while they try to rescue Herophile , an oracle that speaks only in puzzles, from the Roman emperor Caligula . After fleeing the Labyrinth , Apollo dreams about the oracle saying that he must save her even though it is a trap. When he wakes up, he
3500-622: The Bermuda Triangle , also known as the Sea of Monsters, in order to find the Golden Fleece to save their camp and to rescue their satyr friend Grover from the cyclops Polyphemus . It was released April 1, 2006. The Titan's Curse is the third book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The book features Percy, Grover, Thalia Grace , Zoë Nightshade , and Bianca di Angelo traveling to San Francisco in order to rescue
3600-469: The Minotaur was kept. Poseidon had given a white bull to King Minos to use it as a sacrifice. Instead, the king kept the bull for himself and sacrificed another. As revenge, Poseidon, with the help of Aphrodite , made King Minos's wife, Pasiphaë , lust for the bull. Pasiphaë asked Daedalus to help her. Daedalus built a hollow, wooden cow, covered in real cow hide for Pasiphaë, so she could mate with
3700-477: The San Francisco Bay Area . On their way, they are attacked by an eurynomos , but a girl with pink hair arrives with dryads and a faun and kills the eurynomous. She introduces herself as Lavinia and says she will take them to Camp Jupiter. All the dryads and fauns start to leave, but as the last faun, Don, tries to go, Lavinia says that he owes her for helping him. They carry Jason's coffin to
3800-547: The Styx , who has been following him since he broke his oath on the Styx in the first book, congratulates him on learning his lesson, to always uphold a promise. Apollo becomes a god again, and, two weeks later, reappears on Mount Olympus , where he is welcomed back as an Olympian . Apollo splits himself into multiple Apollos and goes to find his friends. He visits Camp Half-Blood, where Nico and Will tell him that Nico has been hearing
3900-478: The dryads he has captured to kill Apollo or be killed by his children. Meg stops them, choosing to stand by Apollo. Nico shows up with a Tauri Silvestri, who is now under his control. Nico orders it to kill Nero. The bull fails, but still creates chaos. Nero tries to find the remote with the button to release the Sassanid gas. One of the Imperial demigods manages to stab Apollo, but he survives. Nero finally finds
4000-490: The Gods of Asgard , to discuss a common problem. Apollo, after fainting due to exhaustion on arrival, has a dream in which he sees Lu telling Nero about their escape and Nero giving an ultimatum to Meg and Apollo to surrender within two days or else Manhattan will burn. The next day, Apollo, Meg, Apollo's son Will Solace, and Will's boyfriend Nico di Angelo, go to meet Rachel Elizabeth Dare, an oracle. She warns them about some cattle that are standing outside. After they discuss
4100-505: The Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus' wings is a late one by Ovid in his Metamorphoses . After Theseus and Ariadne eloped together, Daedalus and his son Icarus were imprisoned by King Minos in the labyrinth that he had built. He could not leave Crete by sea, as King Minos kept a strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled
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4200-510: The Olympians series. The Hidden Oracle is the first book in The Trials of Apollo series. It was released on May 3, 2016. It features Apollo as a 16 year old mortal named Lester Papadopoulos and introduces a new demigod Meg McCaffrey as they travel to Camp Half-Blood and fight monsters sent by Emperor Nero in order to save the Oracle of Dodona . It also sees the return of Leo Valdez who
4300-569: The Olympians series. Themes include love and teenage angst, as well as dealing with homosexuality. Riordan based some of his series on The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum . The Lost Hero is the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. It features three new heroes, Roman demigod Jason Grace , as well as Greek demigods Piper McLean and Leo Valdez travelling to California in order to rescue Hera from being consumed by
4400-531: The Olympians Series is a collection of essays "edited by Rick Riordan with Leah Wilson" and published by Borders Group in 2008; an expanded edition was published by BenBella Books in 2013. The second edition front cover promotes both an "original introduction by Rick Riordan" and "New Essays: Updated through The Last Olympian ". Leah Wilson is editor-in-chief of the Smart Pop series in which both
4500-503: The Shield of Achilles. It is clear that this Daedalus was not an original character of Homer's. Rather, Homer was referencing mythology that his audience was already familiar with. Daedalus is not mentioned again in literature until the fifth century BC, but he is widely praised as an inventor, artist, and architect, though classical sources disagree on which inventions exactly are attributable to him. In Pliny's Natural History (7.198) he
