EPISODE TWENTY-ONE: THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS (CIRCE: Part 1)

 
 

La Belle et la Bête

Jean Cocteau’s 1946 French surrealist romantic fantasy film starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast

Helios: The God of the Sun

“And Theia was subject in love to Hyperion and bare great Helios (Sun) and clear Selene (Moon) and Eos (Dawn) who shines upon all that are on earth and upon the deathless Gods who live in the wide heaven.”

-Hesiod, Theogony lines 371-374

Kykeon with Max Miller

Watch Max Miller’s delightful and well-researched recreation of the dish that Circe serve’s to Odysseus’s sailors, with swinish results.

 

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