The Heroes of Olympus

The Heroes of Olympus Etymology

Perseus54321 posted on Apr 23, 2011 at 11:47PM
Most of you know the names of the character's from the books. But have you guys ever realized the word play in the names? There are some with nothing about them like Percy Jackson (except that his name is Perseus), you guys get the point and whenever you find one out put it down here to let people realize there had been something about the names of their favorite characters.

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over a year ago AmazingPercy said…
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Conner and Travis STOLE- who are the twin brother/leaders of the hermes cabin. Hermes is the god of thieves and their last name is stole like someone stole them:)
over a year ago sweetieme3 said…
Thalia is the name of one of the nine muses, I think
over a year ago partypony said…
^yep.

Annabeth- It's an anagram for Athena, with a few extra letters.
Underwood- nature reference.
Luke- um... possible reference to Luke Skywalker? Maybe RR was a Star Wars fan?
over a year ago AmazingPercy said…
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there is also
Jake Mason son of Heph. and the Masons were a group of people who worked with stone
Will Solace- son of Apollo and Sol is the roman form for Helios
katie gardner-daughter of Demeter-close to gardener
Bianca and Nico d'Angelo- children of Hades- Bianca comes from Bia and Nico comes from Nike and d'angelo means of Angels in Italian
+Grover has "grove" like a small group of tress
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over a year ago Perseus54321 said…
Actually I think the word play with Nico is that Nico is close to Necro which means death and Di Angelo means 'of angels' so 'death of angels' although I'm not sure about Bianca
over a year ago AmazingPercy said…
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yeah it was along those lines
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