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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
“Or, Miss Devonshire, is she Circe from Homer’s Odyssey?”
Patti Callahan • Once Upon a Wardrobe
Circe: The International No. 1 Bestseller - Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019
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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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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
Older, larger, and unpleasantly fleshy.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
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.