Circe

Circe
Circe (/ˈsɜːrsiː/; Greek: Κίρκη Kírkē pronounced [kírkɛː]) is a
goddess of magic or sometimes a nymph, enchantress or sorceress in
Greek mythology. She is a daughter of the god Helios and either the
Oceanid nymph Perse or the goddess Hecate. Circe was renowned
for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs; one of her Homeric
epithets is polypharmakos ("knowing many drugs or charms").[1]
Through the use of these and a magic wand or staff, she would
transform her enemies, or those who offended her, into animals.
Circe
The best known of her legends is told in Homer's Odyssey when
Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan
War and she changes most of his crew into swine. He forces her to
return them to human shape, lives with her for a year and has sons
by her, including Latinus and Telegonus. Her ability to change others
into animals is further highlighted by the story of Picus, an Italian
king whom she turns into a woodpecker for resisting her advances.
Another story makes her fall in love with the sea-god Glaucus, who
prefers the nymph Scylla to her. In revenge, Circe poisoned the
water where her rival bathed and turned her into a dreadful monster.
Depictions, even in Classical times, wandered away from the detail
in Homer's narrative, which was later to be reinterpreted morally as a
cautionary story against drunkenness. Early philosophical questions
were also raised whether the change from a reasoning being to a
beast was not preferable after all, and this paradox was to have a
powerful impact during the Renaissance. Circe was also taken as the
archetype of the predatory female. In the eyes of those from a later
age, this behaviour made her notorious both as a magician and as a
type of the sexually free woman. As such she has been frequently
depicted in all the arts from the Renaissance down to modern times.
Abode
Aeaea
Personal information
Parents
Helios
Perse or Hecate
Siblings Aeëtes, Pasiphaë,
Perses
Consort Odysseus
Western paintings established a visual iconography for the figure, Children Telegonus
but also went for inspiration to other stories concerning Circe that
appear in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The episodes of Scylla and Picus added the vice of violent jealousy to her
bad qualities and made her a figure of fear as well as of desire.
Contents
Classical literature
Homer's Odyssey
Other texts
Later literature
Reasoning beasts
Sexual politics
Parallels and sequels
Visual representations
Ancient art
Portraits in character
Musical treatments
Cantata and song
Classical ballet and programmatic music
Opera
Scientific interpretations
Other influence
In popular culture
See also
References
Bibliography
Ancient
Modern
External links
Classical literature
By most accounts, she was the daughter of Helios, the Titan sun god, and Perse, one of the three thousand
Oceanid nymphs. Her brothers were Aeëtes, keeper of the Golden Fleece, and Perses. Her sister was
Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.[2] Other accounts make her the daughter of
Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft.[3] She was often confused with Calypso, due to her shifts in behavior and
personality, and the association that both of them had with Odysseus.[4]
Homer's Odyssey
In Homer's Odyssey, an 8th-century BCE sequel to his Trojan War
epic Iliad, Circe is initially described as a beautiful enchantress
living in a palace isolated in the midst of a dense wood on her
(fictitious) island of Aeaea. Around her home prowl strangely
docile lions and wolves. She lures any who land on the island to
her home with her lovely singing while weaving on an enormous
loom, but later drugs them so that they change shape.[5] She invites
Frederick S. Church's Circe (1910)
the hero Odysseus' crew to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of
cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but
also mixed with one of her magical potions that turns them into
swine. Only Eurylochus, who suspects treachery, does not go in. He escapes to warn Odysseus and the
others who have remained with the ship.
Before Odysseus reaches Circe's palace, Hermes, the messenger god sent by Athena, intercepts him and
reveals how he might defeat Circe in order to free his crew from their enchantment. Hermes provides
Odysseus with the herb moly to protect him from Circe's magic. He also tells Odysseus that he must then
draw his sword and act as if he were going to attack her. From there, as Hermes foretold, Circe would ask
Odysseus to bed, but Hermes advises caution, for the treacherous goddess could still "unman" him unless he
has her swear by the names of the gods that she will not take any further action against him. Following this
advice, Odysseus is able to free his men. After they have all
remained on the island for a year, Circe advises Odysseus that he
must first visit the Underworld, something a mortal has never yet
done,[6] in order to gain knowledge about how to appease the gods,
return home safely and recover his kingdom. Circe also 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. On his return, she further advises him about two possible
routes home, warning him, however, that both carry great danger.
Annibale Carracci's Ulysses and
Circe (c. 1590) at Farnese Palace
Other texts
Towards the end of Hesiod's Theogony (c. 700 BCE), it is stated that Circe
bore Odysseus three sons: Ardeas or Agrius (otherwise unknown); Latinus;
and Telegonus, who ruled over the Tyrsenoi, that is the Etruscans. The
Telegony, an epic now lost, relates the later history of the last of these. Circe
eventually informed him who his absent father was and, when he set out to
find Odysseus, gave him a poisoned spear. With this he killed his father
unknowingly. Telegonus then brought back his father's corpse to Aeaea,
together with Penelope and Odysseus' other son Telemachus. After burying
Odysseus, Circe made the others immortal.
In the 5th-century CE epic Dionysiaca, author Nonnus mentions Phaunos,
Circe's son by the sea god Poseidon.[7]
Angelica Kauffman's
painting of Circe enticing
Odysseus (1786)
According to Lycophron's 3rd-century BCE poem Alexandra, and John
Tzetzes' scholia on it, Circe used magical herbs to bring Odysseus back to
life after he had been killed by Telegonus. Odysseus then gave Telemachus
to Circe's daughter Cassiphone in marriage. Some time later, Telemachus
had a quarrel with his mother-in-law and killed her; Cassiphone then killed Telemachus to avenge her
mother's death. On hearing of this, Odysseus died of grief.
In his 3rd-century BCE epic, the Argonautica, Apollonius Rhodius relates that Circe purified the Argonauts
for the death of Absyrtus,[8] possibly reflecting an early tradition.[9] In this poem, the animals that surround
her are not former lovers transformed but primeval 'beasts, not resembling the beasts of the wild, nor yet like
men in body, but with a medley of limbs'.[10]
Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1.72.5) cites Xenagoras, the 2nd-century BCE historian, as claiming that
Odysseus and Circe had three sons: Rhomus, Anteias, and Ardeias, who respectively founded three cities
called by their names: Rome, Antium, and Ardea.
Three ancient plays about Circe have been lost: the work of the tragedian Aeschylus and of the 4th-century
BCE comic dramatists Ephippus of Athens and Anaxilas. The first told the story of Odysseus' encounter
with Circe. Vase paintings from the period suggest that Odysseus' half-transformed animal-men formed the
chorus in place of the usual Satyrs. Fragments of Anaxilas also mention the transformation and one of the
characters complains of the impossibility of scratching his face now that he is a pig.[11]
Some say she was exiled to the solitary island of Aeaea by her subjects and her father Helios for killing her
husband, the prince of Colchis. Later traditions tell of her leaving or even destroying the island and moving
to Italy, where she was identified with Cape Circeo.
