39 Facts About Circe

Circe is an enchantress and a minor goddess in ancient Greek mythology and religion.

Circe's is either a daughter of the Titan Helios and the Oceanid nymph Perse or the goddess Hecate and Aeetes.

Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs.

Circe manages to persuade her to return them to human shape, lives with her for a year and has sons by her, including Latinus and Telegonus.

In revenge, Circe poisoned the water where her rival bathed and turned her into a dreadful monster.

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Circe was taken as the archetype of the predatory female.

Circe's has been frequently depicted as such in all the arts from the Renaissance down to modern times.

Circe's was often confused with Calypso, due to her shifts in behavior and personality, and the association that both of them had with Odysseus.

Ovid's The Cure for Love implies that Circe might have been taught the knowledge of herbs and potions from her mother Perse, who seems to have had similar skills.

Circe invites Jason, Medea and their crew into her mansion; uttering no words, they show her the still bloody sword they used to cut Absyrtus down, and Circe immediately realizes they've visited her to be purified of murder.

Glaucus went to Circe, and asked her for a magic potion to make Scylla fall in love with him too.

Enraged, Circe used her knowledge of herbs and plants to take her revenge; she found the spot where Scylla usually took her bath, and poisoned the water.

Circe fell in love and married a nymph, Canens, to whom he was utterly devoted.

Circe fell immediately in love with him; but Picus, just like Glaucus before him, spurned her and declared that he would remain forever faithful to Canens.

Circe invites the hero Odysseus' crew to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but mixed with one of her magical potions that turns them into swine.

Circe tells Odysseus that he must then draw his sword and act as if he were going to attack her.

Circe advises him on how this might be achieved and furnishes him with the protections he will need and the means to communicate with the dead.

Circe eventually informed her son who his absent father was and, when he set out to find Odysseus, gave him a poisoned spear.

Circe married Telemachus, and Telegonus married Penelope by the advice of Athena.

Three ancient plays about Circe have been lost: the work of the tragedian Aeschylus and of the 4th-century BC comic dramatists Ephippus of Athens and Anaxilas.

Theme of Circe turning men into a variety of animals was elaborated by later writers.

Circe was only released when his army came searching for him on the condition that he would never set foot on her island again.

Strabo writes that a tomb-shrine of Circe was attended in one of the Pharmacussae islands, off the coast of Attica, typical for hero-worship.

Strabo says that Circe had a shrine in the small town, and that the people there kept a bowl they claimed belonged to Odysseus.

Story of Ulysses and Circe was retold as an episode in Georg Rollenhagen's German verse epic, Froschmeuseler .

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The sorceress Circe is then asked by her handmaiden Moeris about the type of behaviour with which each is associated.

Circe, wishing to be rid of the company of Ulysses, agrees to change back his companions, but only the dolphin is willing.

Venetian Gasparo Gozzi was another Italian who returned to Gelli for inspiration in the 14 prose Dialoghi dell'isola di Circe published as journalistic pieces between 1760 and 1764.

Dobson's "The Prayer of the Swine to Circe" depicts the horror of being imprisoned in an animal body in this way with the human consciousness unchanged.

Lord de Tabley's "Circe" is a thing of decadent perversity likened to a tulip, A flaunting bloom, naked and undivine.

Several female poets make Circe stand up for herself, using the soliloquy form to voice the woman's position.

Leigh Gordon Giltner's "Circe" was included in her collection The Path of Dreams, the first stanza of which relates the usual story of men turned into swine by her spell.

Circe's is made to love an ass after, rather than before, he is transformed into his true animal likeness.

At the centre Odysseus threatens Circe with drawn sword while an animal headed figure stands on either side, one of them laying his hand familiarly on the hero's shoulder.

The earliest was Beatrice Offor, whose sitter's part in her 1911 painting of Circe is suggested by the vine-leaf crown in her long dark hair, the snake-twined goblet she carries and the snake bracelet on her left arm.

The poem opens with the abandoned Circe sitting on a high mountain and mourning the departure of Ulysses.

Gerald Humel's song cycle Circe grew out of his work on his 1993 ballet with Thomas Hoft.

The German experimental musician Dieter Schnebel's Circe is a work for harp, the various sections of which are titled Signale, Sauseln, Verlockungen, Pein, Schlage and Umgarnen, which give some idea of their programmatic intent.

In later Christian opinion, Circe was an abominable witch using miraculous powers to evil ends.