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Circe is Madeline Miller’s 2018 adaptation of the Greek legend of Circe, the witch whom Odysseus encounters in The Odyssey on his journey home from the Trojan War
. It is set in the Bronze Age where gods, heroes, and monsters populate the world and where women, even immortal ones, are often powerless. Circe is a complex heroine who struggles to find love, discover her own place in the world, and defy those who seek to oppress her.