My opinion of Athena The Wise is that if you likereading about books that have goddesses and gods, but aren’t really interested about the facts the you should read this book. I thought this book was great because there is always a challenge for the main character (Athena). When there is a challenge in the story it keeps the reader wrapped into the book- because most readers want to know how the person successfully did the challenge or if they were ableto complete the challenge.
In Goddess Girls: Athena The Wise the main character is Athena. Her task as being the goddess of wisdom and the daughter of the principal, she has to follow her father Zues’s (principal and the biggest, baddest gods of them all) orders. Which is, to befriend a mortal newcomer to Mount Olympus Academy (MOA) and guide him because at his old school he was thoght of a trouble maker in Zues’s eyes, although Athena observes different. She thinks it will be quite fun to be friend with him based on how he makes humor out of his harm to himself ( dropping his club on his foot).
Athena hasn’t become a guide for Heracles (mortal newcomer) until she follows him after they and all their friends had finished drinking shakes. She guided him in how to solve problems without harming the animal. Heracles first task, that athena helped him with was to make sure the Hydra doesn’t bother the people of Lerna anymore. There was another task before this one that Heracles had completed by himself -with violence- that was on the list for him to complete and that task was to kill a lion that was a big problem for the people of Nemea. The reason why Heracles ha sto complete all of these tasks, because it is a chance for him to earn a permanent spot at MOA and maybe a even the chance of future immortality. Heracles’s cousin was the one who had come up with these tasks but the oracle at one of Athena’s dad’s temples was the one who said he needed to do the tasks. Heracles has completed two of the labors that were on the textscroll that he had. He had two down and ten to go. The next labor that Heracles had to complete was to capture one of Artemis’s (one of Athena’s best friends) white deer and show it to Heracles cousin. These tasks became very repetative of each other, there different places/animals, but the idea was the same. Athena believes that his cousin isn’t very imaginative based on the labors he had chosen for his stronger, but younger cousin to complete. The next task wasn’t much different from the past completed ones. It wasto capture a boar but instead, since the boar didn’t seem so dangerous or mean, Athena and Heracles brought the giant boar to Heracles’s cousin to boor his cousin to death since the boar told such booring stories they figured that since his cousin was going to be sitting in a vase all the time then the boar should tell him all of the stories that the boar couldn’t resist telling Athena and Heracles.
The next labor involved cleaning. Which was a relief to Athena, well atleast just glad it didn’t involved hunting down or capturing another animal, but little did she know that their were piles of cow dung the size of mountains to be cleared away. After hours of work they had only cleared one stall.Heracles was smarter than everyone thought he was. He had the idea to of creating a flood with the rivers that were near by. The two of them began to make a dam so the water soon enough would flow over its sides into the valley. Heracles built a second dam on the opposite river. Their task for King Augea’s castle was completed.
Athena had gotten herself into a challenge soon after the cleaning. It was a weaving contest to show that she was a better weaver that this women that was full of herself and thought she was the best, even though Athena was the inventor of weaving. This womens name was, Arachne. There weavings would be judged by the womenof the town and the psition of who was best would be clear. The judging would take place on Thursday morning, which would give Athena five days time.
The next labor Athena had missed and Heracles had to do it on his own, it was just scaring a few birds away.
Will Heracles beable to complete the next nine labors, before his time limit runs out? Will he beable to stay at the school? Does he have the chance at immortality? Will Athena win the competition?
Read this book to find out the answers to these questions and to be entertained by real named goddesses and gods.
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