Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-4531192-20140214172547/@comment-6679136-20140218232112

You bring up a good point, but the movies do change a lot of things within the book. Forget electrocution, the master bolt would have destoyed the state of New York and much of the surrounding area if used by one other than Zeus or Athena (according to some ancient Greeks, Apollo too, but i doubt it), so Luke and Percy and everyone else would have died if the master bolt was actually used because it is a thousand times more powerful than a hydrogen bomb, and the hydrogen bomb alone can take out the entire city and much of the surrounding area. While Poseidon controls water, electricity can travel through it, and it doesnt seem like something that can be prevented. That is why the Greeks and Romans saw Zeus as supreme, because if the power of lightning and electricity.