32+ The Odyssey Circe Odysseus Pictures. Odysseus describes circe's home as overflowing with abundant food and luxury: Handmaids bustled through the halls…one draped the chairs with because circe succeeds in distracting odysseus from his quest, she can be seen as representing the dangers of excess comfort and pleasure.

Odysseus's wanderings and the recovery of his house and kingdom are the central theme of the epic, which also relates how he accomplished the capture of troy by means of the wooden horse. With hermes' help, odysseus resists my powers and then becomes my lover. She answers, in colorful language, that he will die before she lets him leave.

One of these is the sirens.

Final piece made for my university course. Circe turns all of odysseus's men into pigs, and wipes from their memory any motivation of going home. Circe from the odyssey is an enchantress who turns odysseus' crew into pigs. In greek mythology, circe (pronounced /ˈsɜrsiː/;