Circe

Circe has bewitched storytellers for nearly three thousand years - sorceress, seductress, exile, and one of literature's earliest and most complex female powers. Circe: an Anthology brings together six essential works spanning ancient epic to Victorian verse, tracing how she was seen, feared, and reinvented across the centuries.

Inside this collection:

• Homer's Odyssey, Book X (trans. Samuel Butler) - the original account of Circe's island, her transformation of Odysseus's men into swine, and the year he stayed as her guest
• Ovid's Metamorphoses, Fables I and VI (trans. Henry T. Riley) - Circe's darker vengeance, turning rivals and enemies alike into monstrous forms
• Nathaniel Hawthorne's retelling from Tanglewood Tales - a gentler, more moralizing Circe for a 19th-century audience
• Two poems titled "Circe" by Lord de Tabley - atmospheric, decadent Victorian verse
• Augusta Webster's "Circe" - a striking dramatic monologue that gives the enchantress her own voice and interiority

Presented in a clean, readable paperback edition designed for a general audience rather than the academy, this anthology traces Circe's long literary shadow - from monster-maker to misunderstood woman - through the words of the writers who couldn't stop returning to her.

A Fauun edition: hand-typeset, thoughtfully presented, and designed as part of a collectable series.