A deep reading of Circe in Homer’s Odyssey reveals a powerful alternative order of female sovereignty, where knowledge, ...

The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. What should have been a simple return became a decade of trials shaped by gods monsters and human mistakes.

On a cold, sunny afternoon in March, novelist Madeline Miller wandered through the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, swooning over ancient amphoras and ethereal statues of ...

Odysseus is a liar. There is no question about it in classical literature, that Homer’s archetypal hero is a fork-ongued liar. Sometimes he lies to save his own skin, other times he uses lies as a ...

Mahatma Gandhi (right) and M.A. Jinnah in Bombay, September 1944. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In his classic 1965 book, Nirad Chaudhuri called India “The Continent of Circe.” (In Greek mythology, Circe ...