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  2. Circe (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Circe is a 2018 mythic fantasy novel by American writer Madeline Miller.Set during the Greek Heroic Age, it is an adaptation of various Greek myths, most notably the Odyssey, as told from the perspective of the witch Circe.

  3. Circe - Wikipedia

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    Circe (/ ˈ s ər s iː /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κίρκη, romanized: Kírkē) is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion. [2] In most accounts, Circe is described as the daughter of the sun god Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse. Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs.

  4. Circe (character) - Wikipedia

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    Circe is a fictional character appearing in DC Comics publications and related media. Based upon the eponymous Greek mythological figure who imprisoned Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey, she is a wicked sorceress and major recurring adversary of the superhero Wonder Woman.

  5. Telemachus - Wikipedia

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    The Telegony was a short two-book epic poem recounting the life and death of Odysseus after the events of the Odyssey. In this mythological postscript, Odysseus is accidentally killed by Telegonus, his unknown son by the goddess Circe. After Odysseus's death, Telemachus returns to Aeaea with Telegonus and Penelope, and there marries Circe.

  6. Odyssey (Emily Wilson translation) - Wikipedia

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    Emily Wilson was born in 1971 in Oxford, England to a family of scholars, [1] and is a professor of classics at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] Wilson completed her undergraduate degree in literae humaniores at the University of Oxford in 1994, a masters degree in English Renaissance literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1996, and a Ph.D. in classical and comparative literature ...

  7. 2010: Odyssey Two - Wikipedia

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    2010: Odyssey Two is a 1982 science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It is the sequel to his 1968 novel 2001: A Space Odyssey , though Clarke changed some elements of the story to align with the film version of 2001 .

  8. Aeaea - Wikipedia

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    (Homer, Odyssey, Book IX.32; trans. A.T. Murray; Loeb Classical Library 1919). In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus tells Alcinous that he stayed here for one year on his way home to Ithaca. Before leaving Aeaea, Odysseus was given instructions by Circe about how to cross the ocean [1] and assisted by the North Wind to reach the underworld:

  9. Odyssey (George Chapman translation) - Wikipedia

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    Chapman was the first celebrated translator, [2] and the first to complete a full translation of Homer's epic poem into English verse. [3] Chapman published a translation of the Seauen Books of the Iliades in 1598, and most of book 18 under the title Achilles Shield. The first 12 books were published together in 1609, with the full translation ...