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...and we came to the isle of Aeaea, where dwelt fair-tressed Circe, a dread goddess of human speech, own sister to Aeetes of baneful mind; and both are sprung from Helius, who gives light to mortals, and from Perse, their mother, whom Oceanus begot.
The daughter Odysseus and Circe had. Her brother was Telegonos. Cassiphone
grew up with her mother and brother on the island of Aeaea.
When Odysseus died, Telegonos brought his body to the island, as
well as the dead king's family. Cassiphone married Telemachus and Telegonos
Penelope. After a terrible argument Telemachus killed Circe, and Cassiphone
then killed him as a revenge. She bore him a daughter, Roma, who was to marry
Aeneas.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
A mythical island, where Circe lived (Od. 10.135).
Beautiful witch who lived on the island Aeaea, near Italy.
Her father was the sun-god Helios and her mother the sea nymph Perse. Surrounding
her palace were wild animals wich were tame, since they really were bewitched
humans.
When Odysseus' crew came to her island, she invited them in and turned
them into swines with a magic potion. With the help of an antidote Hermes had
given him, Odysseus managed to drink her poison without being transformed. Circe
was so surprised when nothing happened to Odysseus that for a second she was defenseless,
and the hero seized the moment and put a sword to her throat, threatening to kill
her. She was then forced to turn his crew back to men, and they all stayed with
her for a year.
On their leave, she told Odysseus to find Tiresias in Hades,
so that the seer could provide him with important information for his journey
home.
This text is cited Sept 2003 from the In2Greece URL below.
She was the daughter of Helius by Perse, daughter of Oceanus, and sister to Aeetes, who lived in the isle of Aeaea (Od. 10.136). Circe possessed magic power and she turned the comrades of Odysseus into swines, but Odysseus convinced her to bring them back to their human figure (Od. 10.230-364).
Circe (Kirke). The sister of Aeetes, king of Colchis, and daughter
of the Sun and Perse, or Perseis, one of the ocean-nymphs. Circe is celebrated
for her skill in magic arts, and for her knowledge of subtle poisons. According
to Homer, she dwelt in an island (Aeaea), attended by four nymphs, and all persons
who approached her dwelling were first feasted, and then, on tasting the contents
of her magic cup, converted into beasts. When Odysseus had been thrown on her
shores, he deputed some of his companions to explore the country; these, incautiously
partaking of the banquet set before them, were, by the effect of the enchanted
potion, transformed into swine. When Odysseus himself, on hearing of their misfortune
from Eurylochus, set out to release them or share their fate, he was met by Hermes,
who gave him a plant named moly (molu), potent against her magic, and directed
him how to act. Accordingly when she handed him the medicated cup, he drank of
it freely; and Circe, thinking it had produced its usual effect, striking him
with her wand, bade him go join his comrades in their sty. But Odysseus, drawing
his sword, threatened to slay her; and the terrified goddess bound herself by
a solemn oath to do him no injury. She afterwards, at his desire, restored his
companions to their pristine form, and they all abode in her dwelling for an entire
year. Circe is said to have had by Odysseus a son named Telegonus, who afterwards
unwittingly slew his own father in Ithaca, whither he had wandered in search of
him.
Later writers took great liberties with the narratives of Homer
and Hesiod. Thus, for example, Dionysius, the Cyclic poet, makes Circe the daughter
of Aeetes by Hecate, the daughter of his brother Perses. He goes on to say that
she was [p. 350] married to the king of the Sarmatians, whom she poisoned and
seized his kingdom; but, governing tyrannically, she was expelled, and then fled
to a desert isle of the ocean, or, as some said, to the headland named from her
in Italy. The Latin writers thence took occasion to connect Circe with their own
scanty mythology.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Circe (Kirke), a mythical sorceress, whom Homer calls a fair-locked goddess, a daughter of Helios by the oceanid Perse, and a sister of Aeetes (Od. x. 135). She lived in the island of Aeaea; and when Odysseus on his wanderings came to her island, Circe, after having changed several of his companions into pigs, became so much attached to the unfortunate hero, that he was induced to remain a whole year with her. At length, when he wished to leave her, she prevailed upon him to descend into the lower world to consult the seer Teiresias. After his return from thence, she explained to him the dangers which he would yet have to encounter, and then dismissed him (Od. lib. x.-xii.; comp. Hygin. Fab. 125). Her descent is differently described by the poets, for some call her a daughter of Hyperion and Aerope (Orph. Argon. 1215), and others a daughter of Aeetes and Hecate (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iii. 200). According to Hesiod (Theog. 1011) she became by Odysseus the mother of Agrius. The Latin poets too make great use of the story of Circe, the sorceress, who metamorphosed Scylla and Picus, king of the Ausonians (Ov. Met. xiv. 9, &c.).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Aeaea. A surname of Circe, the sister of Aeetes. (Hom. Od. ix. 32; Apollon. Rhod. iv. 559; Virg. Aen. iii. 386.) Her son Telegonus is likewise mentioned with this surname. (Acaeus, Propert. ii. 23. § 42.)
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