User blog comment:Tayley18/Comparison Between the Greeks and the Romans/@comment-4515675-20111217074555

I'm sorry but this is just so silly. Not that I want to argue with you but this discussion over Greeks being better than Romans has been going on for centuries way, way before PJO and HoO came out. You can't say that one was better than the other, they both had their good and not so good side. It's like trying to compare two of the greatest powers today to see which is better. You think the Greeks didn't have their own traitorous politicians and everyone there was just sweet and nice? Obviously that was not the case.

Going back to the two camps I'm almost sure that a large majority of people like Camp Half-Blood because it was introduced first. We got to see the people there and their customs through five books while we only got a glimpse at Camp Jupiter before and after the quest.

People keep complaining how the Romans are so strict but keep in mind that they also allow legacies which aren't as powerful as a demigod or don't posses any powers at all but still attract monsters so they have to teach them how to survive. Greeks don't have legacies or if they do they're not often talked about which makes you wonder why. RR did say that most Greek demigods don't last long enough to build a family so that raises a lot of questions. How can the Romans survive and have generation after generation when the Greeks are unable to?

The answer to that is actually quite easy. Romans are about groups and families. They revolve around the idea that no one is left behind and the cohort becomes your family and that everyone in the legion needs protection. People ditch the idea of cohorts because it's unfair. Now think about it for a second, the credentials that some of those demigods and legacies have don't just poof out of nowhere. You can't have your parents or grandparents write you a latter on how good you are and then be sent into the first cohort. We saw that with Frank and let's be honest now, until Percy arrived the fifth cohort was a walking disaster. What I'm trying to explain is that they don't send the weakest members on dangerous quests which is why so many of them survive.

We also have to keep in mind that the gods obviously play favorites with the Greeks because from what I understood they don't show themselves that often in the Roman camp. So Romans have to take care of themselves which is why the praetor position is a lot harder than being the leader of the Greek camp. You can't have Chiron or even Mr.D there to do things for you, in Camp Jupiter you have to deal with your own problems and learn how to survive which is again a great example as how Romans manage to built families while most Greeks don't even reach that age.

Lastly, regarding Mars/Ares and the names of the camps. I love Mars yet I hated Ares and I'm not sure what you mean by so strict. Mars wasn't strict at all, if anything he was laid back, sarcastic and funny all the things that Ares isn't. He also didn't seem so mean as Ares and in general much, much smarter. I love what he said about being against slaughter a thing that Ares would have never said. As for the camp names, I really don't see any reason to compare them but if you think about it logically, when you call someone a Half-Blood you usually mean it as an insult. Now we know why they're called that and personally I have no problem with the name but I don't understand why you have a problem with Camp Jupiter especially when on their t-shirts you don't have Camp Jupiter written on it but SPQR which looks kind of awesome especially with those gold leaves (and I personally like purple more than organe).