Circe: New & Ancient Greek Tales

With new stories and an extended introduction, this collection focuses on the enchanting Circe of Greek mythology, featuring new perspectives on long-standing stereotypes.

Enchantress, goddess, witch, predatory seductress... Inevitably, Circe has been best-known in these terms, through the male gaze of Homer, Hesiod et al., as interpreted by readers and storytellers until today. Rarely does the classic literature give us a rounded view of a woman subject to the same flaws and emotions as any...