In this post, I aim to identify a brief summary of the book Circe, by Madeline Miller, as well as an overall explanation of her as author. Circe, the daughter of the Sun God, Helios, and Perse, an Oceanid nymph, lacks the skills that her siblings acquire and is essentially shunned. She eventually falls in love with a mortal and she begins to experiment with witchcraft since she knows mortals die that but she will not. Throughout the book we find that Circe stands alone as a woman in a man’s world, finding herself in danger, drawing wrath from both men and gods, ultimately leading her to decide if she belongs with those that she was born from, the gods, or the mortals who she has come to love so fondly. http://madelinemiller.com/circe/ The author of this modern masterpiece, Madeline Miller, grew up in Manhattan. Miller eventually moved to Philadelphia where she met her Latin teacher who taught her Homeric Greek, and she became obsessed with the stories. This new found love for Greek literature lead her teacher to introduce her to the Illiad. The Iliad, along with Homer’s Odyssey; Ovid, Argonautica, and the Telegony formed her story Circe into what we know it as today. https://www.publicbooks.org/madeline-miller-on-circe-mythological-realism-and-literary-correctives/. Madeline selected pieces, themes, and ideas from each of these readings to formulate the story line, as well as incorporating the use of her imagination for character creation and analysis. Miller’s selections show that she has carefully cultivated ideas from these books, which normally portray Circe as conniving and responsible for death and misfortune, whereas her modern take depicts Circe as a woman who is aware of the hostility that she faces and that she is essentially a woman in a mans world. As a woman herself, I imagine instances like these have occurred in her life as well, which is likely why she places such an emphasis on creating the storyline in the way that she does. https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/madeline-millers-circe-reimagines-the-greek-goddess-as-a-women-aware-of-the-hostilities-she-faces/Content?oid=16127886
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