User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-5577244-20121222060112

Question: How exactly is the statue supposed to heal the rift between Greeks and Romans? Or at all in the coming war.

My best guess so far is that it it makes Athena come back to reality and convice Zues to come to his senses and let the gods help in the battle against the Giants.