Le metamorfosi di Circe: dea, maga e femme fatale

Authors

  • Irene Berti Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/13143

Abstract

The myth of the encounter between Odysseus and Circe, first attested in the Odyssey, was very popular in and after Antiquity, and it inspired poets, artists and philosophers. In most cases, the post-Homeric Circe is transformed from an ambiguous, but fundamentally positive creature, into an increasingly negative one. Starting her “career” as a Homeric goddess, she quickly turns into a witch and into a seducer. This essay focuses on the reception of the figure of Circe in two periods, the Renaissance and the belle époque, during which she enjoyed considerable success, as an enchantress in the former, and as a femme fatale in the latter.

Published

2015-07-21

How to Cite

Berti, I. (2015). Le metamorfosi di Circe: dea, maga e femme fatale. Status Quaestionis, 1(8). https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/13143

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