Circe
Madeline Miller • 2018
Devastation Rating
Greek mythology women power isolation
Our Take
Miller gives Circe interiority that Homer denied her — the centuries of loneliness on Aeaea, the love affairs that cost her, the choice between the divine and the mortal. The witch who turned men to pigs is the one who was treated as livestock first. The ending earns its mortality.
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