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Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch

I’ve taught “The Odyssey” to college students for over a decade, including in a course on witches in Western culture. I suspect my students would immediately notice that the Circe in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a departure from the one who appears in Homer’s ancient poem.

The Conversation · Aug 6

The 10 Best Fantasy Books of the Last Decade

Thank the high fantasy heavens for these authors who got us through 2020.

The Mary Sue · Jun 18, 2025

Five books you'll like if you love The Odyssey

In The Odyssey, an almost 3,000-year-old epic attributed to a poet known as Homer, the soldier Odysseus narrates most adventures in retrospect. The poem, which tells of Odysseus’ return from the Trojan War, is both the origin of our concept of nostalgia (from the Greek nostos meaning the journey home)…

The Conversation · Aug 25, 2022