2023年3月8日 · Circe also featured in other myths, including the tale of the Argonauts, in which she was the one who purified Jason and Medea for their murder of the Colchian prince Apsyrtus. In another tradition, Circe’s son by Odysseus, Telegonus , wound up killing his father by accident, after which he married Odysseus’ widow Penelope while Odysseus ...

2023年4月28日 · The god Hermes aided in this quest by gifting Odysseus a plant that made him immune to Circe’s magic. When he came to the witch’s palace, he demanded that she restore his men to their true form. Circe, realizing that she had no power over Odysseus, did as he asked. Circe by Wright Barker (1889) Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford Public ...

2023年3月22日 · The sorceress Circe had warned him that he was better off sailing close to Scylla and losing a handful of his men, rather than sailing too close to Charybdis and losing his whole ship and crew. Odysseus followed Circe’s instructions: as he sailed by Scylla, six of his men were snatched up and eaten (one for each of Scylla’s heads).

2023年8月17日 · Aeetes belongs to a very early stratum of Greek mythology. The earliest literary reference to him can be found in Homer (eighth century BCE), where he is mentioned as the wicked brother of Circe in Book 10 of the Odyssey (135ff). Aeetes’ genealogy was also outlined by Hesiod (eighth/seventh century BCE) in his Theogony (956ff).

Strait Circe reddens with a guilty shame, And vows revenge for her rejected flame. Fierce liking oft a spight as fierce creates; For love refus’d, without aversion, hates. To hurt her hapless rival she proceeds; And, by the fall of Scylla, Glaucus bleeds. Some fascinating bev’rage now she brews; Compos’d of deadly drugs, and baneful juice.

From Circe and Hecate in ancient Greece to “The Lady of the Green Kirtle” in C.S. Lewis’ The Silver Chair, mages capture our imaginations because of their hidden, supernatural knowledge about worlds beyond our own. The category of “mage” is just as broad as its names, which is why you’ll see influences from nearly every culture.

2023年9月20日 · Circe also gave Odysseus two further pieces of advice: first, not to arm himself or try to fight Scylla, as doing so would only give the monster a chance to pounce a second time and kill another six men; and second, to pray to Scylla’s mother, Crataeis, to hold off her daughter from pouncing more than once.

2023年3月1日 · Circe initially transforms several of Odysseus’ men into swine, but she eventually restores them to their original form and even grants hospitality to Odysseus and his companions (Book 10). Attic red-figure lekythos (oil jar) showing Odysseus threatening Circe by the Nikon Painter (ca. 480–470 BCE)

Circe in vain invites the feast to share; Absent I ponder, and absorb’d in care; While scenes of woe rose anxious in my breast, The queen beheld me, and these words address’d: “‘Why sits Ulysses silent and apart, Some hoard of grief close harbour’d at his heart Untouch’d before thee stand the cates divine, And unregarded laughs the ...

2022年11月29日 · Medea was also a descendant of the gods. Her grandfather was Helios, the Titan who personified the sun, and she was the niece of Circe, a minor goddess who was also a powerful magician. Given her pedigree, it is unsurprising that ancient sources were divided on whether Medea was an ordinary mortal or a divine being.