Madeline Miller's powerful new novel recasts the goddess Circe, best known for turning Odysseus' men into pigs in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," as a powerful feminist goddess. The book follows ...

You might remember Circe as the beautiful enchantress from The Odyssey, famed for turning men into pigs. Or perhaps you only know her as a vague figure from hazy Greek antiquity, or as the namesake of ...

On a cold, sunny afternoon in March, novelist Madeline Miller wandered through the Greek and Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, swooning over ancient amphoras and ethereal statues of ...

Circe, the Greek goddess whose special skill lay in effecting metamorphoses, has all the qualifications for being hailed as the archetypal female artist by posterity. With her dissident creativity — ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

At this week's Liberal Arts research seminar we're pleased to welcome Professor Gill Perry, Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Open University. Gill will be speaking on ‘Islands, Goddesses, and ...