![]() ![]() She paints an uncompromising portrait of a superheroine who learns to wield divine power while coming to understand what it means to be mortal. Weaving together Homer’s tale with other sources, Miller crafts a classic story of female empowerment. ![]() Neither the goddess Athena nor the deadliest poison known to man makes Circe flinch. So, when the couple moves back to their old home in Alabama and he takes on an in. Welcome guests enjoy her hospitality unwelcome guests are turned into wild pigs. 'Circe', is about a man that would do anything to make his wife happy, even though he's still unable to stop cheating on her. By the time Odysseus’s ship arrives, winding its way home from the Trojan War, Circe reigns over a prosperous household. After returning from a visit to Crete to help her sister give birth to the Minotaur, Circe is joined on the island by errant nymphs sentenced to do their penance in her service. Now considered dangerous, Circe is exiled to an island, where she experiments with local flora and fauna. When he rejects her in favor of vain Scylla, Circe turns Scylla into a sea monster. She does not discover her gift for pharmakeia (the art of using herbs and spells) until she transforms her first love, a poor fisherman, into a god. Her narrative begins with a description of growing up the awkward daughter of Helios, the sun god. Miller follows her impressive debut ( The Song of Achilles) with a spirited novel about Circe’s evolution from insignificant nymph to formidable witch best known for turning Odysseus’s sailors into swine. ![]()
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