Prometheus:Ī Titan god who disobeyed Zeus to help mortals, giving them fire and, in some stories, teaching them the arts of civilization as well. Perses:Ĭirce’s brother, associated in some stories with ancient Persia.
In later stories, she was associated with witchcraft herself.
Perse:Īn Oceanid, one of the nymph daughters of Oceanos. She has several children with him, including Ariadne and Phaedra, and also contrives to become pregnant by a sacred white bull, giving birth to the Minotaur. Pasiphae, Circe's sister and Queen of Crete, seated with her monstrous child, the Minotaur.Ĭirce’s sister, a powerful witch who marries Zeus’ mortal son Minos and becomes queen of Crete. Circe has had a long literary life, inspiring writers such as Ovid, James Joyce, Eudora Welty, and Margaret Atwood. In the Odyssey, she turns Odysseus’ men into pigs, but after he challenges her, she takes him as a lover, allowing him and his men to stay with her and aiding them when they depart again. Her name is likely derived from the word for hawk or falcon. Circe:Ī witch who lived on the island of Aiaia, daughter of Helios and the nymph Perse. Having fallen in love with him, she keeps him on her island for seven years, until the gods command her to release him. In the Odyssey, she takes in the shipwrecked Odysseus. Calypso:Ī daughter of the Titan Atlas who dwelt on the island of Ogygia. His brothers were Zephyros (the west wind), Notos (the south wind), and Euros (the east wind). He was responsible, in some myths, for the death of the beautiful youth Hyacinthos. Aeëtes was also the father of the mortal witch Medea, and the keeper of the Golden Fleece, until it was stolen by Jason and the Argonauts with Medea’s help. Aeëtes: Brother of Circe and the sorcerer-king of Colchis, a kingdom on the eastern edge of the Black Sea.
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