Drawing on only rudimentary knowledge of Greek myth-with the Ray Harryhausen movies Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans as my guides-and without having read Homer, I came to this with an open mind and on that basis, was enthralled by much of the novel, which is imaginatively and beautifully written.Ĭirce introduces herself as a nymph, an immortal maiden begat by Helios and a nymph named Perse.
My introduction to the fiction of Madeline Miller is Circe, her 2018 bestseller focusing on the witch of Aiaia, exiled daughter of the god of the sun who as a minor character in Homer's The Odyssey, turned Odysseus' crew to pigs but upon the hero's challenge, became his lover and provider of safe harbor.
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