So, you bide your time and force the gods' hands in the game of retribution. Slowly, you plot.īut when your husband returns in triumph, you become a woman with a choice.Īcceptance or vengeance, infamy follows both. Because this was not the first offence against you. You watch him wage war on a foreign shore, and you comfort yourself with violent thoughts of your own. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant.
She already knows which option suits her best.
Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen.Īs for queens, they are either hated or forgotten.
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