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An ancient wine vessel depicts the scene from Homer's Odyssey where Odysseus confronts Circe after she transforms his men into pigs. (Metropolitan Museum of Art / (DMN file)) Madeline Miller's re ...

Madeline Miller, author of our December pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Circe,” and Jeff announces the January ...

But there is more to Circe than punishing men with potions and porcine charms. She is, after all, the very first witch in Western Literature. And now, at long last, Madeline Miller has woven her ...

For readers who enjoyed “A Song Achilles,” there’s much to relish in Madeline Miller’s second novel, a retelling, in part, of “The Odyssey” from Circe’s perspective. The feisty and ...

Circe’s previous fame derived from her appearance ... I have not made those calculations, but it feels right.” Madeline Miller will appear at 2 p.m. April 22 at the Festival of Books on ...

That is one of the reasons why author Madeline Miller decided to retell these classic tales in her own two outstanding novels, The Song of Achilles and Circe: To give a voice to the women in the ...

With an origin story spanning thousands of years, Circe, Greek goddess of witchcraft, evolves from the unwanted and bullied daughter of Helios, Titan god of the sun, to a powerful and driven sorceress ...

"Later, years later, I would hear a song made of our meeting," says the hero of Madeleine Miller's Circe, of her romance with the mortal Odysseus. Circe is referring to Homer's version of the ...