If you look at Circe and Penelope in the Odyssey, Circe is the bad girl.
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Circe is in two books of the Odyssey, and I wanted Odysseus to be two chapters in Circe.
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Tucked away in a dimly lit gallery was the Circe vase, which showed Odysseus pursuing Circe with his sword drawn as his pigheaded men trail helplessly behind him.
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Circe, Calypso, and the goddess Athena all play important roles.
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The exhibition is based on exhibitions at the Frida Kahlo Museum (2012), curated by Circe Henestrosa; and the V&A London (2018), curated by Claire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa, with Gannit Ankori as curatorial advisor.
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Circe earns only a few dozen lines in the original Greek.
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It was about Circe and the men of Odysseus, and Odysseus.
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Madeline Miller's Circe is a spellbinding reimagining of the immortal witch's life.
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Circe in the Odyssey is this incarnation of anxiety about female power.
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"It's gotten really challenging," said Podladtchikov's agent, Circe Wallace, a former professional rider.
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While Circe is inspired by the Odyssey, this is no one's story but Circe's.
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Like its predecessor, Miller's new book, "Circe," illuminates known stories from a new perspective.
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It didn't even feel like a choice, because it was so obviously Circe to me.
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In this book, you gave Circe a story that isn't just confined to the Odyssey.
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Madeline Miller's Circe, out earlier this year, gives voice to the witch of The Odyssey.
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By the end of the novel, Circe and Thetis would have a lot to talk about.
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Since Circe lives forever, she ends up encountering so many figures who become legends in mythology.
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Drawn from Greek mythology, Circe is the story of the witch made famous in Homer's Odyssey.
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As punishment for practicing witchcraft, the nymph Circe is banished to eternity on the island Aiaia.
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One of those new original projects is an adaptation of Circe, Madeline Miller's take on The Odyssey.
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He comes waddling through with Circe, holding an orange that he carried all the way from Ethiopia.
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Both Circe the book and the character are quiet, sensual and — at times — freewheeling, adventurous, and devastating.
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What I'm discovering, as I'm starting to talk to people, is that Circe has a very bad reputation.
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Investigators identified 35-year-old Circe Baez as the bandit and arrested her Monday in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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I spoke to Miller about witches, solitude, and what makes Circe the most powerful character you've never heard of.
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But she was transformed back to life with the help of Circe (one of the pagans) on episode six.
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In Circe by Madeleine Miller, the events of The Odyssey are mere background to Circe's fabulous awakening as a witch.
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Of all the women in Homeric myth, and there are so many, why did you choose Circe to focus on?
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Madeline Miller's Circe is a spellbinding reimagining of the immortal witch's life, adding real dimension to her loss and longing.
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"We see Frida as the person, Frida the artist but also the woman," Circe Henestrosa, exhibition co-curator, told Reuters.
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Hamilton's son, Abush, was born in Ethiopia, and was adopted by Circe in August, 2011, when he was a toddler.
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Years later, Circe is tasked with promoting a remake of Amisa's big film and finds herself haunted by the past.
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The Greek witch-goddess Circe gave her son a magic weapon to protect him on his search for his father, Odysseus.
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It is also rumored to be the home of Circe, the sorceress who seduced Odysseus and turned his men into pigs.
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According to Miller's version, Circe is initially chiefly unhappy and immature, given to thoughtless lashing out that she lives to regret.
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Miller told NPR's Weekend Edition that she read about the character in high school and was disappointed with how Circe was depicted.
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It was Circe Wallace, not Podladtchikov, who said, "We've got one-percenters in snowboarding, and then everyone else fighting for amateur dollars."
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"Circe," by Madeline Miller, which I've just started and which in some ways seems like quite a good companion to the Barker.
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"Circe," a retelling of the story of the world's "first" divine witch, became one of Amazon's top-rated books of the year.
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Her second, Circe, out April 10, is narrated by the immortal witch most famous for turning Odysseus' men into pigs in the Odyssey.
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Alone, Circe is liberated from restrictions (gender norms exist among the gods, too) and can develop as both a witch and an individual.
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It's fitting that Circe is coming out not so many months after the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman was released.
