All 14 Uses of

ancient Greece
in
The Lightning Thief

I could start at any point in my short miserable life to prove it, but things really started going bad last May, when our sixth-grade class took a field trip to Manhattan— twenty-eight mental-case kids and two teachers on a yellow school bus, heading to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at ancient Greek and Roman stuff.†
Chpt 1

ancient Greek = relating to the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)

I was too shocked to register that he'd just cursed in Ancient Greek, and I'd understood him perfectly.†
Chpt 3 *

The landscape was dotted with buildings that looked like ancient Greek architecture-an open-air pavilion, an amphitheater, a circular arena-except that they all looked brand new, their white marble columns sparkling in the sun.†
Chpt 5

Each morning I took Ancient Greek from Annabeth, and we talked about the gods and goddesses in the present tense, which was kind of weird.†
Chpt 8

I discovered Annabeth was right about my dyslexia: Ancient Greek wasn't that hard for me to read.†
Chpt 8

Chiron shouted something in Ancient Greek, which I would realize, only later, I had understood perfectly: "Stand ready!†
Chpt 8

She carried a book on famous classical architecture, written in Ancient Greek, to read when she got bored, and a long bronze knife, hidden in her shirt sleeve.†
Chpt 10

" 'Riptide,' " I translated, surprised the Ancient Greek came so easily.†
Chpt 10

They lashed their whips at Annabeth while she waved her knife and yelled in Ancient Greek, telling them to back off.†
Chpt 10

That's an ancient Greek saying that translated pretty well into American.†
Chpt 17

Definition:

the Greek culture that provided much of the foundation of Western Civilization (from about 750 to 146 BC)