Circe, daughter of Helios and Perse is a Greek goddess of magic who imprisoned Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey and in some versions a daughter of the goddess Hecate, but in the DC Universe she is an evil ...
You might remember Circe as the beautiful enchantress from The Odyssey, famed for turning men into pigs. Or perhaps you only know her as a vague figure from hazy Greek antiquity, or as the namesake of ...
An ancient wine vessel depicts the scene from Homer's Odyssey where Odysseus confronts Circe after she transforms his men into pigs. Metropolitan Museum of Art / (DMN file) Madeline Miller's ...
Early in the pages of “Circe,” the recent novelization of the Greek goddess’s life, Madeline Miller describes a meeting between the titular character and Prometheus. At the time, Circe is a young, ...
Where did the Greek myths take place? Where was Odysseus bewitched and seduced by Circe, the sorceress who turned men into pigs and made Odysseus her sex slave? It is not just a game for classical ...
Madeline Miller knows how to weave a story. More precisely, she knows how to pick well-worn strands from separate ancient Greek myths and twist them together into novels that feel simultaneously fresh ...