The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo, #1)

by Rick Riordan

I had spent too many centuries watching the same patterns of behavior be repeated over and over, all by humans who thought they were being terribly clever and doing something that had never been done before. They thought they were crafting their own stories, but they were only tracing over the same old narratives, generation after generation.

“Man, why does it not surprise me that modern corporations are run by zombie Roman emperors?”