4600-595: The Singer of Apollo is a short story appearing in the Guys Read anthology Other Worlds . It features Percy Jackson and Grover Underwood in New York City trying to recover the gold Singer of Apollo. The Camp Half-Blood/Kane Chronicles crossovers are a series of short stories that feature two characters each, one from Percy Jackson & the Olympians and one from The Kane Chronicles . They were published in
4700-458: The Star , was announced on September 23, 2022, and was released on May 2, 2023. Daedalus In Greek mythology , Daedalus ( UK : / ˈ d iː d ə l ə s / , US : / ˈ d ɛ d ə l ə s / ; Greek : Δαίδαλος; Latin : Daedalus ; Etruscan : Taitale ) was a skillful architect and craftsman, seen as a symbol of wisdom, knowledge and power. He is the father of Icarus ,
4800-581: The Tower to help rehabilitate the Imperial children after the years of abuse they endured, but Apollo has to go defeat Python. Using the Labyrinth, he reaches Delphi in minutes. Apollo faces off against Python for the final time. He is quickly overpowered by the giant snake, who utters a prophecy saying Apollo will fall, and Apollo loses his bow. The arrow of Dodona sacrifices itself to defeat Python and finishes Python's prophecy, saying that Apollo will fall, but must also rise again. Apollo manages to blind Python and make him loosen his hold by hitting Python in
4900-411: The book, Percy continues his quest for letters of recommendation for college which began in the previous novel, this time from Hecate. The Heroes of Olympus is a pentalogy of books written by Riordan. It chronicles the events of seven demigods and their obstacles involving the waking of the earth goddess, Gaea , and their efforts to stop her. It picks up a year after the end of the Percy Jackson &
5000-483: The building so that Nero believes that she is still on his side, as Nero can see them through a security camera installed in a nearby building. Apollo and Meg reach Camp Half-Blood and the Grey Sisters recite another couplet of the terza rima prophecy. They find out that Chiron has gone to a meeting with gods from other pantheons, including Bastet from The Kane Chronicles and Mímir from Magnus Chase and
5100-599: The bull. As a result, Pasiphaë gave birth to the Minotaur , a creature with the body of a man, but the head and tail of a bull. King Minos ordered the Minotaur to be imprisoned and guarded in the Labyrinth built by Daedalus for that purpose. In the story of the Labyrinth as told by the Hellenes , the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way back out with the help of Ariadne's thread . It
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#17327719300035200-426: The camp in the midst of a war. Apollo calls for divine help on Temple Hill. He decides to call Diana . Frank sacrifices himself by burning his firewood lifeline in the process of killing Caligula to save the other legionnaires. Commodus gives the order to fire, but due to "Plan L", this fails and the yachts are destroyed. Apollo kills Commodus in the grief of losing Frank. But after the fire dies it’s revealed that Frank
5300-482: The caves of Delphi , and regain his immortality. On October 6, 2021, it was announced that Riordan would write a novel in collaboration with Mark Oshiro focused on Nico di Angelo and Will Solace, set after The Tower of Nero . The title of the novel, The Sun and the Star , was revealed on September 23, 2022. The Sun and the Star was released on May 2, 2023. The Demigod Files is a collection published by Hyperion on February 10, 2009, written entirely by Riordan. It
5400-517: The city, he was bitten by a snake and died. A town on this site, Daidala, is said to be named after him, and is mentioned in Roman sources. Another version of the story places his death on a small island in the Nile river , where he was later worshipped. Yet another version has him dying after being bitten by a water snake in Lycia (western Asia Minor ). The anecdotes are literary and late. However, in
5500-515: The clash of the Greek and Roman camps in the horizon. The book was released on October 7, 2014. The Trials of Apollo is a pentalogy of books written by Riordan. It chronicles the life of Apollo after his being made mortal by Zeus as a punishment for his actions during The Heroes of Olympus series. The first book, The Hidden Oracle, was featured on May 5, 2016. It also features most of the characters from The Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson and
5600-412: The correct remote and presses the button. Suddenly, Will, Rachel, and Lu show up, along with the troglodyte leader and the emperor's fasces. To Nero's disbelief, the troglodytes have also been successful in disabling the gas trap. Nero is forced to reveal the truth, that he is not that powerful, and is being used as a pawn by Python . If Nero is killed, then Python would become nearly impossible to kill, as
