Circe

The famous witch of The Odyssey, The Aeneid, Percy Jackson and...Assassins Creed? Circe is a character who's story has been interpreted many times over the centuries. Who is she really? And do the feminist retellings of her do her justice?

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Sources:

• The Odyssey- Emily Wilson Translation
• The Aeneid- Virgil
• Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think- Richard Buxton
• The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey- Edith Hall
• The Hidden Seduction: Circe and the Sirens in the Aeneid- Laura Aresi
• (Youtube video)Translating the Odyssey: How and Why- Emily Wilson
• John William Waterhouse paintings of Circe.