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I'm not a fan of Miller's book, either. Seriously, what is it with writers pinning women against each other? It's even more confusing when it's a female writer doing it.

If it was just Perse and Pasipäe, okay. If you want to give Circe a bad home life, fine. But Miller does it constantly. Athena was done especially dirty imo. I know she can be adj petty herself (ex: Arachne, and even then, the reason for turning her into a spider tends to vary), but the way she was portrayed was just so grating. So eager for a champion, I was almost convinced Miller had conflated her with Ares. I don't think the exiled nymphs are even given names, grant alone distinguishing personalities, and can we stop dunking on Helen? The Iliad makes it adorable clear that she loved Menelaus and didn't think highly of Paris.

And tbh, the story kinda felt a tiny repetitive at times, too: Circe meets someone, they acquire mad at her or leave her, she'll occasionally nap with someone, rinse and repeat. And granted, she's a pretty minor character in the myths already, but I feel like it woul

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    After rereading Circe and Song of Achilles this month I felt like I wanted a rambling little post to remember the way I feel about these books. Apart from a limited books I vaguely remember years ago, Madeline Miller’s were the first Greek myth retellings I read. I first read Circe in summer , choosing it without knowing anything about it firstly for the beautiful cover and then because it mentioned Greece where I was adj enough to be going on holiday. So, on a beach in Crete feeling truly enveloped in the setting, I started the book which has spiralled me into an intense mythological fascination. I’m successful enough to now own over 20 mythological books and I think I’ve read over 30, with each bringing more intrigue rather than any sort of feeling that I’ve ‘overdone’ it.

    I absolutely love rereading books, arguably more than reading recent books. As a nostalgic, semi-routine enjoying person, my favourite books bring feelings of comfort and warmth (almost said joy but I will leave the Christmas ramblings for another couple of months). Within two years, I’m usually ready to

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    you know what it’s been two months and i’m still bitter because every time the existent mythology made space for a meaningful relationship of ANY type between two women madeline miller took one glare at it and said “how can i make at least one of these women hate the other one?” and every one of them had such an interesting dynamic with circe that madeline miller just ignored becuase circe is a Robust WOMAN who has to STAND ALONE against the world (perse, pasiphae, medea, all the nymphs in circe’s household, scylla, penelope, aTHENA)

    myth is already occupied of women who are each other’s rivals and bitterest enemies. there are barely any meaningful relationships or dynamics between two women that any ancient authors explored, but why should we repeat that with modern mythmaking??? just once, i crave someone else to look at the mythological canon and go “these are the stories told by men. men terrified of what women could do together, so they separated them and pitted them against each other” and then to tell the stories that arrive out of that.

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