5700-571: The curse on her summoned jewels so they can now be spent, and Percy and Annabeth are attending university there. Percy studies marine biology and Annabeth architecture . He visits the Indianapolis Union Station , where Georgina is being taught by Jo how to forge blades. Reyna is there with the other Hunters of Artemis to hunt down the Teumessian Fox , as well as Leo, since Calypso is now in high school and had gone to
5800-526: The daily duties of being a member of the Twelfth Legion of Rome. The book offers an insight at the lives of campers at Camp Jupiter and the havoc that the battle with Gaea left on the camp. Some of the books have been adapted into graphic novels. The Lightning Thief Graphic Novel is an adaptation of The Lightning Thief into a graphic novel. It was adapted by Robert Venditti , illustrated by Attila Futaki, and colored by José Villarrubia , and
5900-431: The entire Triumvirate ’s power would go to him. Nero is given a choice, to fight a hopeless battle and die, or live for some more years in a large prison. He chooses the first option, but gets into a tug of war with Apollo over the fasces, which Apollo was trying to break. Lester manages to use his godly powers to revoke Nero's divinity and immortality, and breaks the fasces, killing Nero. Camp Half-Blood's forces stay at
6000-589: The evil magician Setne from collecting the Upper and Lower Crowns of Egypt and becoming a god. The short was originally published in the paperback edition of The House of Hades along with the short story Percy Jackson and the Sword of Hades . It was later published as an e-short. Demigods of Olympus is an interactive e-series in which the reader is the main character. The first three stories were published in Rick Riordan's application, Demigods of Olympus and
6100-413: The eyes with the arrow of Dodona as well as his elbow. He drags Python into Tartarus with him, fulfilling Python's prophecy in a literal sense. The two almost fall down into Chaos but are saved by a ledge. Apollo is attacked by Python, but manages to throw him off the ledge into Chaos, destroying him forever and freeing the oracles from his power. Apollo is left dangling on the edge, when the goddess of
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#17327719300036200-437: The fasces, while Apollo goes to save Meg. Upstairs, he realizes that the entire lower floor area has become a battleground, Camp Half-Blood demigods having come in. Kayla and Austin, two of his children, help Apollo reach Meg. On the way, Lester enters the wrong room, one containing the buttons to burn up Manhattan; the button is pressed, but nothing happens, as the vats have been disabled. After some searching, Apollo runs past
6300-421: The feathers and make them heavy and he would fall. After Daedalus and Icarus had passed Samos , Delos , and Lebynthos , Icarus disobeyed his father and began to soar upward toward the sun. The sun melted the beeswax and his feathers fell off. Icarus plunged into the sea. Seeing Icarus' wings floating, Daedalus wept, cursed his art, and after finding Icarus's body on an island shore buried him there. Then he named
6400-407: The final prophecy from Ella and Tyson; they realize it is in terza rima form and they have to find more stanzas in the east. They go in hopes of being reunited with their friends from Camp Half-Blood. The Tower of Nero is the fifth and final book of The Trials of Apollo . It was released on October 6, 2020. While returning to New York, Apollo and Meg encounter an amphisbaena , which recites
6500-458: The founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela , founded in the 680s BC on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani . Daedalus and the myths associated with him are often depicted in paintings, sculptures, and more by later artists. The myth about his flight and the fall of Icarus
6600-563: The fourth was original to a collection of all four on July 14, 2015. This book is a retelling of several mythological stories about the Greek Gods as narrated by Percy Jackson. It was released on August 19, 2014. This book is a retelling of several mythological stories about various Greek heroes as narrated by Percy Jackson. It is the sequel to Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods . It was released on August 18, 2015. Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and
6700-469: The giants and to defeat the king of giants, Porphyrion . It was released on October 12, 2010. The Son of Neptune is the second book in The Heroes of Olympus series. The book features Percy Jackson and two new heroes, Roman demigods Hazel Levesque and Frank Zhang traveling to Alaska to free Thanatos , the God of Death, from the giant Alcyoneus . It was released on October 4, 2011. The Mark of Athena
