| “ | My nautical senses told me I was about forty miles southeast of the Long Island coast, two hundred feet down; no big deal for a son of Poseidon, but, kids, don't try this at home. A hundred yards in front of me, the continental shelf dropped into darkness. And right on the precipice stood a glittering palace: Poseidon's summer villa. | ” |
–Percy's description in The Chalice of the Gods | ||
Poseidon's Summer Villa is the summer palace of Poseidon. It's located in the Atlantic Ocean about 40 miles southeast of the Long Island coast and about 200 feet down on the precipice of the Hudson Canyon.
Description[]
When Percy is flushed to the villa by Eudora to talk to his father, it's undergoing remodeling with two blue whales towing a marble column the size of an apartment building, hammerhead sharks slathering grout between rows of coral brickwork with their fins and cephalofoils and hundreds of merfolk darting around wearing bright yellow hard hats and at least one dolphin in a reflective safety vest. Poseidon is also having an infinity pool constructed over the abyss of the Hudson Canyon, although Percy doesn't understand the purpose of it given the fact that they're already underwater.[1] Poseidon later mentions that the god and his interior designer still haven't decided whether the bathroom tile should be seafoam or aquamarine.[2]
Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]
The Chalice of the Gods[]
Poseidon has Eudora flush Percy to his summer villa so as to explain to his son in person how Percy needs three godly letters of recommendation in order to get into New Rome University.
When Poseidon calls Alternative High School to cover for him, Percy imagines his father sitting poolside at the villa in an air bubble with his phone plugged into the undersea transatlantic cable, explaining the good reception that Poseidon has.
References[]
- ↑ The Chalice of the Gods, pages 9-10
- ↑ The Chalice of the Gods, page 16