User blog comment:SayuriDarling/Full first chapter of The Mark of Athena/@comment-98.154.47.185-20120602222913/@comment-4509745-20120603183100

I know that in the Roman pantheon Minerva wasn't as widely respected as was Athena by the Greeks. Think about it. The big Gods in Rome are Bellona, Mars and Jupiter. Mars and Bellona were sacred to the Romans as vicious war dieties. Athena was the face of wisdom and guidence to the Greeks. The Romans looked to Bellona for a female aspect of war. Athena was proud to the greeks, but in the Roman world a lot less important. Look at Frank. He is a son of Mars, and a great tactition. He will guide the seven (another reason i dont think annabeth is one of the seven, since she is a tactition ant the team already has one). Clarisse wasn't that strong of a tactition, thats why her and annabeth worked together. This is a round about way of saying that Minerva wasn't really important to the Rome, where they had enough divine guidence.