6800-414: The god Apollo , who has been turned into a mortal named Lester Papadopoulos as punishment from his father and king of the gods Zeus . Lester (Apollo) meets some new friends and trains at Camp Half-Blood. He must save and return five undiscovered oracles to get back to his godly form. Zeus is angry at Apollo for several reasons, most notably for giving his blessing to his Roman descendant Octavian , allowing
6900-621: The god Harpocrates and save Camp Jupiter from King Tarquin , Emperors Commodus and Caligula, and their respective armies. The goddess Diana , the Roman form of Apollo's twin sister, also made an appearance. The Tower of Nero is the fifth and final book in The Trials of Apollo series. It was released on October 6, 2020. It features Apollo, Meg, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Nico di Angelo, and his boyfriend and Apollo's son Will Solace as they fight to prevent Emperor Nero from burning New York City . Apollo must also defeat his nemesis Python , who has been controlling Apollo's source of prophetic prowess in
7000-429: The goddess Artemis and Annabeth. It was released on May 11, 2007. The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. In the book, Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson, Nico di Angelo , and Rachel Elizabeth Dare are tasked with finding Daedalus in the Labyrinth so he can help them keep their camp safe against the Titan army. In this book, Percy also meets Calypso . The book
7100-532: The help of Piper McLean and Jason Grace . After a raid on Caligula's naval fleet that results in Jason's death, Apollo and Meg steal a pair of Caligula's sandals, which let people navigate the Labyrinth . Piper, upset over Jason's death, is unable to help them further. The next day, Grover, Meg, and Apollo walk the Labyrinth using Caligula's shoes. They free Herophile, discover a new prophecy, and free Helios . Piper comes back and kills Medea , an evil sorceress who
7200-419: The inventor at birth, but that he was named so later after the daedala. Some of the functions of Daedalus overlapped with those of Aristaeus (Aristaeos), another famous Greek inventor god. But Aristaeos mostly concerned himself with the rural and agricultural arts. Daedalus was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear the idea of a rival. His sister had placed her son under his charge to be taught
7300-643: The island Icaria in the memory of his child. The southeast end of the Aegean Sea where Icarus fell into the water was also called "Mare Icarium" or the Icarian Sea. In a twist of fate, a partridge, presumably the nephew Daedalus murdered, mocked Daedalus as he buried his son. The fall and death of Icarus is seemingly portrayed as punishment for Daedalus's murder of his nephew. After burying Icarus, Daedalus traveled to Camicus in Sicily , where he stayed as
7400-402: The land routes as well, Daedalus set to work to make wings for himself and his son Icarus. Using bird feathers of various sizes, thread, and beeswax, he shaped them to resemble a bird's wings. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the beeswax that held his feathers together, nor too low, because the sea foam would soak
7500-432: The latter to rise to power during The Heroes of Olympus series. The final book of The Heroes of Olympus , The Blood of Olympus , takes place about six months before The Trials of Apollo . The Hidden Oracle is the first book of the series. It is told in first-person by the main character Apollo , and it uses haikus for chapter titles. The book was released on May 3, 2016. The book opens with Apollo landing in
7600-485: The longtime centurion of the Fifth Cohort, passes away overnight due to wounds from the battle. Don the faun also dies and gets reincarnated into a laurel tree , Apollo's tree of victory. Hazel is voted new praetor of Camp Jupiter and Lavinia is voted in as centurion of the Fifth Cohort. Apollo receives his old godly bow as a gift from Camp Jupiter, Meg receives seeds, and they set off to New York after receiving
7700-467: The lost Camp Half-Blood orientation video, directed and produced by the god Apollo . The book features transcripts, interviews, and a short story about the video and the campers who are watching it. Camp Jupiter Classified: A Probatio's Journal is a companion book to the Trials of Apollo series. Released on May 5, 2020, the short story follows a Probatio at Camp Jupiter named Claudia as she deals with
7800-420: The main series. The first book in the series, The Hidden Oracle , was released on May 3, 2016. The second book, The Dark Prophecy , was released on May 2, 2017. The third book, The Burning Maze , was released on May 1, 2018 The fourth book, The Tyrant's Tomb , was released on September 24, 2019. The fifth book in the series, The Tower of Nero , was released on October 6, 2020. The series follows
