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‘Circe,’ he cried over the water between us. His voice rang the air like struck bronze. ‘My daughter came here.’
Madeline Miller • Circe: The International No. 1 Bestseller - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
Madeline Miller - Circe: Cast of Characters
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“Or, Miss Devonshire, is she Circe from Homer’s Odyssey?”
Patti Callahan • Once Upon a Wardrobe
An aunt stayed on hoping to curry favor with my mother and named me Hawk, Circe, for my yellow eyes, and the strange, thin sound of my crying.
Madeline Miller • CIRCE
The ending of Circe and her marriage to Telemachus is based on The Telegony. This is a lost epic poem that outlines the life of Telegonus, the son of Odysseus & Circe — who kills his father on a visit to Ithaca and returns to Circe’s Aeaea with Telemachus, who marries his father’s lover (Telegonus weds Odysseus’ widow, Penelope).
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Feared for her gift, she is banished to the island Aeaea; but rather than being a punishment, the independence and freedom Aeaea affords her allows Circe to grow into her own.
Feminism and Witchcraft: A Review of Circe by Madeline Miller
I thought of Scylla then. Did her nymph-self live still inside that six-headed monster? Or did plants grown from the blood of gods make the change a true one? I did not know. Into the air I said, Wherever you are, I hope you are finding your satisfaction. Which, of course, now I know she was.