![]() ![]() Circe’s tale specifically has been retold many times. ![]() Many authors and poets have reexamined these stories, such has Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem Ulysses, Margaret Atwood in The Penelopiad, and Rick Riordan in his young adult series Percy Jackson & the Olympians. Miller is not alone in retelling the well-known myths of Ancient Greece. Miller’s novel The Song of Achilles is written in a similar way in The Song of Achilles, Patroclus is the main character, although he is just a character at the margins of Homer’s Illiad. In her novel Circe, Miller flips the script, making Circe the main character and giving Odysseus, Jason, and Telegonus cameos in the same way that she is only a secondary character in their stories. Circe shows up in all of these stories but is not the central character. Argonautica and Telegony focus on Jason and Telegonus respectively. Metamorphoses is a compilation of many myths and features the story where Circe turns Scylla into a monster. Homer’s Odyssey, which is about Odysseus’s journey home from the Trojan War, includes an encounter between him and Circe, during which she turns his men into pigs. ![]() Miller draws from many of the plot points from ancient myths and texts, particularly Homer’s Odyssey, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, and Telegony, a now-lost epic believed to have been written by Eugammon. ![]()
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