Circe · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

OdysseyClassical · Greek

Enchantress previously encountered by Odysseus, recalled here as having taught him a special binding knot.

When Odysseus heard this he put the lid on the chest and made it fast with a bond that Circe had taught him.

The goddess Calypso kept me with her in her cave, and wanted me to marry her, as did also the cunning Aeaean goddess Circe;

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"‘You will want no guide,’ she answered;

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Enchantress from the Odyssey who fed Odysseus's companions the fruit of the cornel-tree, cited as an example of simple sustenance.

Apples are enough to furnish me food, and millet and barley and vetches and the cheapest of pulse, and an acorn under the ashes, and the fruit of the cornel-tree, with which Homer says Circe feasted the companions of Odysseus, and on which even the greatest beasts hold out, being nourished.

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but pleasure through every sense that man has;

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and besides trying to corrupt men with foods and drinks and the things of love, alike awake and alike asleep.

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On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

Sorceress, daughter of the Sun, worshipped by the colonists of Circeii

What, then — shall Ino be held a goddess, and called Leucothea by the Greeks and Matuta by us, since she is the daughter of Cadmus, while Circe, Pasiphae, and Aeetes, born of Perseis the daughter of Ocean, with the Sun for their father, shall not be held in the number of the gods?

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StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

Mythological sorceress used as an analogy for heresy's degrading effect.

As, then, if a man should become a beast out of a man, like those drugged by Circe, so the one who has kicked against the tradition of the Church and leaped away into the opinions of human heresies has destroyed his being a man of God and his remaining faithful to the Lord.

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The Trojan WomenClassical · Greek

Divine enchantress who transforms men into swine, foretold as one of the perils awaiting Odysseus on his voyage home.

past Cyclops the savage shepherd, and Ligurian Circe who turns men to swine;

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Lectures on the Early History of Institutions19th Century · English

Mythological enchantress invoked as a simile for degenerate colonists within Davis's quoted passage.

or like those who had drunk of Circe’s cup and were turned into very beasts, and yet took such pleasure in their beastly manner of life as they would not return to their shape of men again;

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TheogonyClassical · Greek

A goddess-sorceress, daughter of Helios and Perseis, who bears sons to Odysseus.

And Perseis, the daughter of Ocean, bore to unwearying Helios Circe and Aeetes the king.

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And Circe the daughter of Helius, Hyperion's son, loved steadfast Odysseus and bore Agrius and Latinus who was faultless and strong:

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EpigramsClassical · Greek

A mythic witch, called daughter of the Sun, asked to harm potters and their work.

And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells;

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De SpectaculisLate Antiquity · Latin

Mythological sorceress, daughter of the Sun, credited by some with the circus's origin and etymology.

Those who hold that the spectacle was first exhibited by Circe to the Sun, her father, as they will have it, argue from her also the appellation of the circus.

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MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

The mythological enchantress said to have turned men into swine, invoked by Socrates as a figure for the dangers of indulgence.

I believe, he said in jest, it was by providing a feast of such things that Circe made swine;

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