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See also: Greek See also: legend, a famous sorceress, the daughter of Helios and the ocean nymph Perse
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Having murdered her See also: husband, the See also: prince of See also: Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her See also: father on the solitary See also: island of Aeaea on the See also: coast of See also: Italy
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She was able by means of drugs and incantations to change human beings into the forms of wolves or lions, and with these beings her palace was surrounded
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Here she was found by Odysseus and his companions; the latter she changed into See also: swine, but the See also: hero, protected by the herb See also: moly (q.v.), which he had received from See also: Hermes, not only forced her to restore them to their See also: original shape, but also gained her love
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For a See also: year he relinquished himself to her endearments, and when he determined to leave, she instructed him how to See also: sail to the See also: land of shades which See also: lay on the See also: verge of the ocean stream, in See also: order to learn his See also: fate from the See also: prophet See also: Teiresias
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Upon his return she also gave him directions for avoiding the dangers of the journey home (See also: Homer, Odyssey, x.–xii.; See also: Hyginus, Fab
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125)
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The See also: Roman poets associated her with the most See also: ancient traditions of See also: Latium, and assigned her a home on the promontory of Circei (Virgil, Aeneid, vii. ro)
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The metamorphoses of Scylla and of See also: Picus, See also: king of the Ausonians, by
See also: Circe, are narrated in Ovid (Metamorphoses, xiv.)
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The Myth of See also: Kirke, by R
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See also: Brown (18&3), in which Circe is explained as a
See also: moon-goddess of Babylonian origin, contains an exhaustive See also: summary of facts, although many of the author's speculations maybe proved untenable (review by H
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Bradley in See also: Academy, See also: January 19, 1884) ; see also J
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E . See also: Harrison, Myths of the Odyssey (1882) ; C
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Seeliger in W
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Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie
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