CirceBy: Hayden KandulPd. 6

Overview:

*Circe is best known for her ability to turn men into animals. *She is a witch and an enchantress. *She is the daughter of the sun god Helios. *She is best known for he knowledge of poisonous herbs and magic.

*Circe lives on the island of Aeaea. Aeaea is located off of the western coast of Italy. *Circe could make the heavens dark but hiding the sun or the moon behind clouds. *Because she practiced it witchcraft took Circe as a victim and made her have scary nightly visions, so she was relieved when daylight came. The (Parada) people that came to her palace also hallucinated.

Glaucus & Scylla

Glaucus was a fisherman. One day he was fishing and he caught a bunch of fish & brought them to shore, and laid them on the grass. The fish suddenly came to life and jumped back into the ocean. He wondered what could have done this and tasted some of the grass. He then had the sudden urge to jump into the ocean. The water gods then turned him immortal. He was transformed into a type of merman sea-creature.(BookRags Staff)

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One day Glaucus saw the beautiful water-nymph Scylla. He fell in love with her, but she did not love him back. So he went to the witch/enchantess Circe and he wanted her to give Scylla something that would make her fall in love with him. But Circe loved Glaucus and was mad that he loved someone else. So she told him that she agreed & went and put a poisonous herb into the water where Scylla swam. When Scylla went into it her limbs turned into monsters.

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Family TreeDad Mom

Helios -Odysseus -unknown

Perseis

Circe

Faunus

Telegonus

Agrius

Latinus

Romanus Romus

Anteias

Ardeias

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