The theme of turning men into a variety of animals was elaborated by later
writers, especially in Latin. In Virgil's Aeneid, Aeneas skirts the Italian
island where Circe now dwells, and hears the cries of her many male
victims, who now number more than the pigs of earlier accounts:
The roars of lions that refuse the chain, / The grunts of bristled
boars, and groans of bears, / And herds of howling wolves that
stun the sailors' ears.[12]
Ovid's 1st-century Metamorphoses collects
more transformation stories in its 14th book.
The fourth episode covers Circe's encounter
Émile Lévy's Circé (1889)
with Ulysses (Roman names of Odysseus).
The first episode in that book deals with the
story of Glaucus and Scylla, in which the
enamoured sea-god seeks a love potion to win Scylla's love, only to have the
sorceress fall in love with him. When she is unsuccessful, she takes revenge
on her rival by turning Scylla into a monster (lines 1–74). The story of the
Latian king Picus is told in the fifth episode (and also alluded to in the
Aeneid). Circe fell in love with him too; when he preferred to remain faithful
to his wife Canens, she turned him into a woodpecker (lines 308–440).[13]
Plutarch took up the theme in a lively dialogue that was later to have several
imitators. Contained in his 1st-century Moralia is the Gryllus episode in
which Circe allows Odysseus to interview a fellow Greek turned into a pig.
There his interlocutor informs Odysseus that his present existence is
preferable to the human. They then engage in a philosophical dialogue in
which every human value is questioned and beasts are proved to be of
superior wisdom and virtue.[14]
Circe and Scylla in John
William Waterhouse's Circe
Invidiosa (1892)
Later literature
Giovanni Boccaccio provided a
digest of what was known of Circe during the Middle Ages in his De
mulieribus claris (Famous Women, 1361–1362). While following the
tradition that she lived in Italy, he comments wryly that there are
now many more temptresses like her to lead men astray.[15]
There is a very different interpretation of the encounter with Circe in
John Gower's long didactic poem Confessio Amantis (1380). Ulysses
is depicted as deeper in sorcery and readier of tongue than Circe and
through this means he leaves her pregnant with Telegonus. Most of
the account deals with the son's later quest for and accidental killing
of his father, drawing the moral that only evil can come of the use of
sorcery.[16]
"Circea" in Boccaccio's c. 1365 De
Claris Mulieribus, a catalogue of
famous women, from a 1474 edition
The story of Ulysses and Circe was retold as an episode in Georg Rollenhagen's German verse epic,
Froschmeuseler (The Frogs and Mice, Magdeburg, 1595). In this 600-page expansion of the pseudoHomeric Batrachomyomachia, it is related at the court of the mice and takes up sections 5–8 of the first
part.[17]
In Lope de Vega's miscellany La Circe – con otras rimas y prosas (1624), the story of her encounter with
Ulysses appears as a verse epic in three cantos.[18] This takes its beginning from Homer's account, but it is
then embroidered; in particular, Circe's love for Ulysses remains unrequited.
As "Circe's Palace", Nathaniel Hawthorne retold the Homeric account as the third section in his collection of
stories from Greek mythology, Tanglewood Tales (1853). The transformed Picus continually appears in this,
trying to warn Ulysses, and then Eurylochus, of the danger to be found in the palace, and is rewarded at the
end by being given back his human shape. In most accounts Ulysses only demands this for his own men.[19]
In her survey of the Transformations of Circe, Judith Yarnall comments of this figure, who started out as a
comparatively minor goddess of unclear origin, that "What we know for certain – what Western literature
attests to – is her remarkable staying power…These different versions of Circe's myth can be seen as
mirrors, sometimes clouded and sometimes clear, of the fantasies and assumptions of the cultures that
produced them." After appearing as just one of the characters that Odysseus encounters on his wandering,
"Circe herself, in the twists and turns of her story through the centuries, has gone through far more
metamorphoses than those she inflicted on Odysseus's companions."[20]
Reasoning beasts
One of the most enduring literary themes connected with the figure
of Circe was her ability to change men into animals. There was
much speculation concerning how this could be, whether the human
consciousness changed at the same time, and even whether it was a
change for the better. The Gryllus dialogue was taken up by another
Italian writer, Giovan Battista Gelli, in his La Circe (1549). This is a
series of ten philosophical and moral dialogues between Ulysses and
the humans transformed into various animals, ranging from an oyster
Giovanni Battista Trotti's fresco of
to an elephant, in which Circe sometimes joins. Most argue against
Circe returning Ulysses' followers to
changing back; only the last animal, a philosopher in its former
human form (c. 1610)
existence, wants to.[21] English poet Edmund Spenser also makes
reference to Plutarch's dialogue in the section of his Faerie Queene
(1590) based on the Circe episode which appears at the end of Book
II. Sir Guyon changes back the victims of Acrasia's erotic frenzy in the Bower of Bliss, most of whom are
abashed at their fall from chivalric grace, But one above the rest in speciall, / That had an hog beene late,
hight Grille by name, / Repined greatly, and did him miscall, / That had from hoggish forme him brought to
naturall.[22]
Two other Italians wrote rather different works that centre on the
animal within the human. One was Niccolò Machiavelli in his
unfinished long poem, L'asino d'oro (The Golden Ass, 1516). The
author meets a beautiful herdswoman surrounded by Circe's herd of
beasts. After spending a night of love with him, she explains the
characteristics of the animals in her charge: the lions are the brave,
the bears are the violent, the wolves are those forever dissatisfied,
and so on (Canto 6). In Canto 7 he is introduced to those who
experience frustration: a cat that has allowed its prey to escape; an
agitated dragon; a fox constantly on the look-out for traps; a dog that
Dosso Dossi's Circe and Her Lovers
bays the moon; Aesop's lion in love that allowed himself to be
(c. 1525)
deprived of his teeth and claws. There are also emblematic satirical
portraits of various Florentine personalities. In the eighth and last
canto he has a conversation with a pig that, like the Gryllus of Plutarch, does not want to be changed back
and condemns human greed, cruelty and conceit.[23]
The other Italian author was the esoteric philosopher Giordano Bruno, who wrote in Latin. His Cantus
Circaeus (The Incantation of Circe) was the fourth work on memory and the association of ideas by him to
be published in 1582. It contains a series of poetic dialogues, in the first of which, after a long series of
incantations to the seven planets of the Hermetic tradition, most humans appear changed into different
creatures in the scrying bowl. The sorceress Circe is then asked by her handmaiden Moeris about the type of
behaviour with which each is associated. According to Circe, for instance, fireflies are the learned, wise, and
illustrious amidst idiots, asses, and obscure men (Question 32). In later sections different characters discuss
the use of images in the imagination in order to facilitate use of the art of memory, which is the real aim of
the work.[24]
French writers were to take their lead from Gelli in the following century.[25] Antoine Jacob wrote a one-act
social comedy in rhyme, Les Bestes raisonnables (The Reasoning Beasts, 1661) which allowed him to
satirise contemporary manners. On the isle of Circe, Ulysses encounters an ass that was once a doctor, a lion
that had been a valet, a female doe and a horse, all of whom denounce the decadence of the times. The ass
sees human asses everywhere, Asses in the town square, asses in the suburbs, / Asses in the provinces, asses
proud at court, / Asses browsing in the meadows, military asses trooping, / Asses tripping it at balls, asses in
the theatre stalls. To drive the point home, in the end it is only the horse, formerly a courtesan, who wants to
return to her former state.
Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg's
Ulysses at the Palace of Circe (1667)
The same theme occupies La Fontaine's late fable, "The Companions
of Ulysses" (XII.1, 1690), that also echoes Plutarch and Gelli. Once
transformed, every animal (which include a lion, a bear, a wolf and a
mole) protest that their lot is better and refuse to be restored to
human shape.[26] Charles Dennis shifted this fable to stand at the
head of his translation of La Fontaine, Select Fables (1754), but
provides his own conclusion that When Mortals from the path of
Honour stray, / And the strong passions over reason sway, / What
are they then but Brutes? / 'Tis vice alone that constitutes /
Th'enchanting wand and magic bowl, The exterior form of Man they
wear, / But are in fact both Wolf and Bear, / The transformation's in
the Soul.[27]
Louis Fuzelier and Marc-Antoine Legrand titled their comic opera of 1718 Les animaux raisonnables. It had
more or less the same scenario transposed into another medium and set to music by Jacques Aubert. Circe,
wishing to be rid of the company of Ulysses, agrees to change back his companions, but only the dolphin is
willing. The others, who were formerly a corrupt judge (now a wolf), a financier (a pig), an abused wife (a
hen), a deceived husband (a bull) and a flibbertigibbet (a linnet), find their present existence more agreeable.
The Venetian Gasparo Gozzi was another Italian who returned to
Gelli for inspiration in the 14 prose Dialoghi dell'isola di Circe
(Dialogues from Circe's Island) published as journalistic pieces
between 1760 and 1764. In this moral work, the aim of Ulysses in
talking to the beasts is to learn more of the human condition. It
includes figures from fable (The fox and the crow, XIII) and from
myth to illustrate its vision of society at variance. Far from needing
the intervention of Circe, the victims find their natural condition as
Circe by John Collier (19th century)
soon as they set foot on the island. The philosopher here is not
Gelli's elephant but the bat that retreats from human contact into the
darkness, like Bruno's fireflies (VI). The only one who wishes to
change in Gozzi's work is the bear, a satirist who had dared to criticize Circe and had been changed as a
punishment (IX).
There were two more satirical dramas in later centuries. One modelled on the Gryllus episode in Plutarch
occurs as a chapter of Thomas Love Peacock's late novel, Gryll Grange (1861), under the title
"Aristophanes in London". Half Greek comedy, half Elizabethan masque, it is acted at the Grange by the
novel's characters as a Christmas entertainment. In it Spiritualist mediums raise Circe and Gryllus and try to
convince the latter of the superiority of modern times, which he rejects as intellectually and materially
regressive.[28] An Italian work drawing on the transformation theme was the comedy by Ettore Romagnoli,
La figlia del Sole (The Daughter of the Sun, 1919). Hercules arrives on the island of Circe with his servant
Cercopo and has to be rescued by the latter when he too is changed into a pig. But, since the naturally
innocent other animals had become corrupted by imitating human vices, the others who had been changed
were refused when they begged to be rescued.
Also in England, Austin Dobson engaged more seriously with Homer's account of the transformation of
Odysseus' companions when, though Head, face and members bristle into swine, / Still cursed with sense,
their mind remains alone.[29] Dobson's "The Prayer of the Swine to Circe"[30] (1640) depicts the horror of
being imprisoned in an animal body in this way with the human consciousness unchanged. There appears to
be no relief, for only in the final line is it revealed that Odysseus has arrived to free them. But in Matthew
Arnold's dramatic poem "The Strayed Reveller" (1849),[31] in which Circe is one of the characters, the
power of her potion is differently interpreted. The inner tendencies unlocked by it are not the choice
between animal nature and reason but between two types of impersonality, between divine clarity and the
poet's participatory and tragic vision of life. In the poem, Circe discovers a youth laid asleep in the portico
of her temple by a draught of her ivy-wreathed bowl. On awaking from possession by the poetic frenzy it
has induced, he craves for it to be continued.[32]
Sexual politics
With the Renaissance there began to be a reinterpretation of what it was that changed the men, if it was not
simply magic. For Socrates, in Classical times, it had been gluttony overcoming their self-control.[33] But
for the influential emblematist Andrea Alciato, it was unchastity. In the second edition of his Emblemata
(1546), therefore, Circe became the type of the prostitute. His Emblem 76 is titled Cavendum a
meretricibus; its accompanying Latin verses mention Picus, Scylla and the companions of Ulysses, and
concludes that 'Circe with her famous name indicates a whore and any who loves such a one loses his
reason'.[34] His English imitator Geoffrey Whitney used a variation of Alciato's illustration in his own
Choice of Emblemes (1586) but gave it the new title of Homines voluptatibus transformantur, men are
transformed by their passions.[35] This explains her appearance in the Nighttown section named after her in
James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Written in the form of a stage script, it makes of Circe the brothel madam,
Bella Cohen. Bloom, the book's protagonist, fantasizes that she turns into a cruel man-tamer named Mr
Bello who makes him get down on all fours and rides him like a horse.[36]
By the 19th century, Circe was ceasing to be a mythical figure. Poets treated her either as an individual or at
least as the type of a certain kind of woman. The French poet Albert Glatigny addresses "Circé" in his Les
vignes folles (1857) and makes of her a voluptuous opium dream, the magnet of masochistic fantasies.[37]
Louis-Nicolas Ménard's sonnet in Rêveries d'un païen mystique (1876) describes her as enchanting all with
her virginal look, but appearance belies the accursed reality.[38] Poets in English were not far behind in this
lurid portrayal. Lord de Tabley's "Circe" (1895) is a thing of decadent perversity likened to a tulip, A
flaunting bloom, naked and undivine... / With freckled cheeks and splotch'd side serpentine, / A gipsy among
flowers.[39]
That central image is echoed by the blood-striped flower of T.S.Eliot's student poem "Circe's Palace" (1909)
in the Harvard Advocate. Circe herself does not appear, her character is suggested by what is in the grounds
and the beasts in the forest beyond: panthers, pythons, and peacocks that look at us with the eyes of men
whom we knew long ago.[40] Rather than a temptress, she has become an emasculatory threat.[41]
The Kingdom of Sorceress Circe by
Angelo Caroselli (c. 1630)
