User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-4649443-20121014204738/@comment-5577244-20121016022022

A good example (at least in the book) is Athena/Minerva. This is probably the best way he explained the difference. He said that Athena was a goddess which sort of represented Greece as Bellona represents Rome. when she became the Roman Minerva she lost alot of status because the Romans were not Greeks, and did not have the same beleifs. At least thats what I understood.

'This is actually wrong because when I did a bit of research into the Roman gods I discovered that aside from Juno, Minerva was the most highly respected goddess of the Romans. Them along with Juppiter and Mars made up the power core of Olympus in the eyes of the Romans.