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, ...

The first episode of Creature Commandos introduced the first new villain into the DCU, the immortal sorceress Circe. Based on the witch of the same name from Greek mythology, Circe has immense magical ...

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 ...

After ‘Oppenheimer’s astronomical success, Christopher Nolan is now setting his sights on a story that’s millennia old, ‘The Odyssey’. It’s a sweeping tale of gods, monsters, and the tortured return ...

"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, ...

Although they were written nearly three thousand years, ago sometime during the late 8th century, modern readers still reach for Homer's epic poems about the Trojan war and the heroes who fought in it ...

Imagine that Achilles, that legendary warrior, was in love with his second-in-command, Patroclus. But you don’t need to, since Madeline Miller’s “The Song of Achilles” (winner of the 2012 Orange Prize ...

Circe is remembered as one of the most powerful witches in Greek mythology. She appears in many old stories, often surrounded by mystery and magic. People know her for her ability to change men into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1983, Circe returned to the pages of Wonder Woman as a major villain. It was presumably the same Circe that plagued Superman ...