Odysseus and Circe's Enchantment

In Homer's Odyssey, Circe is initially described as a beautiful goddess living in a palace isolated

in the midst of a dense wood on her island of Aeaea. Around her home prowl strangely

docile lions and wolves. She lures any who land on the island to her home with

her lovely singing while weaving on an enormous loom, but later drugs them so that they

change shape Circe invites the hero Odysseus' crew to a feast of familiar food,

a pottage of cheese and meal, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but also mixed with

one of her magical potions that turns them into swine. Only Eurylochus, who suspects treachery,

does not go in. He escapes to warn Odysseus and the others who have remained with the