Nurturing Your Power & Learning Self-Worth: A Circe Book Review
In starting this post, I accidentally wrote 'Cirice' instead of 'Circe.' I thought about it and decided to see if there was a chance of there being a connection between the two. Cirice is a song by the band Ghost and one of my favorites to listen to. The music video demonstrates a girl has psychic abilities in a heavily religious environment, which could lead to the community accusing her of witchcraft and establishing a link to Circe. I want to interject here that I am not that familiar with Greek Mythology. I know only the names of a few gods and goddesses (which I sometimes confuse with their Roman equivalent) from movies like Disney's Hercules and a childhood book of stories that were watered down for a younger audience. All I knew before reading Madeline Miller's book Circe was that the name belonged to a Greek goddess, but even now, I see that that is debated because she is sometimes called a sorceress or a minor goddess. So, it is only now that I d...