would drive its seekers into insanity unless proper rituals are conducted. Regardless of his antagonism to Apollo due to his predicament, he asks his father to destroy the Oracle and himself, so Commodus would not be able to access it again. Pasiphaë – A Greek sorceress and daughter of Helios who appears in The House of Hades. She is resentful of the gods for punishing her by giving birth to Minotaur, while her husband, Minos, who caused the problem in the first place, enjoys the right as a judge in the Underworld for being Zeus' son. She is allied with the giants, restored the Labyrinth and enters into a battle of sorcery with Hazel who manages to drop her through a trapdoor into a bottomless pit using magic. Phineus/Phineas – A blind seer who appears in The Son of Neptune. Percy Jackson finds him in Portland where the Harpies are trying to steal his food. Before he dies from Gaea making him choose the poisoned gorgon's blood from the offer Percy gave him, he reveals to Percy the location of Alcyoneus' camp. In The House of Hades, Percy experiences a curse laid upon him by Phineas' death while in Tartarus. Procrustes/Crusty – The son of Poseidon who is depicted as a half-giant and rogue thief and blacksmith who was previously defeated by Theseus. Procrustes appears in The Lightning Thief as "Crusty", a Los Angeles mattress store owner. He traps Annabeth and Grover on his beds and tries to stretch their spine. Percy traps him using Procrustes' own stretching equipment and then decapitates him with Riptide. Sciron – A thief and son of Poseidon. He had previously fought Theseus in the past. In The House of Hades, Sciron and his giant turtle waylaid the Argo II on the coast of Croatia. Like his fight with Theseus, Hazel defeated Sciron by pushing him off of the cliff where he was gobbled by the Giant Sea Turtle. Suitors of Penelope – Men who competed to become the next wife to Penelope when they believed that she became a widow when Odysseus was fighting in the Trojan War. When Odysseus returned, his disguised appearance spoke to Penelope to hold a contest where the Suitor that can string Odysseus' bow will become her new wife. When Odysseus won the contest, he sheds his disguise and kills the Suitors with the help of Telemachus and Philoeteus.