The Lost Hero Themes

The Lost Hero is about heroes, and heroes are about courage. In fact, the plot is basically organized so that each of the main characters gets to prove their bravery—Leo by overcoming his childho...

In Greek mythology, families are a mess: Oedipus sleeps with his mother and kills his father; Cronus eats his children and Medea kills hers; and Hera threw her son away because he was too ugly. Gen...

Do you choose your destiny or does your destiny choose you? The Lost Hero often seems uncertain. On the one hand, Rachel the oracle gives forth prophecies, all the characters have magical dreams, a...

Friendship is very important to the characters in The Lost Hero, with Leo, Piper, and Jason constantly relying on each other and working together. But friendship is also important for the quest. He...

Greek mythology doesn't necessarily care that much about good and evil, and the gods go back and forth between behaving and misbehaving all the time. Zeus raped women (see the story of Leda and the...

Piper, Leo, and Jason all discover their identities in The Lost Hero. They learn, first of all, that they're the children of gods. But more than that, they learn their place in the story. Jason is...

As you may have read elsewhere in this learning guide, The Lost Hero is in many ways a superhero story. And superhero stories are all about cool powers and abilities—strengths and skills, in oth...

In The Lost Heroes, a magic Mist makes normal mortals see normal things, never noticing all the demigods and gods and giants and fauns climbing in the flowerbeds and knocking buildings over and so...