There’s no word yet on who will star in the series or when production will begin. If the show is a faithful adaptation of the book you can be that the main characters will be Circe, powerful and mystical daughter of Helios the sun god; Odysseus, the warrior who ends up stranded on Circe’s island after the Battle of Troy; and the inventor Daedalus who crafted the maze for the Minotaur of Crete.

With its mixture of fantasy, magic, sex and power Circe is perfectly positioned to fill the Game of Thrones-shaped hole in HBO’s upcoming slate. Some of their other forthcoming series include Dune: The Sisterhood, a feminist retelling of the beloved sci-fi novel as well as dystopian adaptation Station Eleven, a Gossip Girl reboot and Tokyo Vice, a gritty series about the seedy underbelly of Japanese organised crime starring Ansel Elgort.

Circe: Madeline Miller’s beloved Greek myth retelling is being turned into a TV series