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Reid OGCMA, s.v. "Circe"
Miller Circe, on Scylla

Madeline Miller (2018), Circe: a novel, New York: Little, Brown and Company.

A New York Times #1 Bestseller, Miller's Circe approaches the entire mythological history of Circe in a first-person narrative. Her point-of-view observations on the primordial punishment of Prometheus allows Circe to shape a world where female jealousy and divine revenge are understandable and expressible. Classical mythology brings Scylla and Glaucus and Odysseus and Telemachus and even Penelope into Circe's influence. Miller provides the plausible narrative and psychological tissue to hold the various elements of her narrative together. The result is a highly readable novel of about 400 pages. It is a fine specimen of mythological reception.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.