Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31481772-20170918161437

I have always thought of a Greek deity and their Roman form as the same being. E.g., Mars and Ares are the same being. He just behaves differently with different followers.

However, in the wiki article on Mars, it is said that there is no way Mars could know what Ares knows (about Percy's personal loyalty in SoN). But Mars IS Ares, just looking and behaving differently. Or does the Mars/Ares being suffer from multiple personality disorder, with Mars being the Roman personality and Ares being the Greek personality? I don't buy that argument as of now.

I would like to present two counter-arguments:

1) Minerva, the Roman aspect of Athena, remembers how she herself used to be (Athena) before the Romans captured the Athena Parthenos. That sounds like a case of depression rather than multiple personalities.

2) Jupiter remembered his daughter Thalia when he visited Beryl Grace in his Roman form. In fact, he behaved like a strict father with her. 