Deity Greek and Roman
Circe
Κίρκη grc
Enchantress-goddess in Greek mythology
- Child of Hecate, Perse and Helios
- Consort of Telemachus
A god is known
by the accounts
that name it.
Accounts kept apart
Family
The family of Circe
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 24
Kinship in an account 16
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing · shared parentage in every account · descent from the same generation in a single tree
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (father) Aeëtes son of Helios in Greek mythology -
child of (child) Hecate Greek goddess -
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child of (child) Helios Greek god and personification of the Sun - child of (child) Perse Oceanid (one of the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys), and the wife of the Sun god, Helios
- parent of (child) Agrius mythological son of Odysseus and Circe
- parent of (child) Anteias son of Odysseus and Circe
- parent of (child) Cassiphone Greek mythical character, daughter of Odysseus and Circe
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parent of (mother) Latinus king in Greek and Roman mythology - parent of (mother) Phaunos rustic god, rustic god (Georgikos)
- parent of (child) Telegonus mythical son of Circe and Odysseus
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partner of Odysseus legendary Greek king of Ithaca -
partner of (spouse) Telemachus in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, a character from Homer's "Odyssey" - sibling of Aeëtes son of Helios in Greek mythology
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sibling of Pasiphaë daughter of Perse and Helios, the Sun in Greek mythology, queen of Crete - sibling of Perses son of Helios and the Oceanid Perseis
- sibling of Perses ancient Greek mythological Titan
Family 8
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Aeëtes son of Helios in Greek mythology
- parent of (mother) Auson mythical founder of the Ausoni
- parent of (mother) Telegonus mythical son of Circe and Odysseus
- partner of Odysseus legendary Greek king of Ithaca
- sibling of Aeëtes son of Helios in Greek mythology
- sibling of Pasiphaë daughter of Perse and Helios, the Sun in Greek mythology, queen of Crete
- sibling of Perses son of Helios and the Oceanid Perseis
- married to Telemachus in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, a character from Homer's "Odyssey"
Accounts
Where Circe appears
Each work is its own account. Where two disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand.
What this means
Works this figure is recorded as appearing in. Each is an account, not a chapter of one story: where two of them disagree about a parent or a deed, both readings stand and this site keeps the disagreement. The earliest account below is computed from these works, not stated by any source — a fact about which texts this collection holds and when they were written, not a date for the figure, who has none, and not a floor for the tradition, which is older than anything that survives of it.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
17 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 9 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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