The basic premise is that all characters from Greek mythology have carried on onto the modern world. Still essentially doing what they have always done. The Greek Gods are brought into the modern days. Hermes has sneakers with wings and Ares rides really tough motorbikes. Apollo, God of music, is completely obsessed with iTunes and rock band. It is a modern expression of the history in the past generations in a different perspective that is easily understandable. In Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief the Greek Gods are part of the western civilization. The Greek Gods also appear frequently as characters in the novel and many of them have children with the mortals. Riordan has mixed Greek mythology with modern day fantasy. The world portrayed
