Delighted to help, Circe offers them food and lodging. After dinner, however, Circe notices a shift in their mood when they discover that there is no man on the island. She adds a potion to their wine out of caution. After drinking the wine, one of the men chokes her and rapes her. Circe feels broken. More boats come, and she turns the men from the ships into pigs. One day, another such ship comes, and Circe turns the men into pigs as usual. But then a man knocks at her door; he had waited behind the rest of the crew.
Circe is intrigued by him and agrees to turn his men back into humans after she and Odysseus have sex. Circe falls in love with Odysseus, who tells her stories of the Trojan war and explains that Athena is his patron. He stays longer than originally planned, but he eventually leaves to return to Ithaca, where his wife, Penelope , still waits for his return. Circe discovers that she is pregnant. She is sick throughout her pregnancy, and her labor is painful. After her son Telegonus is born, she realizes that someone is trying to kill him.
Athena appears, demanding that Circe hand over Telegonus. But Circe refuses. She creates a protective spell that covers the island and keeps Athena out. Telegonus grows up to be an adventurous boy. One day, he reveals to Circe that he has made a boat with the help of Hermes, who has been secretly visiting him. Telegonus intends to sail to Ithaca to meet Odysseus. Panicked, Circe refuses at first, but eventually relents out of love for her son.
To protect him, she visits Trygon , an ancient stingray with a poisonous tail. After she tells Trygon that she would suffer the poison herself to get the tail, he offers it to her willingly, without her suffering. Telegonus leaves and is gone for several days. When he returns, he is in despair; when Odysseus saw him, he attacked Telegonus and accidentally killed himself on the spear.
Circe is suspicious of them, as she fears that they will try to kill Telegonus. But Telemachus tells Circe that he has no intention of avenging his father. He tells her that Odysseus had become a violent and paranoid man after his return. After being sharply interrogated by Circe, Penelope confesses that she is trying to protect Telemachus from Athena, who wants to send him on a quest.
Circe agrees to host them for the winter. One day, Hermes visits Aiaia to inform them that Athena requests that Circe lower the protective defenses so that she can speak to Telemachus of his quest. Upon hearing that Athena has also sworn not to harm Telegonus, Circe relents. Athena appears and tells Telemachus that he is to go west to help found a new empire.
When he declines, she offers the same quest to Telegonus, who eagerly agrees. Circe is heartbroken, but she knows that he will never be happy until he explores the world. Blisteringly modern. Deft and compassionate.
A compelling and engagingly feminist piece of ancient fantasy. But Circe is also a brilliantly strange work of mythic science fiction, as effortlessly expressive within the palaces of gods as it is about the world below. This is both a fabulous novel and a fascinating retelling; the best compliment, perhaps, that any myth could hope for. Just wait. The ancient stories and characters are reshaped by truths that modern women can finally speak about sisterhood and sexism, rape and rage, and most exquisitely, motherhood.
Miller has created a daring feminist take on a classic narrative; although the setting is a mystical world of gods, monsters, and nymphs, the protagonist at its heart is like any of us.
A free woman, the author seems to be saying, must be willing to forsake the trappings of birthright and rank in order to claim her destiny, whether thousands of years ago or today.
Miller, with her academic bona fides and born instinct for storytelling, seamlessly grafts modern concepts of selfhood and independence to her mystical reveries of smoke and silver, nectar and bones. Circe is, instead, a romp, an airy delight, a novel to be gobbled greedily in a single sitting. Miller weaves powerful imagery and emotion into a rich tapestry, depicting the agonies and ecstasies of the mighty forces and figures of the classical world.
Through her elegant, psychologically acute prose, Miller gives us a rich female character who inhabits the spaces in between.
Circe is also a smart read that has much to say about the long-term consequences of war and a culture that values violence and conquest over compassion and learning.
She paints an uncompromising portrait of a superheroine who learns to wield divine power while coming to understand what it means to be mortal. This immersive blend of literary fiction and mythological fantasy demonstrates that the Greek myths are still very relevant today. Readers will relish following the puzzle of this unpromising daughter of the sun god Helios and his wife, Perse, who had negligible use for their child. The main characters of this fantasy, fiction story are Jason Argonaut , Theseus mythology.
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