User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-4405022-20130224224515/@comment-3146930-20130304232559

I still kind of wonder about that. If Athena/Minerva acts as she did speaking to Annabeth, she couldn't even read a subway map and instantly told Annabeth to get back at the Romans by finding her statue. She hasn't really shown any kind of advanced thinking leading to the two camp fighting. Not to mention that this time around, Gaea was the one that started the fighting between the two with no intervention by Athena/Minerva. And while this could change in later books as we learn more about the history of the Roman/Greek demigods and how the statue works exactly, I'm just going by what we know as of now.

I also understand that some of the Roman gods also have reason to be bad, but they weren't really stripped of anything the same way Athena was. The mention in The Son of Neptune that Neptune was still respected by the Romans, but they feared him and stayed away from the sea. But he is still respected as a lord of horses. Apollo and Diane are still archer gods (as well as the gods of the sun and moon respectively), and the Romans still have archers. It would be like the Romans taking away Hephaestus role as a blacksmith and just making him the god of fire; I'm sure his Roman form Vulcan wouldn't be happy.