Circe By: Lauren Oppenheimer

Circe
• Circe was a minor Greek goddess.

• She had the power to turn men into beasts.

• The name Circe came from the verb kirkoo meaning

“to secure with rings”.

• Lived on the island of Aeaea.

• Known for being generous but jealous.

 Circe
• Circes story was told in the story of the
Odyssey.
• Turned Odysseus’s men into animals.
• Odysseus was given a magic herb that
prevented him from being turned to an
animal.
• To save him men from being animals
forever he had to sleep with Circe.
 Family Tree
Hyperion-Theia Oceanus-Tethys
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Helios - Perse
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Perses, Aeptes, Circe, Pasiphae
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Agrius, Latinus
 Circe in Other Tales
• In another tale Circe was told to have turned
Picus into a woodpecker.

• In another story she was told to have a

daughter named Aega.

• She was also told to have fallen inlove with

Glaucus and turned his love, Scylia into a
serpent with 3 dog heads
 Circe

• “The story of circe was a popular

subject in western art to remind the
viewer of the ignorant pleasures that
can turn men into animals” (Chanline
40)
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