Annabeth is shocked to be facing Minerva who orders her not to call the goddess that as Minerva hates what she has been turned into. Annabeth mistakes Minerva for her mother Athena, the goddess' Greek form, but Minerva, showing no recognition of Annabeth, tells her that Athena was her name before the Romans sacked Athens, took her identity and changed her into Minerva. Annabeth finds the goddess trying to read a subway map to figure out how to return home, complaining that the way is complex and that if Odysseus were there, he'd understand. Later, as Annabeth thinks about the Mark of Athena, she recalls meeting Minerva in Grand Central Station while on her way home from Sally Jackson's apartment while Percy was still missing. He then states that Minerva has no Roman children. Terminus is appalled when Annabeth Chase states that she is the daughter of Athena, the Greek form of Minerva. Minerva is mentioned by Vitellius when talking about Gorgon Blood as she gave a vial from the right side to Vitellius' ancestor, Aesculapius. Under the Emperor Domitian, who claimed her special protection, the worship of Minerva attained its greatest vogue in the Roman Empire. A shrine atop Rome's Aventine Hill dedicated to Minerva functioned as a meeting place for guilds of craftsmen, including at one time dramatic poets and actors. This is reinforced by the fact that she was apart of the Capitoline triad, hailed as a guardian of the state alongside the gods Jupiter and Juno. Some scholars believe that her cult was that of Athena introduced at Rome from Etruria. She is also the patron goddess of medicine and is described by the poet Ovid as the "Goddess of a thousand works." The goddess embodied the application of intellect in everyday tasks and was accredited with inventing spinning, weaving, numbers, and music. Minerva, in Roman religion, was the goddess of wisdom, commerce, poetry and crafts and unlike the Greek Athena (to whom Minerva was equivalent), she had little to no association with war and combat.
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