User blog comment:Annabeth Chase The Wise Girl/Athena Parthenos/@comment-5651660-20130106164338

Athena is basically the gods' war general in Greece, but the Romans stripped her of power when her statue got stolen. Bringing back the statue brings Minerva back to full power, as powerful as the original Athena. It also fixes the Greco-Roman problem. So the demigods might be willing to work together to defeat Gaea.