Mark of Athena
Title: Mark of Athena
Author: Rick Riordan
Number of Pages: 574 (Hardcover)
This week I am reading the Mark
of Athena by Rick Riordan. It is a fantasy/adventure novel based on Roman and
Greek mythology and focuses on 7 demigods (each as a narrator). One unknown
word is “ballistae”. This work occurs in the sentence “Leo was manning the ballistae.”
Definition:
A piece of military equipment that was used in ancient times to hurl stones and
other missiles over a distance
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