• S1 E4: Can Witches Have Odysseys? The Case of Circe according to Homer and Madeline Miller

  • Feb 7 2025
  • Durée: 47 min
  • Podcast

S1 E4: Can Witches Have Odysseys? The Case of Circe according to Homer and Madeline Miller

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  • Sonja and Vanessa visit Circe’s Island, both in the Odyssey and in Madeline Miller’s brilliant novel. For those keeping score: time with Calypso + Circe = 80% of Odysseus’s 10-year trip home is on Love Islands with gorgeous, immortal women. Vanessa quizzes Sonja on ancient Greek witchcraft and why women keep giving grown men baths, and Sonja, as always, knows a thing or two. Spoiler Alerts for Madeline Miller’s Circe!

    Works referenced:
    Circe by Madeline Miller

    “Bias, She Wrote: The Gender Bias of the New York Times Bestseller List,” by Rosie Cima

    “Patterns of Persecutions: ‘Witchcraft’ Trials in Ancient Athens,” by Esther Eidinow

    Theogony by Hesiod

    “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” by Joan Scott
    “Circe’s Etruscan Pharmaka: Reconsidering a Fragment of Aeschylean Elegy,” by Jessica Lightfoot


    The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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