Place in Homer’s Odyssey

Aeaea

Circè's wooded island

Circè's island, where half the crew spend a while as pigs and the whole company then spends a year feasting. They come back to it once more to bury Elpenor before the last leg of the voyage.

Bonds

• Circè dwells in Aeaea — her hall in the woods

Appears in

• Book X Aeolus, the Laestrigonians, and Circè
• Book XII The Sirens, Scylla, and Charybdis

Scenes

1. Landing at Aeaea — Book X. Survivors land, Odysseus kills stag
2. A Year of Feasting — Book X. Odysseus begs Circè’s leave to sail
3. Elpenor’s Plea — Book XI. Elpenor begs burial, oar marker
4. Funeral and Return — Book XII. Crew buries Elpenor, Circè arrives
5. Sighting Thrinacia — Book XII. Odysseus urges crew past lowing herds

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