Circe

Role: witch · First appears: Homer’s Epigrams

Circe is identified as the daughter of Sun and a witch. In The Returns, she marries Telemachus; the same account names Telegonus as her son.

In The Telegony, Circe makes Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and Telegonus immortal, and Telemachus marries her.

Relationship record

Life events

• Telemachus married Circe.(The Returns)
  • With: Telemachus
  • “says that Telemachus afterwards married Circe”
• Circe makes Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, and Telegonus immortal.(The Telegony)
  • With: Odysseus Penelope Telemachus Telegonus
  • “where Circe makes them immortal”
• Telemachus marries Circe.(The Telegony)
  • With: Telemachus
  • “and Telemachus Circe.”

Homer’s Epigrams

• parent: Sun “And you, too, daughter of the Sun, Circe the witch, come and cast cruel spells; hurt both these men and their handiwork.”

The Returns

• married with Telemachus “The Colophonian author of the Returns says that Telemachus afterwards married Circe, while Telegonus the son of Circe correspondingly married Penelope.”
• child: Telegonus “The Colophonian author of the Returns says that Telemachus afterwards married Circe, while Telegonus the son of Circe correspondingly married Penelope.”

The Telegony

• married with Telemachus “and Telemachus Circe.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.