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About the product Master Daedalus constructs wings for his son Icarus, and he, disobeying his father’s warnings, rises too high to the sun and breaks. The ferocious Minotaur rushes about in the underground labyrinth of Crete, waiting for new victims. The cunning Odysseus, having won Agamemnon’s victory in the Trojan War, tries to get home, but, having lost the protection of Athena, suffers many hardships and ends up on an island ruled by the witch Circe, and she turns his team members into pigs … We know these stories from childhood. Madeleine Miller helps us to imagine what passions raged in the hearts of all these creatures and people, what they were afraid of, whom they loved, what they could hide from their descendants. Miller, with boundless imagination, connects different facts, weaving legend after legend into a single canvas of the novel. In the center of the story is Circe, the daughter of the powerful titan Helios and the oceanid Perseids. How did it happen that an unknown nymph is exiled, like a most dangerous criminal, to a desert island? How does the daughter of Helios become a sorceress, whose powers are feared by the Olympians themselves? How does she feel to live alone? And, most importantly, what happened between her and Odysseus, whose storm-battered ship landed on her island one fine day? Annotation Circe is the daughter of the great titan Helios, the sun god who illuminates the sky every day. But she almost does not feel her divine nature: her brother and sister mock her, her mother cannot stand the sounds of her voice, and her father hardly pays attention to her. As a child, she is present at the trial of Prometheus, a powerful titan who sacrificed his freedom for the welfare of mortals, and this meeting changes her life forever. As well as a meeting with Glavkos, a poor young fisherman, for whom Circe is doing something so incredible that even the golden-eyed Helios and Zeus the Thunderer are confused and decide to send her into exile on the uninhabited island of Eeya. And this is where the fun begins.
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