Over the centuries she spends on Aiaia, Circe interacts with many mythic figures. She uses the beginning of her exile to study and hone her witchcraft, tending gardens and experimenting with draughts. Remorseful, Circe confesses her deeds to Helios, who realizes all of his children with Perse are witches capable of extracting power from herbs and draughts.Īs punishment for admitting her witchcraft, Circe is banished by Zeus to eternal exile on the island of Aiaia. Circe's jealousy causes her to use the flowers' magic again, accidentally transforming Scylla into a bloodthirsty six-headed monster. Arrogant in his divinity, however, Glaucos rejects Circe in favor of the nymph Scylla.
Devastated by his mortality, Circe discovers a way to make him a god: she transforms him into his 'true form' using the sap of magical flowers, grown in soil that was once soaked with the blood of the titan Kronos. Deemed unattractive and powerless from birth, Circe's early life is lonely until she falls in love with the mortal fisherman Glaucos. The novel explores Circe's origin story and narrates Circe's encounters with mythological figures such as Hermes, the Minotaur, Jason, and Medea, and ultimately her romance with Odysseus and his son, Telemachus.Ĭirce is the divine daughter of the titan Helios and naiad Perse. Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths, most notably the Odyssey, as told from the perspective of the witch Circe.
Circe is a 2018 novel by American writer Madeline Miller.
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