The power that a priestess invokes is not a material power but a spiritual one. Of course what the priestess says aloud are petitions to a deity whose action is desired. The model for Circe may be a priestess, but in fact she is a goddess. She has no need to petition as she is a goddess and should be able to act like one. The concept of potion is more complex. So a potion is a drink that does something.
There is reality here because there are plenty of substances that can act by bring drunk. Poisons, drugs, and alcohol are all examples. Whether a spell or a potion is involved there are realistically expected actions and ones that are unrealistic. It is in the realm of unrealistic expectation that magic is involved.
These are hoped for actions that would require divine intervention. Originally twigs were woven so a trig, as something that was woven, became a wand. But a wand is used in a transformation ceremony.
When the men are touched by the wand they are transformed to pigs. So the turn can be interpreted as turn into. Evidently herbs were mixed bith butter to form a healing aplication in the Indo-European Culture. Plainly Circe performs what is obviously magic and she seems to need spells, potions, and a wand. But because she is truely a goddess none of these are truely necessary.
Even so Circe has provided a model that is widely followed in art where a witch or a soceress is portrayed. Called the deathbird kirkos or falcon. As the circle, or cirque, she was the fate-spinner, weaver of destinies. Ancient Greek writers spoke of her as Circe of the Braided Tresses because she could manipulate the forces of creation and destruction by knots and braids in her hair.
The isle of Aeaea was a funerary shrine to her; its name is said to come from the grief wail. Associations: Physical love, sorcery, enchantments, procognitive dreams, evil spells, vengeance, dark magick, Witchcraft, and cauldrons.
To ask a question about this topic note the topic Circe and Click here. Answer: She may not have worn anything. Homer describes her only as having braided tresses. She clothed Odysseus in a mantle and a doublet. Does this mean that is what she wore? Or would she have been a more effective enchantress in the nude?
The classical Greeks portrayed her in a chiton like what their women wore, but Minoan garb of vest, girdle, and skirt is more likely. Odysseus lived at a time more closely to the Minoans than to the Classical Greeks. A mantle would be similar to a chiton while the doublet is more like the vest that the Minoan women wore. Circe could have worn northing or anything.
After all she was a goddess and the ruler of her island. Goddesses often wore garments fashioned by Athena. They were not often pictured nude until Praxiteles fashioned his nude Aphrodite, but they have commonly been pictured nude by artists of modern times.
For many years any picture of a nude was immoral unless it was a picture of a god or a goddess. Some of the garments pictured on Minoan ladies in Minoan art are quite elaborate. They were heavily flounced and embroidered. One could conlclude that the garments worn by ordinary people were similar, but this might be a mistake. It might be that these garments represented those worn by a goddess and were only worn by priestesses or women impersonating goddesses.
Of course Circe was a goddess and could easily have worn such garb. As an enchantress Circe might have worn nothing, or perhaps some revealing gossamer gown. But clothes are often an indication of status so as a ruler she might have worn the embroidered girdle and vest, and the heavily flounced skirt. Answer: Yes she did. All deities have the power to foretell the future. She also had the power to transform creatures from one form to another.
She was famous for turning men into swine. Could could also purify people and absolve them from a crime. Answer: There were grammar schools for Greek boys, dancing and music schools for girls, and advanced schools by the Sophists and Philosophers. Answer: I have no picture, but Circe can be identified by her braided hair, wand, and pigs. The wand is a long stick with a butterfly at the end, the symbol of transformation. She was probably a priestess of a religion that worshipped pigs. When she changed a person to a pig she probably converted them to her religion.
For more about pig worship see Maria Gimbutis in the bibliography. Click below for the Menu directory. Answer: Circe demonstrates that when you loose sight of your goal you lose your status as a hero. Answer: Yes. She absolved Medea and Jason of their crimes.
She also poisoned the water so Scylla turned from a maiden to a monster. What is it? It is a computer colorized piece of a black and white woodcut about Artemis bathing off Crete. I carved the woodcut Jan. Answer: The actress Madonna seems to have the power to turn men into slobbering pigs.
It is a matter of a woman using her seductive power to produce an incapacitating effect on a man. The man becomes so focused on sex that he cannot do productive work. They are seemingly suspended in the moment, like animals, who neither think about the past nor plan for the future, as we usually suppose.
Only another drug, a complete antidote p. There the poet paints the poignant contrast between the inside of a creature with its human thoughts and feelings and the non-human form outside e. Both episodes are variations of a widespread folktale about magical, drug-induced forgetfulness, a folktale that scholars have long studied.
Homer has transformed the story of the Lotus-eaters from a piquant folktale into an archetypal story symbolizing the allure of forgetfulness of duty and responsibility. No wonder, then, that Odysseus is eager to get his men away from the Lotus-eaters. Answer: John William Waterhouse — was a classical master also described as a Pre-Raphaelite. He had a fascination for the femme fatale. Question: Does Circe,like all the other Gods and Goddesses, have any items that represent her?
Like Zeus has the eagle and acorn,Hera has the Peocock etc. Answer: No! Territorial goddesses like Circe do not have symbols. Still her symbol may be a hawk. Answer: Good point. But by the time of Homer she seems to have lost that symbol. Circe seems to be a demoted goddess of a previous culture. Some ancient goddesses were demoted to mortality, such as Helen and Ariadne. Answer: In the Odyssey it is described as of polished stone with wide prospect.
One of these plans was that she would not marry until she completed the burial shroud she had been weaving for Odysseus. Odysseus, too, recognizes his dog but knows he cannot show it. He turns away to hide a tear as the old dog dies. Why is odysseus displeased with Penelope?
He goes to Laertes home to alert him of his homecoming. Why does Laertes wear rags and not bathe? He is in such a state of depression and grief that he can find no reason to do so. You just studied 4 terms! What does the beggar disguise symbolize? To test the people of Ithica and to see how they would show hospitality to a beggar. The beggar symbolizes someone of less fortune which is opposite of Odysseus for a reason.
It is some what foreshadowing what will happen to Ithica if someone does not save them. She can come as ANY person or animal or even object, but she chooses Mentes because he represents loyalty and trust. Why does Odysseus sleep with Circe? Why does Odysseus travel to Hades?
Why does Odysseus fail to reveal his identity to Penelope when they are first reunited? Does Penelope really intend to marry one of her suitors? How do Odysseus and Telemachus defeat the suitors? Characters Circe. Previous section Calypso.
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