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Her new novel, "Circe", views the "Odyssey" from the perspective of the goddess-witch upon whose enchanted island Odysseus stays for a year.
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The woman, identified by the FBI as Circe Baez, 35, is accused of robbing four banks across the East Coast since July 20.
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Circe Baez, 35, and a suspected accomplice, 38-year-old Alexis Morales, were arrested Sunday by investigators with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
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In Circe, the witch of the Odyssey (most famous for turning Odysseus' men into pigs) gets to go on an odyssey of her own.
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You'll find a spotlight pick (this month's is "Circe" by Madeline Miller) along with nine other books that Amazon's book editors loved this month.
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LaForge's artworks include depictions of Odysseus and the goddess Circe, who turned the hero's men into pigs, and Odysseus' confrontation with the cyclops Polyphemus.
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Ms. Miller was intrigued by Homer's description of Circe as "speaking like a human," an odd detail that is never fully explained in the Odyssey.
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Odysseus may have trouble getting home, but at least he gets to travel the world and have sex with beautiful women like Calypso and Circe.
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Purists may be less enchanted, bemused by Miller's sentimental leanings and her determination to make Circe into an ultimately likable, or at least forgivable, character.
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Or a picture of Bettie Page with two leopards next to a 19-century painting of Circe with two lions that echoes Page's exact pose.
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What the solitude allows is for Circe to be who she is without having her selfhood deformed by the expectation of her father, family, or society.
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"Circe as a character is the embodiment of male anxiety about female power," Ms. Miller said, as she studied the vase, snapping photos with her phone.
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Insider Tip: Circe's cave—Grotta della Maga Circe—can be found on the western side of the island, between Capo Bianco and Chaia di Luna beach.
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Miller, writing once again in the first person ("The Song of Achilles" was narrated by Patroclus), gives voice to Circe as a multifaceted and evolving character.
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She depicts Circe as the nymph-child of the sun god Helios; then as she meets and falls in love with Odysseus; and after he abandons her.
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That focus explains the investment in shows such as "Circe," a "Gremlins" animated series and a reboot of "Gossip Girl" that will appeal to the under-40 crowd.
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She was teased at school for her withered leg and limp, said Circe Henestrosa, co-curator of the exhibition, and her dress became a way to conceal it.
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In the bestselling novel "Circe" — optioned by WarnerMedia for its forthcoming HBO Max streaming service — the daughter of the Greek god Helios tames wild beasts and menaces the gods.
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A woman on her own, Circe is forced to choose whether her loyalties lie with god or man, and what she's willing to do to protect those she loves.
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Circe Baez, 35, and a suspected accomplice, 38-year-old Alexis Morales, were arrested Sunday by investigators with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, the FBI said in a statement.
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The week before Labor Day, 2016, Circe Hamilton, a freelance photographer in her mid-forties, was preparing to move back to the U.K., after twenty years in New York.
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In the case of Circe Hamilton and Kelly Gunn, it was Hamilton who first instigated the adoption, and Hamilton who continued to pursue it after she and Gunn separated.
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And in the spring of 2018, Madeline Miller released "Circe," a novel written from the enchantress's perspective that expands her story both before and after her affair with Odysseus.
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She plucked other details from the Argonautica, an epic poem about the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, which describes how Circe performs a purification ritual for Jason and Medea.
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"This Little Piggy" With Wonder Woman at the mercy of the Greek goddess Circe, Batman can only save her by revealing a carefully held secret: that — spoilers — he can sing.
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When Circe is born to Helios, god of the sun, it's immediately clear that she's not like her powerful, dangerous parents — so she joins the mortal world in search of companionship.
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Odysseus is dead and Circe, Penelope and their sons, Telegonus and Telemachus, seek to fashion a new world with its own notion of heroism, embracing mortality instead of reaching for divinity.
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It's a feminist retelling of Homer's epic poem, told through the eyes of Circe, the sorceress who Odysseus encounters on his way home from Troy, who turns his crew into pigs.
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In the house of Helios, Circe is born as an outcast among her family of gods, seemingly without their powers — until she discovers, through her anger, that she is a witch.
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After she turns a nymph, Scylla, into a six-headed sea monster, Helios banishes Circe to a remote island where she spends centuries in exile, with wolves and lions as her companions.