Several female poets make Circe stand up for herself, using the
soliloquy form to voice the woman's position. The 19th-century
English poet Augusta Webster, much of whose writing explored the
female condition, has a dramatic monologue in blank verse titled
"Circe" in her volume Portraits (1870).[42] There the sorceress
anticipates her meeting with Ulysses and his men and insists that she
does not turn men into pigs—she merely takes away the disguise
that makes them seem human. But any draught, pure water, natural
wine, / out of my cup, revealed them to themselves / and to each
other. Change? there was no change; / only disguise gone from them
unawares. The mythological character of the speaker contributes at a
safe remove to the Victorian discourse on women's sexuality by
expressing female desire and criticizing the subordinate role given to
women in heterosexual politics.[43]
Two American poets also explored feminine psychology in poems ostensibly about the enchantress. Leigh
Gordon Giltner's "Circe" was included in her collection The Path of Dreams (1900), the first stanza of which
relates the usual story of men turned to swine by her spell. But then a second stanza presents a sensuous
portrait of an unnamed woman, very much in the French vein; once more, it concludes, 'A Circe's spells
transform men into swine'.[44] This is no passive victim of male projections but a woman conscious of her
sexual power. So too is Hilda Doolittle's "Circe", from her collection Hymen (1921). In her soliloquy she
reviews the conquests with which she has grown bored, then mourns the one instance when she failed. In not
naming Ulysses himself, Doolittle universalises an emotion with which all women might identify.[45] At the
end of the century, British poet Carol Ann Duffy wrote a monologue entitled Circe which pictures the
goddess addressing an audience of 'nereids and nymphs'. In this outspoken episode in the war between the
sexes, Circe describes the various ways in which all parts of a pig could and should be cooked.[46]
Another indication of the progression in interpreting the Circe figure is given by two poems a century apart,
both of which engage with paintings of her. The first is the sonnet that Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote in
response to Edward Burne-Jones' "The Wine of Circe" in his volume Poems (1870). It gives a faithful
depiction of the painting's Pre-Raphaelite mannerism but its description of Circe's potion as 'distilled of
death and shame' also accords with the contemporary (male) identification of Circe with perversity. This is
further underlined by his statement (in a letter) that the black panthers there are 'images of ruined passion'
and by his anticipation at the end of the poem of passion's tide-strown shore / Where the disheveled seaweed
hates the sea.[47] The Australian A. D. Hope's "Circe – after the painting by Dosso Dossi", on the other
hand, frankly admits humanity's animal inheritance as natural and something in which even Circe shares. In
the poem, he links the fading rationality and speech of her lovers to her own animal cries in the act of
love.[48]
There remain some poems that bear her name that have more to do with their writers' private preoccupations
than with reinterpreting her myth. The link with it in Margaret Atwood's "Circe/Mud Poems", first published
in You Are Happy (1974), is more a matter of allusion and is nowhere overtly stated beyond the title. It is a
reflection on contemporary gender politics that scarcely needs the disguises of Augusta Webster's.[49] With
two other poems by male writers it is much the same: Louis Macneice's, for example, whose "Circe"
appeared in his first volume, Poems (London, 1935); or Robert Lowell's, whose "Ulysses and Circe"
appeared in his last, Day by Day (New York, 1977). Both poets have appropriated the myth to make a
personal statement about their broken relationships.[50]
Parallels and sequels
Several Renaissance epics of the 16th century include lascivious sorceresses
based on the Circe figure. These generally live in an isolated spot devoted to
pleasure, to which lovers are lured and later changed into beasts. They
include the following:
Alcina in the Orlando Furioso (Mad Roland, 1516, 1532) of
Ludovico Ariosto, set at the time of Charlemagne. Among its
many sub-plots is the episode in which the Saracen champion
Ruggiero is taken captive by the sorceress and has to be freed
from her magic island.[51]
The lovers of Filidia in Il Tancredi (1632) by Ascanio Grandi
(1567–1647) have been changed into monsters and are liberated
by the virtuous Tancred.[52]
Armida in Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem
Delivered, 1566–1575, published 1580) is a Saracen sorceress
sent by the infernal senate to sow discord among the Crusaders
Circe the Temptress by
camped before Jerusalem, where she succeeds in changing a
Charles Hermans (c. 1859–
party of them into animals. Planning to assassinate the hero,
1924)
Rinaldo, she falls in love with him instead and creates an
enchanted garden where she holds him a lovesick prisoner who
has forgotten his former identity.[53]
Acrasia in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene, mentioned above, is a seductress of knights
and holds them enchanted in her Bower of Bliss.
Later scholarship has identified elements from the character of both Circe and especially her fellow
enchantress Medea as contributing to the development of the mediaeval legend of Morgan le Fay.[54] In
addition, it has been argued that the fairy Titania in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
(1600) is an inversion of Circe.[55] Titania (daughter of the Titans) was a title by which the sorceress was
known in Classical times. In this case the tables are turned on the character, who is queen of the fairies. She
is made to love an ass after, rather than before, he is transformed into his true animal likeness.
It has further been suggested that John Milton's Mask Presented at
Ludlow Castle (1634) is a sequel to Tempe Restored, a masque in
which Circe had figured two years earlier, and that the situation
presented there is a reversal of the Greek myth.[56] At the start of
the masque, the character Comus is described as the son of Circe
by Bacchus, god of wine, and the equal of his mother in
enchantment. He too changes travelers into beastly forms that 'roll
with pleasure in a sensual sty'. Having waylaid the heroine and
immobilized her on an enchanted chair, he stands over her, wand in
hand, and presses on her a magical cup (representing sexual
pleasure and intemperance), which she repeatedly refuses, arguing
for the virtuousness of temperance and chastity.[57] The picture
presented is a mirror image of the Classical story. In place of the
witch who easily seduces the men she meets, a male enchanter is
resisted by female virtue.
