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Monday, February 18, 2013

Mark of Athena

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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