#circe madeline miller

[overthinksinbisexual]

love as violence

caitlin conlon, phantom pains // tina tran, out of the ruins // venetta octavia // iain thomas // yves olade, the miracle mile // sara manguso, love letter (clouds) // traci brimhall, come the slumberless to the land of nod // unknown // margaret atwood, power politics // madeline miller, circe // warsan shire // richard siken, planet of love // hozier, cherry wine

#doing another one of these because theyre fun and they always seem to go down well #and also this idea makes me slightly feral #words #quotes #web weaving #mine #love #love as violence #venetta octavia #yves olade #traci brimhall #margaret atwood #madeline miller #circe madeline miller #warsan shire #richard siken #hozier #cherry wine #caitlin conlon

[gigizetz]

I made the most impulsive book purchase after watching your Circe animatic and now am obsessed with Miller's interpretation of her story. I wonder do you have designs for Helios or any of Circe's siblings?

I do! They appear very briefly on this same animatic as more like a flash, so it's a bit hard to see

and Helios has his very own frame

#digital art #gigi's asks #art #greek myths #animatic #circe #circe book #circe madeline miller

[lots-of-fandoms-ps-help-me]

"The best part of him ..."

Odysseus speaking of Achilles after Patroclus' death.

Circe, Madeline Miller

Page 211

#the ghost show(me) #circe book #circe madeline miller #greek mythology circe #odysseus #achilles #patroclus #patrochilles #tsoa madeline miller #tsoa #the song of achilles #madeline miller

[odyssiaca]

one must sometimes spare a thought for circe. not the circe found in madeline miller's novel, but the one homer spoke about.

born to a powerful titan in the age of the olympians, a sister to thousands of siblings. yet never important enough to guard helios' cattle, never pretty enough to be married off to a human king of crete. never smart enough to stand beside her father. simply circe. young, unspecial, forgotten circe.

of how she saw kinship form for her siblings, and how strongly they loved. her mother forgotten by her father, simply another nymph, or the man she loved so dearly but who never glanced at her.

the rage that must have filled her veins when glaucus dared to appear before her and beg for a potion to trick a woman into loving him. how she loved him so purely, but was rejected and used. the regret that came when scylla no longer looked like herself, and how even then glaucus did not want her.

never good enough. replacable. easily cast out by her father, banished to an island where she will mother neither sons nor daughters, and constantly be forced to raise the daughters of gods who wanted sons.

will they become her daughters one day? will she go above and beyond to protect them as her own mother did not protect her?

what did she think, i wonder, when her niece appeared before her grasping a sword bearing the blood of her nephew? what could have possibly gone through her head when she saw the insincere look hidden within jason's eyes? i wonder if the gods told her how he scorned medea eventually, the same way glaucus did her.

and then he appears and he is everything she has ever wanted. but day and night he speaks of his wife, even as he lays in the warmth of her arms, in her silken sheets, hidden behind her wooden door held up by the walls of her home.

he sails away and that is that. another chapter. another empty nothingness.

one must spare a thought for the goddess waiting alone on the shores of a forgotten island amidst daughters she did not mother waiting for a destiny she will never find.

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #the odyssey #circe madeline miller #epic the circe saga #epic the musical #homer #the iliad #argonautica #jason and the argonauts #medea #i think about her a lot #how every man in her life spurned her #circe #you are everything to me circe

[lunavastro]

obsessed with media depicting all powerful immortal beings and the concept of Good vs Bad where the moral and main takeaway always, always, always, is how extraordinarily unique the human experience is. that humans cannot be judged on a scale of good and bad because we are constantly changing

nobody starts off on equal ground so they don’t know how to compare notes and figure out what the good thing to do is. and realizing that the Good thing is not always the right thing. we are the way we are because of this short mortality paired with free will and we don’t know what to do with it

#obsessed with how much humans actually love other humans #please please please let me let me let me #the good place #good omens #circe madeline miller #the midnight library #lucifer netflix #fleabag

[wastelandbabyvirgo]

you’re laughing at me. i’m telling about the complexities of odysseus and you’re laughing at me.

#greek mythology #the odyssey #odysseus #circe #circe madeline miller #pjo fandom #the iliad #homer #greek literature #books #bookshelf

[angelcat15]

ODYSSEUS + CIRCE because exited for the epic Circe saga and love the Madeline miller book

#digital art #fypツ #drawing #fyp #procreate #art #character design #odysseus #the odyssey #the illiad #circe #epic the circe saga #epic the musical #fanart #circe madeline miller #i love them

[luvrdotcom]

Some quotes I loved from "Circe" by Madeline Miller

“I did not pretend to be a mortal. I showed my lambent, yellow eyes at every turn. None of it made a difference. I was alone and a woman, that was all that mattered.”