7900-412: The mechanical arts as an apprentice. His nephew is named variously as Perdix , Talos, or Calos, although some sources say that Perdix was the name of Daedalus' sister. The nephew showed striking evidence of ingenuity. Finding the spine of a fish on the seashore, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one end with
8000-625: The paperback first edition (2009) and the second edition were issued by BenBella. The essays were written by people likely to be recognized by fans of the series. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide is a guide to the world of Percy Jackson written by Mary-Jane Knight, who is not credited on the front cover. It features illustrations of characters in the series by Antonio Caparo (as trading cards in pockets) and chapters about Percy Jackson, Camp Half-Blood, and places, gods, monsters, and items from mythology. It
8100-498: The riddle, accepted the shell and gave it to Daedalus. Daedalus tied the string to an ant which, lured by a drop of honey at one end, walked through the seashell stringing it all the way through. With the riddle solved, Minos realized that Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and insisted he be handed over. Cocalus agreed to do so, but convinced Minos to take a bath first. In the bath, Cocalus' daughters killed Minos, possibly by pouring boiling water over his body. In some versions, it
8200-453: The second Triumvirate emperor, Commodus , with whom Apollo shares a regretful history, to obtain the Throne of Memory for his next prophecy. Apollo travels to the oracle's cave, gets the prophecy, and comes back to defend himself and his friends from Commodus, driving Commodus from Indianapolis and blinding him in the process as he reveals a sliver of his true godly form. The Burning Maze
8300-543: The second series, The Heroes of Olympus , nearly identical in structure to The Demigod Files . The main contents are four stories: "The Diary of Luke Castellan", "Percy Jackson and the Staff of Hermes", "Leo Valdez and the Quest for Buford" and, by Haley Riordan, "Son of Magic". It contains puzzles, games, black-and-white drawings by Steve James, and glossy color illustrations of characters by Antonio Caparo. Percy Jackson and
8400-540: The second stanza of the terza rima prophecy. They are attacked by a Gaul working for Nero, Luguselwa, or Lu, and her germani . Lu turns out to be on their side and helps them escape. The trio reaches the Upper East Side and they decide to go to Percy Jackson for help, but soon learn that Percy and his girlfriend Annabeth Chase are on the West Coast . They stage a fight against Lu with Apollo pushing Lu off
8500-426: The troglodytes' encampment underground, they decide that Will, Nico, and Rachel will go with the troglodytes to disable the vats and alert Camp Half-Blood, while Meg and Apollo surrender themselves to get closer to Nero's fasces , the source of his power and immortality, and destroy it. However, it is revealed that Nero already knew of their plan. Lu's hands are cut off, and she and Apollo are thrown in prison, while Meg
8600-405: The tunnel where Lavinia knows there is a shortcut to Camp Jupiter. Hazel Levesque suddenly arrives, as well as two more of the euronymous. They enter the tunnel while Hazel tries to kill the euronymous. Apollo tries to sing a song to help Hazel but is scratched in the stomach by a eurynomous before Hazel kills it. Due to the scratch, Apollo starts to turn into a corpse. Hazel sees Jason's coffin and
8700-563: The uncle of Perdix , and possibly also the father of Iapyx . Among his most famous creations are the wooden cow for Pasiphaë , the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete which imprisoned the Minotaur , and wings that he and his son Icarus used to attempt to escape Crete. It was during this escape that Icarus did not heed his father's warnings and flew too close to the sun; the wax holding his wings together melted and Icarus fell to his death. The name Daidalos seems to be attested in Linear B ,
8800-721: The world of Norse mythology ). Three short stories have been published which join The Kane Chronicles [Demigods and Magicians] and the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles ; Camp Half-Blood characters have also appeared in both the Magnus and Kane books. Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a series of adventure fiction books written by Rick Riordan . Set in the United States , the books are predominantly based on Greek mythology and deal with
8900-509: The world's oracles have stopped working. The two go on a quest to locate and protect one of the remaining oracles, Dodona , and to learn how to help the other oracles and regain Apollo's immortality. Apollo discovers that the first oracle he has to save is heavily guarded by the mysterious 'Beast', who is revealed to be one of three evil Roman emperors -turned-minor gods, the Roman emperor Nero , as well as Meg's stepfather. The Dark Prophecy
