Weekend Edition's books editor, Barrie Hardymon, asks Madeline Miller about her latest book, Circe. It's a modern take on the mythological temptress. Author Madeline Miller first encountered Circe, ...

"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 story, ...

On a cold, sunny afternoon in March, novelist Madeline Miller wandered through the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, swooning over ancient amphoras and ethereal statues of ...

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 ...

Maybe you learned some mythology in history class or while taking Latin. Circe is a name that might sound familiar, but that’s about it. Along comes Madeline Miller and her new novel, “Circe,” and all ...

You might remember Circe as the beautiful enchantress from The Odyssey, famed for turning men into pigs. Or perhaps you only know her as a vague figure from hazy Greek antiquity, or as the namesake of ...

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 ...

Circe, daughter of Helios and Perse is a Greek goddess of magic who imprisoned Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey and in some versions a daughter of the goddess Hecate, but in the DC Universe she is an evil ...