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 ...

A deep reading of Circe in Homer’s Odyssey reveals a powerful alternative order of female sovereignty, where knowledge, hospitality and transformation challenge the foundations of heroic masculinity.

Circe, the powerful sorceress, was played by Sydney Fulcher. Fulcher showed a range of emotions with this character, from being all nervous and shy during an interview with a reporter — which might ...