Circe by Madeline Miller Within the house of Helios, the god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a girl is born. But Circe could be a bizarre child—not capable, like her father, nor violently appealing like her mother. Turning to the world of mortals for companionship, she finds that she does have power—the control of witchcraft, which can change rivals into creatures and danger the divine beings themselves. Undermined, Zeus expels her to a forsaken island, where she sharpens her mysterious create, restrains wild mammoths and crosses ways with numerous of the foremost popular figures in all of mythology, counting the Minotaur, Daedalus and his destined child Icarus, the dangerous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus.