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gigizetz · 6 months

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Circe with her braids undone, commission for @mageofheart-sombre

Thank you so much for commissioning me! :D

#digital art #art #epic the musical #greek myths #epic: the musical #circe fanart #circe #circe goddess #epic the circe saga #circe book #commissions

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lots-of-fandoms-ps-help-me · 1 year

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"The best part of him ..."

Odysseus speaking of Achilles after Patroclus' death.

Circe, Madeline Miller

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#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

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0lympians · 10 months

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i miss when i used to read books all the time. like spending 90% of my waking hours reading. i used to start a book one day, then finish it the next day. i miss that sm.

#they both die at the end #the song of achilles #good omens book #red white and royal blue #circe book #<- and tons of others obvi

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dangergggg · 8 months

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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

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hecates-corner · 5 months

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“Circe was such a boring book.”

Me, resting every quote on my tongue, holding the book to my chest, with my life absolutely and utterly changed: “Alright, sure, that’s your opinion, even if it is wrong.”

#circe #greek mythology #greek myth #author #mythology #madeline miller #circe madeline miller #circe goddess #circe book

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bacchaemember · 1 year

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The Odyssey as headlines!

art: (1)Head of Odysseus from a Roman period Hellenistic marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus (2) Penelope with the suitors by John William Waterhouse (1911/12) (3)Portrait of Don Lorenzo de Medici and Athena Cosimo Ulivelli (17th century) (4) Circe offering a cup to Odysseus by John William Waterhouse (1891) (5)Neptune and Amymone, 1757, Carle Vanloo (6)Odysseus returning home by John Flaxman (16th/17th century) (7)The return if Telemachus to Penelope by Antonio Zucchi (1726) (8) Illustrattions for Homer's Odyssey by Jan Styka a Polish painter (1901-1903) (9)Helen recognising Telemachus, son of Odysseus by Jean-Jaques Lagrenée (1795) (10)The Companions of Odysseus Steal the Cattle of Helios (fresco by Pellegrino Tibaldi, 1554/56)

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wuekka · 4 days

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Listening to "no longer you", fully knowing it's about war and all the hardships of the journey changing Odysseus and not being the same like that: "But he gets home and sees his son and wife and it alleviates the pain. c:"

Remembering Telegony where Odysseus leaves again and gets killed by his son with Circe, and Circe book where Odysseus was described devolving into a paranoid tyrant. "...it's gonna be fine. :)"

#epic the musical #random ramble #circe book

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the-atlas-sister · 9 months

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jamie-is-out-of-ideas · 6 months

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I’m so mad at my past self for completely misinterpreting and misunderstanding Circe because of YouTube comment sections 😔 the book Circe by Madeline Miller really fixed my view on her!!

#circe book #circe madeline miller #greek mythology #epic the musical

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sarafangirlart · 3 hours

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I’m kinda on the fence over wether or not Circe assaulted Odysseus, I mean she swore an oath to never do him harm so I’m not sure he only had sex with her so she wouldn’t turn him into a pig (tho I do remember her turning a guy into a bird bc he was loyal to his wife but I can’t find the source rn).

Tho I’m less interested in Circe and Odysseus specifically and more about the Pandora’s box of implications over wether ANY god/mortal relationship is actually consensual, like ppl argue that there is no way Odysseus had any real agency bc if he refused Circe would turn him into a pig but if that’s the case why not apply this to Cadmus and Harmonia? Apollo and Hyacinth? Eros and Psyche? Or even Minos and Pasiphaë? The gods in each of these relationships have infinitely more power than their mortal partners but I don’t really see anyone talking about these power imbalances.

I’m not trying to argue one way or the other I just wanna know ppl’s thoughts on this subject bc I think it’s very interesting.

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plantpages · 11 months

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6:15pm

#books #booklr #book photography #reading #circe book #mine #my photos

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gigizetz · 2 months

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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

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athamad · 5 months

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HEY IM BACK

Haven't posted here for a while cause l kind of forgot this account but l have been thinking about Medea and Jason and their play again and U G H I love them so l drew Medea because she's a more complex and realistic character than all the feminist retelling characters COMBINED

Speaking of feminist retellings, here's a rant:

I think the thing that ticks me off the most is that they always make the women good, they're not allowed to be bad at all.

Circe has a lot of potential to be good with Madeline's unique ideas but it goes down the drain when you need to make women always good to be 'feminist'

Circe does a lot of bad things but in the end feels bad and eventually wants a punishment for it and HEY DONT

Let Scylla be a monster, don't confess the power you discovered and just... Idk? PURSUE A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH GLAUCUS NOW THAT HES SINGLE????

What was even the point if she wasn't even going to even be with him? I'm not just saying this cause l ship them or anything (l don't) but you just make Circe make Scylla a monster for no reason

I know damn well that Madeline could have come up with a better reason for her 'exile' (she doesn't even get exiled to the island, she just goes there BTW) you could have been like "Oh no one wants to marry me cause I'm ugly or whateva l guess l want a passion other than a man so l will live in this island from now on and pursue my interest in sorcery"

Is what l just made up good? No, l don't think so, but do you know what it is? FEMINIST. ITS FEMINIST BECAUSE ITS CIRCES CHOICE. SHE NEEDS A HOBBY AND SOMETHING OTHER THAN HER FEELING BAD FOR HERSELF AND ALWAYS BEING DOIBTFULL OF HERSELF. I THOUGHT FEMINISM WAS EMPOWIRNG

Let a woman be bad, not all of them have to be saints. If you make them have flaws and toxic traits you make them realistic and relatable which makes them likable

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khutsydoh · 1 year

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one side-effect of reading the song of Achilles is that now whenever I encounter a patrochilles reference anywhere I have to go wild in my head

That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian's. I remember it from a lecture of his on the Iliad, when Patroklos appears to Achilles in a dream. There is a very moving passage where Achilles overjoyed at the sight of the apparition – tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The dead appear to us in dreams, said Julian, because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star…

~ The secret history

would I be like Achilles, wailing over his lost lover patroclus? I tried to picture myself running up and down the beaches, tearing at my hair, cradling some scrap of old tunic he had left behind. Crying out for the loss of half my soul.

~Circe

I hadn't witnessed such a tense greeting since Patroclus met Achilles's war prize, Briseis.

~The hidden oracle

#the song of achilles #patrochilles #tsoa #the secret history #the hidden oracle #circe book #are there more?

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booksaesthesic · 11 months

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-circe aesthetic-

#booklr #bookblr #book aesthetic #aesthetic #circe #circe book #circe madeline miller #madeline miller #greek mythology aesthetic #circe aesthetic #greek mythology #Spotify

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bacchaemember · 1 year

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John William Waterhouse

Time period: 1849- 1917

Born in: Rome, to British parents who were both painters, William and Isabella Waterhouse.

Education: London, Royal Academy of Art.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Style/ Era: Romantisism, pre-Raphaelite. (The Pre-Raphaelites were a secret society of young artists (and one writer), founded in London in 1848. They were opposed to the Royal Academy's promotion of the ideal as exemplified in the work of Raphael)

work: 118 paintings total

traits: rich, glowing colour. Like the Pre-Raphaelites, he depicted many dramatic, beautiful women—damsels in distress, enchantresses, or femmes fatales. (ie Ariadne, Circe)

art: as seen above (1) the lady of shalott 1888 (2) Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 (3) The magic circle 1886 (4)Circe Invidiosa 1892

John William Waterhouse above

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