As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep." Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime for poets. "I was not surprised by the portrait of myself," Circe says, "the proud witch undone before the hero's sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. But Odysseus, with the help of the god Hermes, tricks Circe and makes her beg for mercy before becoming her lover. Circe entraps his remaining men and turns them into pigs. Circe is referring to Homer's version of the story, in which Odysseus arrives on her island sea-battered and mourning for his men killed by the cruel Laestrygonians. "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. Your purchase helps support NPR programming.
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