9000-453: Was a festival, the Daedala , in which a temporary wooden altar was fashioned and an effigy was made from an oak-tree and dressed in bridal attire. It was carried in a cart with a woman who acted as bridesmaid. The image was called daedala . Some sources claim that the daedala did not receive their name from Daedalus, but the opposite. Pausanias claims that Daedalus was not the name given to
9100-446: Was presumed to be dead and was resurrected in the last book of Heroes of Olympus, Blood of Olympus. The Dark Prophecy is the second book in The Trials of Apollo series. It was released on May 2, 2017. It features Apollo going on a journey with Leo Valdez and Calypso to find Oracle of Trophonius and preventing it from falling to the hand of Emperor Commodus . The Burning Maze is the third book in The Trials of Apollo series. It
9200-578: Was published on February 21, 2017. The Trials of Apollo The Trials of Apollo is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively form a sequel to the Heroes of Olympus series. It is set in the same world as Riordan's Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series and references characters and happenings from earlier stories. A supplementary book, Camp Jupiter Classified , has also been released in addition to
9300-447: Was published on October 12, 2010. The Sea of Monsters Graphic Novel is the graphic novel version of The Sea of Monsters . It was adapted by Robert Venditti , illustrated by Attila Futaki, and colored by Tamás Gáspár, and was published on July 2, 2013. The Titan's Curse Graphic Novel is the graphic novel of The Titan's Curse . It was adapted by Robert Venditti , illustrated by Attila Futaki, and colored by Greg Guilhaumond, and
9400-465: Was published on October 8, 2013. The Lost Hero Graphic Novel is the adaptation of The Lost Hero into a graphic novel. It was adapted by Robert Venditti , illustrated by Nate Powell , and colored by Orpheus Collar, and was published on October 7, 2014. The Son of Neptune Graphic Novel is the adaptation of The Son of Neptune into a graphic novel. It was adapted by Robert Venditti , illustrated by Antoine Dod, and colored by Orpheus Collar, and
9500-598: Was released by Hyperion on January 18, 2010 (156 pp; 1-4231-2171-6) and termed Book 8 in the Percy Jackson series by Amazon or the publisher. The British edition was published by Puffin Books in March as Percy Jackson: The Ultimate Guide . Camp Half-Blood Confidential is a companion guide to the Trials of Apollo book series. Released on August 15, 2017, the guide follows the campers of Camp Half-Blood as they rediscover
9600-516: Was released on May 1, 2018. It features Apollo, Meg, Grover Underwood, Piper McLean, and Jason Grace as they go to free the Oracle of Erythraea who has been imprisoned by Emperor Caligula . They also stop Caligula’s plan to make himself the sun god with Apollo’s and Helios’s essence. The Tyrant's Tomb is the fourth book in The Trials of Apollo series. It was released on September 24, 2019. It features Apollo, Meg, Hazel Levesque, Reyna Ramirez-Arellano, and new hero Lavinia Asimov as they race to free
9700-576: Was released on May 2, 2017. It covers background facts about Camp Half-Blood. This book explores the story of one of the side characters, Claudia, a daughter of Cardea and descendent of Mercury , through her personal diary. She is a Roman demigod of the 12th legion. Rick Riordan has since collaborated with writer Mark Oshiro for a new novel in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles , which follows Nico and Will travelling together to Tartarus to rescue Bob. The book's title, The Sun and
9800-547: Was released on May 6, 2008. The Last Olympian is the fifth and originally final book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. In the book, all the demigods from Camp Half-Blood help defend Manhattan , in particular the Empire State Building a.k.a. Mount Olympus against Kronos and his army while the gods fight Typhon . The book was released on May 5, 2009. Originally announced in October 2022 as
9900-487: Was released on October 8, 2013. The Blood of Olympus is the fifth and final book in The Heroes of Olympus series. It features two parallel stories: the first has the seven demigods finally reaching Greece and working to defeat the giants at the Acropolis of Athens , while the second has Reyna Ramírez-Arellano, Nico di Angelo, and Coach Gleeson Hedge delivering the Athena Parthenos back to Camp Half-Blood with
10000-490: Was working with Caligula (also Helios's grandchild). The book ends with Leo arriving from Camp Jupiter, learning about Jason's death, and Apollo and Meg going to San Francisco while Gleeson Hedge, his wife Mellie, their baby Chuck, Piper, and Piper's dad set off to Oklahoma , with a ride from Leo and Festus. The Tyrant's Tomb is the fourth book in the series. It was released on September 24, 2019. The story starts off with Apollo and Meg taking Jason's body to Camp Jupiter in
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