William Blake's 1815 watercolour of
Comus and his animal-headed
revellers
In the 20th century, the Circe episode was to be re-evaluated in two
poetic sequels to the Odyssey. In the first of these, Giovanni
Pascoli's L'Ultimo Viaggio (The Last Voyage, 1906), the aging hero
sets out to rediscover the emotions of his youth by retracing his
journey from Troy, only to discover that the island of Eea is deserted. What in his dream of love he had
taken for the roaring of lions and Circe's song was now no more than the sound of the sea-wind in autumnal
oaks (Cantos 16–17).[58]
This melancholy dispelling of illusion is echoed in The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (1938) by Nikos
Kazantzakis. The fresh voyage in search of new meaning to life recorded there grows out of the hero's initial
rejection of his past experiences in the first two sections. The Circe episode is viewed by him as a narrow
escape from death of the spirit: With twisted hands and thighs we rolled on burning sands, / a hanging mess
of hissing vipers glued in sun!... / Farewell the brilliant voyage, ended! Prow and soul / moored in the
muddy port of the contented beast! / O prodigal, much-traveled soul, is this your country? His escape from
this mire of sensuality comes one day when the sight of some fishermen, a mother and her baby enjoying the
simple comforts of food and drink, recalls him to life, its duties and delights.[59] Where the attempt by
Pascoli's hero to recapture the past ended in failure, Kazantzakis' Odysseus, already realising the emptiness
of his experiences, journeys into what he hopes will be a fuller future.
Visual representations
Ancient art
Scenes from the Odyssey are common on Greek pottery, the Circe episode
among them. The two most common representations have Circe surrounded
by the transformed sailors and Odysseus threatening the sorceress with his
sword. In the case of the former, the animals are not always boars but also
include, for instance, the ram, dog and lion on the 6th-century BCE Boston
kylix.[60] Often the transformation is only partial, involving the head and
perhaps a sprouting tail, while the rest of the body is human. In describing
an otherwise obscure 5th-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum
that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig,[61] the
commentator asks in what other way could an artist depict someone
bewitched other than as a man with an animal head.[62] In these scenes Circe
is shown almost invariably stirring the potion with her wand, although the
incident as described in Homer has her use the wand only to bewitch the
sailors after they have refreshed themselves.[63] One exception is the Berlin
amphora on which the seated Circe holds the wand towards a half
transformed man.[64]
In the second scene, Odysseus threatens the sorceress with a drawn sword,
as Homer describes it. However, he is sometimes depicted carrying spears as
well, as in the Athens lekythos,[65] while Homer reports that it was a bow he
had slung over his shoulder.[66] In this episode Circe is generally shown in
flight, and on the Erlangen lekythos can clearly be seen dropping the bowl
Circe on a 490–480 BCE oil
and wand behind her.[67] Two curiously primitive wine bowls incorporate
jar, Athens-National
the Homeric detail of Circe's handloom,[68] at which the men approaching
Archaeological Museum
her palace could hear her singing sweetly as she worked.[69] In the 5thcentury skyphos from Boeotia an apparently crippled Odysseus leans on a
crutch while a woman with negroid features holds out a disproportionately large bowl.[70] In the other, a potbellied hero brandishes a sword while Circe stirs her potion. Both these may depict the scene as represented
in one or other of the comic satyr plays which deal with their encounter. Little remains of these now beyond
a few lines by Aeschylus, Ephippus of Athens and Anaxilas. Other vase paintings from the period suggest
that Odysseus' half-transformed animal-men formed the chorus in place of the usual satyrs.[71] The reason
that it should be a subject of such plays is that wine drinking was often central to their plot. Later writers
were to follow Socrates in interpreting the episode as illustrating the dangers of drunkenness.[72]
Other artefacts depicting the story include the chest of Cypselus described in the travelogue by Pausanias.
Among its many carvings 'there is a grotto and in it a woman sleeping with a man upon a couch. I was of
opinion that they were Odysseus and Circe, basing my view upon the number of the handmaidens in front of
the grotto and upon what they are doing. For the women are four, and they are engaged on the tasks which
Homer mentions in his poetry'.[73] The passage in question describes how one of them 'threw linen covers
over the chairs and spread fine purple fabrics on top. Another drew silver tables up to the chairs, and laid out
golden dishes, while a third mixed sweet honeyed wine in a silver bowl, and served it in golden cups. The
fourth fetched water and lit a roaring fire beneath a huge cauldron'.[74] This suggests a work of considerable
detail, while the Etruscan coffin preserved in Orvieto's archaeological museum has only four figures. 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.[75] A bronze mirror relief in the Fitzwilliam
Museum is also Etruscan and is inscribed with the names of the characters. There a pig is depicted at Circe's
feet, while Odysseus and Elpenor approach her, swords drawn.[76]
Portraits in character
During the 18th century painters began to portray individual actors in scenes from named plays. There was
also a tradition of private performances, with a variety of illustrated works to help with stage properties and
costumes. Among these was Thomas Jefferys' A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and
Modern (1757–72) which included a copperplate engraving of a crowned Circe in loose dress, holding a
goblet aloft in her right hand and a long wand in her left.[77] Evidence of such performances during the
following decades is provided by several portraits in character, of which one of the earliest was the pastel by
Daniel Gardner (1750–1805) of "Miss Elliot as Circe". The artist had been a pupil of both George Romney
and Joshua Reynolds, who themselves were soon to follow his example. On the 1778 engraving based on
Gardner's portrait appear the lines from Milton's Comus: The daughter of the Sun, whose charmed cup /
Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape / And downward fell into a grovelling swine, in compliment to the
charm of this marriageable daughter of a country house. As in the Jefferys' plate, she wears a silver coronet
over tumbled dark hair, with a wand in the right hand and a goblet in the left. In hindsight the frank eyes that
look directly at the viewer and the rosebud mouth are too innocent for the role Miss Elliot is playing.[78]
The subjects of later paintings impersonating Circe have a history of sexual experience behind them, starting
with "Mary Spencer in the character of Circe" by William Caddick, which was exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1780. The subject here was the mistress of the painter George Stubbs.[79] A portrait of "Mrs
Nesbitt as Circe" by Reynolds followed in 1781. Though this lady's past was ambiguous, she had
connections with those in power and was used by the Government as a secret agent. In the painting she is
seated sideways, wearing a white, loose-fitting dress, with a wand in her right hand and a gilded goblet near
her left. A monkey is crouching above her in the branches of a tree and a panther fraternizes with the kitten
on her knee.[80] While the painting undoubtedly alludes to her reputation, it also places itself within the
tradition of dressing up in character.
