Polytes

Family: Ulysses' crew · Role: companion · First appears: Fable 106

Life events

• Circe transforms Macareus, Polytes, Elpenor, and their companions into swine.(Fable106 · 📍 isle of Circe)
  • With: Circe Macareus Elpenor
  • “Soon as, in our thirst, we quaffed them with parching mouth, and the ruthless Goddess, with her wand, touched the extremity of our hair (I am both ashamed, and {yet} I will tell of it), I began to grow rough with bristles, and no longer to be able to speak; and, instead of words, to utter a harsh noise, and to grovel on the ground with all my face.”
• Circe reverses the enchantment and restores the transformed companions to human form.(Fable106 · 📍 isle of Circe)
  • With: Circe Ulysses Macareus Elpenor
  • “The longer she chaunts them, the more erect are we raised from the ground; and the bristles fall off, and the fissure leaves our cloven feet; our shoulders return; our arms become attached[27] to their upper parts.”

Fable 106

• with Macareus (Companions on the expedition.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe.”
• with Eurylochus (Companions on the expedition.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe.”
• with Elpenor (Companions on the expedition.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe.”
• with Circe (Polytes was among the companions received at Circe's abode and subjected to her enchantment.) “By lot were we chosen; that lot sent both me and the faithful Polytes, and Eurylochus, and Elpenor, too much addicted[23] to wine, and twice nine[24] companions, to the walls of Circe. Soon as we reached them, and stood at the threshold of her abode; a thousand wolves, and bears and lionesses mixed with the wolves, created fear through meeting them; but not one {of them} needed to be feared, and not one was there to make a wound on our bodies.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.