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Others will recall that Circe — Medea's aunt, the sister of her father, Aeetes — cleansed Medea and Jason of their crimes, as they fled Colchis with the Golden Fleece and murdered Medea's brother.
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After exhibiting her skills as a witch, the sly, brilliant, and devastatingly under-appreciated Circe is banished from her father's kingdom, where nymphs frolicked and gods dined ad infinitum, to the island Aiaia.
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"Circe" — a feminist reboot starring a goddess who has often been overlooked, or miscast as a vindictive seductress — has drawn praise both from classics scholars and novelists like Margaret George and Ann Patchett.
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What's it like to be part of a community that's defined by the power of a goddess, as he is when he's on the island of Calypso or on the island of Circe?
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She is Circe Henestrosa, who curated the exhibition at the Frida Kahlo Museum in 2012 and co-organized the show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2018 with Claire Wilcox and Gannit Ankori.
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Ms. Miller's fascination with Circe became an obsession after she published her 2011 debut novel, "The Song of Achilles," a retelling of the Iliad that centers on a romance between Achilles and his friend Patroclus.
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Just as Madeline Miller turned the witch of The Odyssey into a protagonist in Circe, the feminist movement reincarnated Lilith as a figure of empowerment (and as the namesake of an all-female music festival).
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Martin has used mythological references before (the name Cersei is a play on mythological sorceress "Circe," for instance), and it wouldn't be out of character for the show's creators to go into this level of detail.
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In addition to brushing paths with some of mythology's most famous figures, from Hermes to Medea, Circe gives shelter to Odysseus for a year — and her narration challenges and complements the conventional take on The Odyssey.
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She found scattered references to Circe across the ancient world, and drew from the plot of the Telegony, an epic preserved only in a short summary, which tells the story of Telegonus, Odysseus and Circe's son.
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She was eager to see a particular artifact — a 2,500-year-old wine vessel painted with a scene from Homer's Odyssey, as Odysseus confronts the goddess and sorceress Circe after she transforms his men into pigs.
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It is in this first literary record that the famed poet tells of how Circe, the goddess of magic, cautions Odysseus and his crew about the Sirens who inhabit a small island near Scylla and Charybdis.
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Though the daughter of Helios, god of the sun, Circe is banished to a desert island by Zeus, there she bonds with mortals, interacts with legendary figures (Madea, the Minotaur, and more), and sharpens her witch powers.
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A version of it first appeared at the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City in 2200, curated by Circe Henestrosa, who also helped curate an expanded iteration at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2718.
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But the Odyssey is also about other people: Penelope, the nymph Calypso, the witch Circe, the princess Nausicaa; Odysseus's many shipmates who died before they could make it home; the countless slaves in Odysseus's house, many of whom are never named.
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So in the courtroom in Manhattan, Circe Hamilton, 44, and her former partner Kelly Gunn, 52, are battling over whether Ms. Gunn should be recognized as a parent to the boy, Abush, whom Ms. Hamilton adopted from Ethiopia in 2011.
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In all of these stories, Circe is at once important and liminal, just as she is a figure of uncertain powers, a minor immortal, the daughter of Helios, god of the sun and a Titan, and Perse, a lowly naiad.
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She wove some of the mythology into her narrative, and ignored other depictions that struck her as silly or sexist, deliberately omitting a scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses where Circe punishes a king who spurns her advances by turning him into a woodpecker.
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We could wax elequent about the impact a game like this has for the viability of room-scale VR—but we'll cut ourselves off there, and let you simply enjoy the show: And here's more footage of Circe of Saviors in action.
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It's a story of loss and longing — Circe is an outcast among the gods for her inability to match their ruthlessness; she is betrayed by the mortals she trusts; and even when she discovers her immense powers, those powers often serve to alienate her further.
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Now 693 years old—nearly a half-century after his release—Humphrey has come full circe, outing himself with his popular "Life of an Inmate" tour that gives Shawshank aficionados and other visitors an unflinching look at Mansfield incarceration from someone who lived it.
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Ini Archibong, a Nigerian-American designer living in Switzerland, introduced his Below the Heavens collection for the British company Sé. The Circe lounge chair, shown with the designer at Rossana Orlandi's gallery, exemplifies the fat white pillowy seating found throughout the fair (from $4,13).