Soon afterwards, the notorious Emma Hamilton was to raise this to an art form, partly by the aid of George
Romney's many paintings of her impersonations. Romney's preliminary study of Emma's head and
shoulders, at present in the Tate Gallery, with its piled hair, expressive eyes and mouth, is reminiscent of
Samuel Gardener's portrait of Miss Elliot.[81] In the full-length "Lady Hamilton as Circe" at Waddesdon
Manor, she is placed in a wooded landscape with wolves snarling to her left, although the tiger originally
there has now been painted out. Her left arm is raised to cast a spell while the wand points downward in her
right.[82] After Emma moved to Naples and joined Lord Hamilton, she developed what she called her
"Attitudes" into a more public entertainment. Specially designed,
loose-fitting tunics were paired with large shawls or veils as she
posed in such a way as to evoke figures from Classical mythology.
These developed from mere poses, with the audience guessing the
names of the classical characters and scenes that she portrayed, into
small, wordless charades.[83]
The tradition of dressing up in character continued into the following
centuries. One of the photographic series by Julia Margaret
Cameron, a pupil of the painter George Frederic Watts, was of
mythical characters, for whom she used the children of friends and
servants as models. Young Kate Keown sat for the head of "Circe" in
about 1865 and is pictured wearing a grape and vineleaf headdress to
suggest the character's use of wine to bring a change in
George Romney's c. 1782 portrait of
personality.[84] The society portrait photographer Yevonde
Emma Hamilton as Circe. It was
Middleton, also known as Madame Yevonde, was to use a 1935
used to illustrate numerous books,
aristocratic charity ball as the foundation for her own series of
including Wuthering Heights
mythological portraits in colour. Its participants were invited to her
studio afterwards to pose in their costumes. There Baroness Dacre is
pictured as Circe with a leafy headdress about golden ringlets and clasping a large Baroque porcelain
goblet.[85]
A decade earlier, the illustrator Charles Edmund Brock extended into the 20th century what is almost a
pastiche of the 18th-century conversation piece in his "Circe and the Sirens" (1925). In this the Honourable
Edith Chaplin (1878–1959), Marchioness of Londonderry, and her three youngest daughters are pictured in a
garden setting grouped about a large pet goat.[86] Three women painters also produced portraits using the
convention of the sitter in character. The earliest was Beatrice Offor (1864–1920), 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.[87] Mary Cecil Allen was of Australian origin[88] but was
living in the United States at the time "Miss Audrey Stevenson as Circe" was painted (1930). Though only a
head and shoulders sketch, its colouring and execution suggest the sitter's lively personality.[89] Rosemary
Valodon (born 1947), from the same country, painted a series of Australian personalities in her goddess
series. "Margarita Georgiadis as Circe" (1991) is a triptych, the central panel of which portrays an updated,
naked femme fatale reclining in tropical vegetation next to a pig's head.[90]
One painting at least depicts an actress playing the part of Circe. This is Franz von Stuck's striking portrait
of Tilla Durieux as Circe (1913). She played this part in a Viennese revival of Calderon's play in 1912 and
there is a publicity still of her by Isidor Hirsch in which she is draped across a sofa and wearing an elaborate
crown.[91] Her enticing expression and the turn of her head there is almost exactly that of Van Stuck's
enchantress as she holds out the poisoned bowl. It suggests the use of certain posed publicity photos in
creating the same iconic effect as had paintings in the past. A nearly contemporary example was the 1907
photo of Mme Geneviève Vix as Circe in the light opera by Lucien Hillenacher at the Opéra-Comique in
Paris.[92] The posing of the actress and the cropping of the image so as to highlight her luxurious costume
demonstrates its ambition to create an effect that goes beyond the merely theatrical. A later example is the
still of Silvana Mangano in her part as Circe in the 1954 film Ulysses, which is as cunningly posed for
effect.
Musical treatments
Cantata and song
Beside the verse dramas, with their lyrical interludes, on which
many operas were based, there were poetic texts which were set as
secular cantatas. One of the earliest was Alessandro Stradella's La
Circe, in a setting for three voices that bordered on the operatic. It
was first performed at Frascati in 1667 to honour Cardinal Leopoldo
de Medici and contained references to its surroundings. In the
opening recitative, Circe explains that it was her son Telegonus who
founded Frascati. The other characters with whom she enters into
dialogue are the south wind (Zeffiro) and the local river Algido.[93]
Wright Barker's 1889 painting of
In the following century, Antonio Vivaldi's cantata All'ombra di
Circe as musician
sospetto (In the shadow of doubt, RV 678) is set for a single voice
and depicts Circe addressing Ulysses. The countertenor part is
accompanied by flute, harpsichord, cello, and theorbo and features
two recitatives and two arias. The piece is famous for the dialogue created between flute and voice,
conjuring the moment of flirtation before the two become lovers.[94]
The most successful treatment of the Ulysses episode in French was Jean-Baptiste Rousseau's poem Circé
(1703), that was specifically written to be a cantata. The different verse forms employed allow the piece to
be divided by the musicians that set it in order to express a variety of emotions. The poem opens with the
abandoned Circe sitting on a high mountain and mourning the departure of Ulysses. The sorceress then calls
on the infernal gods and makes a terrible sacrifice: A myriad vapours obscure the light, / The stars of the
night interrupt their course, / Astonished rivers retreat to their source / And even Death's god trembles in the
dark. But though the earth is shaken to its core, Love is not to be commanded in this way and the wintery
fields come back to life.[95]
The earliest setting was by Jean-Baptiste Morin in 1706 and was popular for most of the rest of the century.
One of its final moralising minuets, Ce n'est point par effort qu'on aime (Love won't be forced) was often
performed independently and the score reprinted in many song collections. The flautist Michel Blavet
arranged the music for this and the poem's final stanza, Dans les champs que l'Hiver désole (In the fields
that Winter wastes), for two flutes in 174.The new setting of the cantata three years later by Francois Collin
de Blamont was equally successful and made the name of its nineteen-year-old composer. Originally for
voice and bass continuo, it was expanded and considerably revised in 1729, with parts for flute, violin and
viol added.[96] Towards the end of the century, the choral setting by Georges Granges de Fontenelle (1769–
1819) was equally to bring its young composer fame.[97]
Rousseau's poem was also familiar to composers of other nationalities. Set for mezzo-soprano and full
orchestra, it was given almost operatic treatment by the court composer Luigi Cherubini in 1789. Franz
Seydelmann set it for soprano and full orchestra in Dresden in 1787 at the request of the Russian
ambassador to the Saxon Court, Prince Alexander Belosselsky. Although he spoke highly of Seydelmann's
work, it is now judged grandiloquent and banal.[98] The later setting by the Austrian composer Sigismond
von Neukomm for soprano and full orchestra (Op. 4 1810) is better regarded.[99]
Recent treatments of the Circe theme include the Irish composer Gerald Victory's radio cantata Circe 1991
(1973–75), David Gribble's A Threepenny Odyssey, a fifteen-minute cantata for young people which
includes the episode on Circe's Isle, and Malcolm Hayes' Odysseus remembers (2003–04), which includes
parts for Circe, Anticleia and Tiresias. Gerald Humel's song cycle Circe (1998) grew out of his work on his
1993 ballet with Thomas Höft. The latter subsequently wrote seven poems in German featuring Circe's role
as seductress in a new light: here it is to freedom and enlightenment that she tempts her hearers.[100]
Another cycle of Seven Songs for High Voice and Piano (2008) by the American composer Martin
Hennessey includes the poem "Circe's Power" from Louise Glück's Meadowlands (1997).[101]
There have also been treatments of Circe in popular music, in particular the relation of the Odysseus episode
in Friedrich Holländer's song of 1958.[102] In addition, text in Homeric Greek is included in the "Circe's
Island" episode in David Bedford's The Odyssey (1976).[103] This was the ancestor of several later electronic
suites that reference the Odysseus legend, with "Circe" titles among them, having little other programmatic
connection with the myth itself.
