Percy Jackson & the Olympians

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Is this series accurate?

Does it actually seem like true representations of figures from Greek myth? au do people who have read these vitabu never read anything remotely mythical besides those?
I'd like to know before i start reading.
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LaughingHyena said:
I first started kusoma Percy Jackson because I am a bit of a mythology shabiki myself, and so I decided to try it. The accuracy is a large part of the storyline; the names of the gods and goddesses are correct and their powers and patrons are the same. However, the books, being humorous, represent the gods in different ways and give them human personalities (for eg. Zeus is depicted in a suit, Poseidon in a Hawaiian shati and shorts, Dionysus drinking Diet koki XD). So in a way, the figures from Greek myth are kind of the same in terms of their place in mythology, but viewed in a zaidi humorous, satirical take on the original myths. I thought they were good books, though I personally wouldn't recommend the Heroes of Olympus ones afterwards, the storyline gets a bit too cheesy and unrealistic kwa then....
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I'll keep that in mind. One thing that i already have a problem with is that one character is a daughter of Athena. She's a virgin goddess. It's just as ridiculous as giving Artemis au Hestia a child.
MasterOfFear posted zaidi ya mwaka mmoja uliopita
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Yeah that is pretty dumb alright, I can't remember what the reason was for her having a child in the vitabu au even if there was one...basically the vitabu aim mostly to entertain rather than educate, but the mythology is reasonably accurate to an extent. Admittedly there are some cliches (just how many vitabu are there about teenagers fulfilling prophecies and saving the world these days??) and at some parts it is a little cheesy, but the humour drowns out a lot of this and ujumla, jumla I would reccomend it as a funny and entertaining series.
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Athena's children are born from her thoughts , silly.
yellowfang9828 posted zaidi ya mwaka mmoja uliopita
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But she's supposed to be a virgin. She's not supposed to have any kids, from her thoughts au otherwise.
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missing_99 said:
Growing up, I never really heard of any of the Greek gods, except Zeus and Athena. The main gods I had ever known about was Anubis (Egyptian), and Neptune (Roman). When I got older I began learning about the Greek gods. I'd read a lot of things and even did a project about them before I'd read the Percy Jackson books.

But to me, the vitabu make things zaidi kid-friendly and lighter, if wewe know what I mean. Greek myths are weird, and it gets some things wrong, but yes - I would say the vitabu are lighter, especially in terms of the gods' personalities. I could see the arrogance, but not the lightness. Like Apollo and his obsession with rhymes au haikus? It's been a while since I read them. Generally speaking I do like the myths themselves better . . . they aren't "watered down" au very "friendly". =/
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I read the first book, but than decided they weren't for me. They are definitely for kids.
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Hovde6 said:
The series is mostly acurate Rick Riordan does change a few little things like the god's looks, au adds things like Zoë nightshade isn't really Atlas's daughter, but other than that everything is true, the stories, the gods, the whole story is accurate once wewe get past the few things not accurae, and besides I study Greek mythology outside of the books, just to make shure its accurate look it up online, it will help alot. :)
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