This might be my final reread review. I'm not sure yet. I wanted to do this one, because this is the last random international cover I was able to find.
I covered a lot in my original review of this book and I stick with my headcanon for the Isis/Hathor issue. I still think they swapped places.
A few things have jumped out at me on this reread that I didn't nitpick about before and my Classicist/Egyptologist self needs to note them this time.
A time period for this series is basically impossible to establish. The Trojan War has just taken place. So that's possibly around the 12th Century BCE. In this book, Aphrodite mentions the statue of Zeus at Olympia, which was recently finished. That was around 435 BCE. She also mentions the Seven Wonders of the World, which weren't even starting to be mentioned until the 2nd or 1st Century BCE. So yeah, time is impossible to establish, because there is no single time frame for this series. It just melds everything.
However, I still raised my eyebrows at the declaration of Cairo as Egypt's capital. Cairo wasn't even founded until 969 CE. (Or 969 AD if you use the BC/AD system.)
Athena says "hieroglyphics." Sigh.
Athena hands out translation rings that she had Hephaestus make. They'll help "decode Arabic languages." The correct term for that should be Semitic languages. And what the ancient Egyptians spoke was certainly not one of them! Both the ancient Egyptian languages and the Semitic languages fall under the larger heading of Afro-Asiatic languages. So yeah, what was spoken in ancient Egypt is very different from Arabic.
I finished rereading this one a few days ago, but was too busy to get to finish writing this. I didn't notice any other nitpicks aside from the ones I mentioned above. I do still enjoy the book, but I wish the Egyptian side of things had been handled better.
I've also finished rereading 7 and 8 and I have no further comments on those, so this may indeed be my last one of these, as I just reread the remaining books without reviews. Until I get to Eos and Clotho that is! Those are the two newest ones that I haven't read yet.