Classical ballet and programmatic music
After classical ballet separated from theatrical spectacle into a wordless form in which the story is expressed
solely through movement, the subject of Circe was rarely visited. It figured as the first episode of three with
mythological themes in Les Fêtes Nouvelles (New Shows), staged by Sieur Duplessis le cadet in 1734, but
the work was taken off after its third performance and not revived.[104] The choreographer Antoine Pitrot
also staged Ulysse dans l'isle de Circée, describing it as a ballet sérieux, heroï-pantomime in 1764.[105]
Thereafter there seems to be nothing until the revival of ballet in the 20th century.
In 1963 the American choreographer Martha Graham created her Circe with
a score by Alan Hovhaness. Its theme is psychological, representing the
battle with animal instincts. The beasts portrayed extend beyond swine and
include a goat, a snake, a lion and a deer.[106] The theme has been described
as one of 'highly charged erotic action', although set in 'a world where sexual
frustration is rampant'.[107] In that same decade Rudolf Brucci composed his
Kirka (1967) in Croatia.
There is a Circe episode in John Harbison's Ulysses (Act 1, scene 2, 1983) in
which the song of the enchantress is represented by ondes Martenot and
tuned percussion.[108] After the sailors of Ullyses are transformed into
animals by her spell, a battle of wills follows between Circe and the hero.
Though the men are changed back, Ulysses is charmed by her in his turn. In
1993, a full scale treatment of the story followed in Gerald Humel's two-act
Circe und Odysseus. Also psychological in intent, it represents Circe's
seduction of the restless hero as ultimately unsuccessful. The part played by
the geometrical set in its Berlin production was particularly notable.[109]
Circe enchanting Ulysses in
the 2012 revival of Martha
Graham's Circe
While operas on the subject of Circe did not cease, they were overtaken for a while by the new musical
concept of the symphonic poem which, whilst it does not use a sung text, similarly seeks a union of music
and drama.[110] A number of purely musical works fall into this category from the late 19th century
onwards, of which one of the first was Heinrich von Herzogenberg's Odysseus (Op.16, 1873). A Wagnerian
symphony for large orchestra, dealing with the hero's return from the Trojan war, its third section is titled
"Circe's Gardens" (Die Gärten der Circe).
In the 20th century, Ernst Boehe's cycle Aus Odysseus Fahrten (From Odysseus' Voyage, Op. 6, 1903) was
equally programmatic and included the visit to Circe's Isle (Die Insel der Circe) as its second long section.
After a depiction of the sea voyage, a bass clarinet passage introduces an ensemble of flute, harp and solo
violin over a lightly orchestrated accompaniment, suggesting Circe's seductive attempt to hold Odysseus
back from traveling further.[111] Alan Hovhaness' Circe Symphony (No.18, Op. 204a, 1963) is a late example
of such programmatic writing. It is, in fact, only a slightly changed version of his ballet music of that year,
with the addition of more strings, a second timpanist and celesta.
With the exception of Willem Frederik Bon's prelude for orchestra (1972), most later works have been for a
restricted number of instruments. They include Hendrik de Regt's Circe (Op. 44, 1975) for clarinet, violin
and piano; Christian Manen's Les Enchantements De Circe (Op. 96, 1975) for bassoon and piano; and
Jacques Lenot's Cir(c)é (1986) for oboe d'amore. The German experimental musician Dieter Schnebel's
Circe (1988) is a work for harp, the various sections of which are titled Signale (signals), Säuseln
(whispers), Verlockungen (enticements), Pein (pain), Schläge (strokes) and Umgarnen (snare), which give
some idea of their programmatic intent.
Michael Amann (born 1964) provides notes for his Kirke for voice, violin, piano and percussion (1995). It is
based on four excerpts from Homer's Odyssey and emphasises a variety of vocal uses for the mezzo-soprano
part. He explains that 'the play between the foreseeable (deep structure) and the unexpected (surface) is for
me an analogy of Ulysses (who realises Circe is a sorceress, so that the consequence of her magic is
ineffective) and Odysseus' companions, whom Circe's enchantments take by surprise'.[112] Questioned in an
interview about how this worked in terms of his composition, he explained that this meant disrupting the
musical structure once it was established and that the singer's shift between voice tones, singing and noncommunicative vocalisation equates to the movement from solitude to self-expression.[113] Dominique
Lemaitre's Circé for soprano and eight cellos (1998) is equally programmatic. In it the singer's voice floats
over the instruments, creating much the same the successive emotional effects as those in settings of
Rousseau's poem.[114]
Thea Musgrave's "Circe" for three flutes (1996) was eventually to become the fourth piece in her six-part
Voices from the Ancient World for various combinations of flute and percussion (1998). Her note on these
explains that their purpose is to 'describe some of the personages of ancient Greece' and that Circe was 'the
enchantress who changed men into beasts'.[115] A recent reference is the harpsichordist Fernando De Luca's
Sonata II for viola da gamba titled "Circe's Cave" (L'antro della maga Circe).
Opera
Rolf Riehm wrote an opera with his own libretto based on several texts related to the meeting of Odysseus
and Circe, as told in Homer's Odyssey, by Karoline von Günderrode, Giovanni Pascoli and Isabelle
Eberhardt, illuminating various aspects of the myth. The opera was premiered on 14 September 2014 at the
Oper Frankfurt.[116]
Scientific interpretations
In later Christian opinion, Circe was an abominable witch using miraculous powers to evil ends. When the
existence of witches came to be questioned, she was reinterpreted as a depressive suffering from
delusions.[117]
In botany, the Circaea are plants belonging to the enchanter's nightshade genus. The name was given by
botanists in the late 16th century in the belief that this was the herb used by Circe to charm Odysseus'
companions.[118] Medical historians have speculated that the transformation to pigs was not intended
literally but refers to anticholinergic intoxication with the plant Datura stramonium.[119] Symptoms include
amnesia, hallucinations, and delusions. The description of "moly" fits the snowdrop, a flower that contains
galantamine, which is a long lasting anticholinesterase and can therefore counteract anticholinergics that are
introduced to the body after it has been consumed.[119]
Other influence
The gens Mamilia – described by Titus Livius as one of the most distinguished families of Latium[120][121] –
claimed descent from Mamilia, a granddaughter of Odysseus and Circe through Telegonus. One of the most
well known of them was Octavius Mamilius (died 498 BCE), princeps of Tusculum and son-in-law of
Lucius Tarquinius Superbus the seventh and last king of Rome.
