User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-50.55.151.60-20121028040202/@comment-5112532-20121030145251

If you want to look at it for a *deeper meaning* than maybe it's a Greek POV of Rome, because Greece came first so the demigods are thinking, this is a rip-off of Athens, or something?!

And then in HoH, the Roman demigods will be thinking WOW, why am I not Greek? or something..haha. Let's say, they admire the Greeks heritage and culture, which came before Greece.