Streamer HBO Max has given an 8-episode straight-to-series order to Circe, a drama series adaptation of Madeline Miller’s bestseller of the same name.

Circe is one of the most powerful female figures in "The Odyssey." She thought it would be a really great showdown, but it's not. MILLER: So he pulls out his sword.

This reference to the Lannister patriarch is one of several hints that Cersei seems to fancy herself the new Tywin — who is often credited as one of Westeros’ most effective political leaders.

Circe, Miller's newest novel, is a stunning epic of a book. Readers follow the goddess Circe from her youth in her parents' immortal halls to her exile on the island of Aiaia. Along the way ...

Madeleine Miller's lush, gold-lit new novel is told from the perspective of Circe, the sorceress whose brief appearance in the Odyssey becomes just one moment in a longer, more complex life.