What Circe Taught Me — The Blatant Distortion of Female Rage

How myth and magic as a means against the terror of uncontrolled nature, and therefore, the urge to deny female rage, made Circe into a devilish femme fatale.

With regard to the diachronic change of meaning from antiquity to the present day and the synchronous variety of word uses, it is not easy to define the term myth conceptually. According to Merriam-Webster, a myth is “usually a traditional story of ostensibly…