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Circe: an Anthology
Paperback
Publisher Price: $21.00
ISBN13: 9781764837224
Publisher: Fauun
Published: Aug 30 2026
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.24 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Circe has bewitched storytellers for nearly three thousand years - sorceress, seductress, exile, and one of literature's earliest and most complex female powers. Circe: an Anthology brings together six essential works spanning ancient epic to Victorian verse, tracing how she was seen, feared, and reinvented across the centuries.
Inside this collection:
- Homer's Odyssey, Book X (trans. Samuel Butler) - the original account of Circe's island, her transformation of Odysseus's men into swine, and the year he stayed as her guest
- Ovid's Metamorphoses, Fables I and VI (trans. Henry T. Riley) - Circe's darker vengeance, turning rivals and enemies alike into monstrous forms
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's retelling from Tanglewood Tales - a gentler, more moralizing Circe for a 19th-century audience
- Two poems titled Circe by Lord de Tabley - atmospheric, decadent Victorian verse
- Augusta Webster's Circe - a striking dramatic monologue that gives the enchantress her own voice and interiority
Presented in a clean, readable paperback edition designed for a general audience rather than the academy, this anthology traces Circe's long literary shadow - from monster-maker to misunderstood woman - through the words of the writers who couldn't stop returning to her.
A Fauun edition: hand-typeset, thoughtfully presented, and designed as part of a collectable series.
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