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HBO Max is slated to get every episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Friends, and Pretty Little Liars, as well as new shows like an adaptation of Madeline Miller's Circe and a companion show to Denis Villeneuve's forthcoming adaptation of Dune, Dune: The Sisterhood.
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We are living in an age of great cultural interest in ancient myths, including TV dramas ("Troy: Fall of a City"), literary retellings (Neil Gaiman's compelling "Norse Mythology"), novels that reinvent myth in a modern context (Kamila Shamsie's brilliant "Home Fire") and novels set in the classical past (Madeline Miller's moving "Circe").
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In spite of these occasional infelicities and awkwardnesses, "Circe" will surely delight readers new to the witch's stories as it will many who remember her role in the Greek myths of their childhood: Like a good children's book, it engrosses and races along at a clip, eliciting excitement and emotion along the way.
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Long after her sole role playing a flesh-eating ghost in a '70s B-horror film franchise, Amisa Tan's intimidating beauty remains — much to the chagrin of her awkward teenage daughter, Szu, who's just trying to survive high school in suburban Singapore, where she finally succeeds in making one formative (if fraught) bond with her classmate Circe.
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Ms. Miller was riveted and horrified by that scene when she first read the Odyssey, and it became a pivotal moment in her new novel, "Circe," a bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story that manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope, recasting the most infamous female figure from the Odyssey as a hero in her own right.
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And, if it's true that Gunn never retreated from the adoption—and that "the only one who broke any sort of plan was Circe," as Chemtob put it to me—it's confusing that Gunn approved an e-mail, sent to her company's staff and clients in September, 2011, that welcomed Hamilton's baby to their community but did not mention Gunn.
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"During her lifetime she was sometimes viewed as 'exotic' or patronized and 'othered' but today her intersectional, and complex, self-constructed identity is better understood," says Circe Henestrosa, the co-curator of the V&A exhibition Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up. Henestrosa has a personal link as the great-niece of Andrés Henestrosa, the celebrated Mexican writer who was a close friend of Kahlo.
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" Eventually, Circe will bear a child by Odysseus, a boy named Telegonus (although some versions of the myth have her bearing several boys); and Miller grants her, at this juncture, a profoundly human complex of emotions, from despair at the infant's constant screaming to a profound and unconditional maternal ardor: "When he finally slept … a love so sharp it seemed my flesh lay open.
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A galley of Lee Child's upcoming "Past Tense"; "The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic," by Benjamin Carter Hett; "The Lost Life of Eva Braun," by Angela Lambert; "Circe," by Madeline Miller; "So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know," by Retta; "Less," by Andrew Sean Greer; "Atticus Finch: The Biography," by Joseph Crespino.
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"Circe" is very pleasurable to read, combining lively versions of familiar tales (like the birth of the Minotaur or the arrival of Odysseus and his men on Circe's island) and snippets of other, related standards (a glance at Daedalus and Icarus; a nod to the ultimate fate of Medea after she and Jason leave Aiaia) with a highly psychologized, redemptive and ultimately exculpatory account of the protagonist herself.
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The reader doesn't even see Odysseus until the fifth of the poem's 24 books, where we learn that he has been living on an island with Calypso, a goddess, for seven years; that, earlier, he was detained by another goddess, Circe, with whom he also shared a bed; that the Sirens, as he navigates, call to him, desiring him; that a young princess falls in love with him; that, on all sides, women are temptresses, and whereas he submits, we are to understand that Penelope, alone, assailed, remains faithful.
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Idiosyncrasies in the prose reflect this uneasy mixture: Circe sometimes speaks with syntactic inversions that recall Victorian translations from Greek ("frail she was, but crafty, with a mind like a spike-toothed eel"; "a year of peaceful days he had stayed with me"; "young he was, but not a fool"), and at other moments, in a surprising contemporary vernacular ("Meanwhile every petty and useless god would go on sucking down the bright air until the stars went dark") occasionally punctuated by overly familiar phrases (that laugh, above, "bright as morning sun"; or this odd deployment of cliché: "My blood ran cold to see his greenness").
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