“I had once told Daedalus that I would never marry, because my hands were dirty, and I liked my work too much. But this was a man with his own dirty hands.”

“Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveler, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”

“A dozen times grief had scorched, but its fire had never burned through my skin. My madness in those days rose from a new certainty: that at last, I had met the thing the gods could use against me.”

“Our faces are both lined now, marked with our years. I listen to his breath, warm upon the night air, and somehow I am conforted. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”

#circe #books #book quotes #madeline miller #literature #greek mythology #greek myth retellings #circe madeline miller #circe goddess #booktok #reading #poems #poetry #writing

[n03m1blog]

circe and achilles

#circe madeline miller #the song of achilles #madeline miller #circe #circe quotes #greek myths #greek mythology #patrochilles #achilles x patroclus #patroclus

[goldenpoison]

r.i.p. odysseus you would’ve loved google maps

#listen i know that this meme format is months old (i think) #and this has probably been said before #but i just thought it rn at 2am and i needed to share it #odysseus #the odyssey #homer #greek mythology #ancient greek literature #memeifying academia like my life depended on it #the iliad #circe #circe madeline miller

[torturedartist13]

Two things I really love about Madeline Miller's writing is how she 1) portrays a lot of the female figures from Greek mythology - especially those that appear as antagonists or obstacles in her stories - as sympathetic in some way, and 2) shows just how truly shitty Ancient Greek society was. The two examples that immediately come to mind for me are Pasiphaë and Deidameia.

Pasiphaë was manipulative and sadistic ever since she was a child, bullying Circe and eventually going on to make Minos' life as miserable as possible. It'd be easy for Miller to portray her as purely an asshole and nothing else, but she instead makes her somewhat sympathetic, or at least understandable. Pasiphaë bullied Circe alongside everyone else because it at least meant that she wasn't the one being bullied. As for Minos, Pasiphaë was married off to him without her consent and, since this is Ancient Greece, he has all the power in the marriage (he's also a literal king). Of course she'd exercise what little power she has (her magic) to make him just as miserable as she is. She can't stop him from sleeping with other women, for instance, but she can curse him to kill all the women he sleeps with.

Deidameia's section of the story felt especially strange to me when I was younger. Knowing what I know now about Ancient Greek society, however, how women were only seen as valuable because the men they were related to (sons, husbands, etc.), Deidameia's actions make much more sense. Lycomedes was a lowly king with little wealth, power, or prestige. If Deidameia was ever going to rise above her current station, marrying and having a child with Achilles would be the only way for her to do so.

I also like how Miller doesn't make any of these things too obvious, or use them to justify or excuse their behaviour. They merely add context to their actions, and, again, show just how shitty Ancient Greece could be.

#the song of achilles #tsoa #song of achilles #circe #circe madeline miller #madeline miller

[gigizetz]

I'm backkk

#animatic #animation #circe #circe book #circe madeline miller #circe fanart #circe goddess #digital art #art #youtube #Youtube

[dangergggg]

Started reading Circe by Madeline Miller recently and needed to let some creative juices flow.

#circe #circe madeline miller #circe goddess #greek mythology #circe book #just vibin honestly #read circe #madeline miller #song of achilles

[hunnylagoon]

Circe, how I love you

“Witches are not so delicate. Most men, in my experience, are fools.”

#circe #circe madeline miller #circe goddess #greek tumblr #greek mythology #greek gods

[artemistars]

circe/Madelin Miller

#greek tumblr #what i am reading #bookish #books #women #women writers #feminism #dark femenine #circe goddess #circe madeline miller

[letalis-psyche]

the unloved nymph (Circe Seeks Love)

Finally braving and posting some of my Graduation Project over here. This comic is based on a poem I wrote about Circe, my absolute favourite figure from Greek Mythology.

The comic shows glimpses of her story (Glaucus and Scylla, Odysseus, and one of her sons, Telegonus)

I have also made an animation for this project but im too shy to share it here. I know I've mostly been posting fanart so I don't want to flood with my nerd Greek Mythology content.

#circe #circe goddess #circe seeks love #classical mythology #greek myth #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #greek gods #odysseus #the odyssey #university project #comic #poem #circe madeline miller