The Battle of the Labyrinth camp for the school year. On his fifteenth birthday at the summer's end, Percy receives a visit from his father Poseidon, who gives him a sand dollar, admonishing him to “spend it wisely”. Nico later appears to tell Percy his plan to defeat Luke once and for all. "The Battle of the Labyrinth" was initially referred to as "Percy 4" until the title was officially revealed. The novel was teased by Rick Riordan behind the pages of its predecessor, "The Titan's Curse". It was based on the Greek myth of the labyrinth, where the Minotaur was supposedly kept. In his
Daedalus in Crete Daedalus in Crete Daedalus in Crete ("Δαίδαλος στην Κρήτη") is a play by the Greek lyric poet and playwright Angelos Sikelianos entirely written and published at the journal Nea Estia (written in 1942 and published in 1943, which makes it the second tragedy of Sikelianos given to the public, as its publication precedes “Sibylla” which may have been written earlier but was published at the end of the Occupation), during the Axis occupation of Greece. This event may be linked to the planned and announced project - not completed - on behalf of Sikelianos, to write the tragedies "Daedalus in