Circe

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Circe

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American Madeleine Miller, a classical philologist and Shakespeare scholar, became known to readers all over the world thanks to her debut novel, The Song of Achilles. "Circe" is also rooted in the Homeric epic and just as captivating as an unexpected reconstruction of personal history within the myth. The daughter of the titan Helios, the sun itself, Circe grows up alone and unloved in her father's halls. Divine power is inaccessible to her, but when her incomprehensible and dangerous gift makes itself felt, the gods and titans send the newly-minted sorceress into exile on a desert island. Only occasionally does the outside world break into its lonely eternity, until the ship of Odysseus, battered by storms, comes ashore. And not all the consequences of this meeting are destined to remain in legends ...

Barcode: 9785171115814 SKU: 70147752 Category:
Publication language: Russian

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