Linnaeus named a genus of the Venus clams (Veneridae) after Circe in 1778 (species Circe
scripta (Linnaeus, 1758) and others).[122]
Her name has been given to 34 Circe, a large, dark main-belt asteroid first sighted in 1855.
There are a variety of chess variants named Circe in which captured pieces are reborn on their
starting positions. The rules for this were formulated in 1968.
The Circe effect, coined by the enzymologist William Jencks, refers to a scenario where an
enzyme lures its substrate towards it through electrostatic forces exhibited by the enzyme
molecule before transforming it into a product. Where this takes place, the catalytic velocity
(rate of reaction) of the enzyme may be significantly faster than that of others.[123]
In popular culture
See also
Nostalgie de la boue
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24. The original and its English translation is available online (http://www.tomaszahora.org/Cantus
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25. Much of the information that follows can be found discussed in Brigitte Urbani, Vaut-il "mieux
mille fois être ânes qu'être hommes"? Quelques réécritures de La Circe de Giovan Battista
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u/l/la_fontaine/jean_de/fables/book12.html#book12.1). ebooks.adelaide.edu.au.
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UoIAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA233&ots=A2clHXZYnt&dq=%22Head%2C%20face%20and%20memb
ers%20bristle%20into%20swine%22&pg=PA233#v=onepage&q=%22Head,%20face%20an
d%20members%20bristle%20into%20swine%22&f=false).
30. Vignettes in Rhyme and other verses, US edition 1880, pp. 206–10 (https://archive.org/stream/
vignettesinrhyme00dobsuoft#page/206/mode/2up/).
31. Matthew Arnold, The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems, London 1849, pp. 11–27 (http://www.
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32. M. G. Sundell, "Story and Context in "The Strayed Reveller", Victorian Poetry 3.3, West
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33. Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates Book I, 3.7 (http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Memorabilia.html).
34. "Alciato at Glasgow: Emblem: Cavendum à meretricibus" (http://www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk/a
lciato/emblem.php?id=A46a016). www.emblems.arts.gla.ac.uk.
35. "Whitney 82" (https://www.mun.ca/alciato/whit/w082.html). www.mun.ca.
36. The text is at Online Literature (http://www.online-literature.com/james_joyce/ulysses/15).
37. French text online (http://www.mediterranees.net/mythes/ulysse/epreuves/circe/glatigny.html).
38. French text online (http://www.mediterranees.net/mythes/ulysse/epreuves/circe/menard.html).
39. A Victorian Anthology (http://www.bartleby.com/246/757.html) 1837–95.
40. "T.S. Eliot's 'Harvard Advocate' Poems" (http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/tseliot/works/
poems/eliot-harvard-poems.html). world.std.com.
41. James E. Miller Jnr, T.S. Eliot: The Making Of An American Poet, Pennsylvania State
University 2005, p. 71 (https://books.google.com/books?id=Aq-lfNXrIDAC&lpg=PA71&ots=XQ
C16Ht7Cw&dq=%22Circe%22%20%20T.S.Eliot&pg=PA71#v=onepage&q=%22Circe%22%2
0%20T.S.Eliot&f=false).
42. The whole text can be read on PoemHunter (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/circe).
43. Christine Sutphin, The representation of women's heterosexual desire in Augusta Webster's
"Circe" and "Medea in Athens", Women's Writing 5.3, 1998, pp. 373–93.
44. The Path of Dreams, p. 54 (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27024/27024-h/27024-h.htm#Page_
54).
45. Hymen, pp. 21–22 (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/doolittle/hymen/1921-circe.html).
46. The World's Wife, London 1999; the text is on the Porkopolis website (http://www.porkopolis.or
g/library/pig-poetry/carol-ann-duffy).
47. Painting and poem are juxtaposed on the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood site (http://preraphaelitesi
sterhood.com/the-wine-of-circe-by-edward-burne-jones-poem-by-dante-gabriel-rossetti); the
letter to Barbara Bodichon is quoted on the Rossetti Archive site (http://www.rossettiarchive.or
g/docs/24-1869.raw.html).
48. A Late Picking – poems 1965–74, quoted in the Australian Poetry Library (http://www.poetrylibr
ary.edu.au/poets/hope-a-d/circe-0417019).
49. Selected Poems, Boston 1976 pp. 201–23 (https://books.google.com/books?id=Vv2dfKp74sA
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50. Jane Polden, Regeneration: Journey Through the Mid-Life Crisis, London 2002, pp. 124–28 (ht
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Macneice%2C%20%22Circe%22&f=false); "Ulysses is of course one more surrogate for the
poet", Bruce Michelson, Lowell Versus Lowell, Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1983, pp. 22–
39 (http://www.vqronline.org/essay/lowell-versus-lowell).
51. There is a translation on the Gutenberg website (http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/615/pg
615.html).
52. Merritt Y. Hughes, Spenser's Acrasia and the Circe of the Renaissance, Journal of the History
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ents)
53. Edward Fairfax's 1600 translation is available at the Gutenberg website (http://www.gutenberg.
org/cache/epub/392/pg392.html).
54. Shearer, John Christopher (2017). Masks of the Dark Goddess in Arthurian Literature: Origin
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56. John G. Demaray, "Milton's Comus: The Sequel to a Masque of Circe," Huntington Library
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84. Victoria and Albert Museum (http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/16773).
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93. The entire score can be downloaded from Sarge Gerbode's site (http://musickshandmade.co
m/lute/gerbodes/index/La%20Circe/page:1/sort:source/direction:asc) Archived (https://archive.t
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94. There is a performance on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsG1mSNHOg0); the
score is also available online (https://archive.org/stream/imslp-di-sospetto-rv-678-vivaldi-antoni
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96. Details are on the Philidor site (http://philidor3.cmbv.fr/Parcourir/Oeuvres/COLIN-DE-BLAMON
T-Francois-1690-1760-CIRCE-1725-cantate-francaise) and there is a performance on
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03. Track 9, available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=UG&feature=related&hl=e
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