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

Scylla is a recurrent character in Madeline Miller's (2018), Circe: a novel, New York: Little, Brown and Company.

Miller's Circe approaches the entire mythological history of Circe in a first-person narrative. Miller's fine specimen of mythological reception adapts the Circe myth so as to create a plausible narrative and psychological tissue to hold the various elements of her mythological character together.

Scylla is an important foil in Miller's psychological development of Circe. Although Scylla's character is limited in its self-representation within the novel, Circe's transformation of the girl into a monstrous marine bitch becomes (arguably) the most formative watershed in the life of the Titaness.

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.
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