http://www.joseacontreras.net/misviajes/reinounido/londres/buckingham_golden_jubilee01.htm

Study of Emma Hart as Circe (1782) by: George Romney
Emma Hart (1765–1815) was a former prostitute. She rose to fame as the wife of the diplomat and antiquarian Sir William Hamilton, and the lover of Admiral Lord Nelson. In this cut-down and unfinished painting she is shown as Circe, the mythological sorceress who enslaved men by turning them into animals. Romney was captivated by Emma’s beauty and sexual attraction, and she became his favourite model. He painted her innumerable times in classical and fanciful disguises. Although Romney was considered to be Joshua Reynolds’s main rival in portraiture, he always longed to be a ‘history’ painter.

Circe 的意思 \'falcon\'，是，太陽神赫利俄斯(Helios)和海中仙女珀耳塞(Perse)的女兒 ，住在Aeaea島上的一幢美麗的宮殿中。她是之前Jason取金羊毛中，提到的 Medea 的姑姑，也是個法力高強的女巫，做壞事的功力好像也不相上下。

Circe 熟知草藥、煉丹、咒語，法力能治癒傷口，洗滌心靈 (所以才在 Medea 的故事中洗滌她殺弟的罪孽.....怎麼洗哇！這神話故事還真神話)。可是她最拿手最聞名的法力卻是把她看不順眼的女人變怪物(像蛇啦)，把男人都變成畜生(大部份變豬)！怪的是還把這些男人變成的畜生全留在身邊，所以囉！粉多描述 Circe 的畫作都是 Circe 被一堆動物圍繞著。

關於 Circe 的故事有四個：

兩個是這位姑娘求愛未遂，把倫家變怪物

(1) Skylla and Glaucus.   Glaucus, a fisherman who became a sea diety by eating a plant; when Glaucus, of whom Circe was enamored, professed his love for the beautiful Sea Nymph Skylla, daughter of the Titan Okeanos, Circe turned Skylla into a serpentine sea monster next to the treacherous whirlpool Charybdis; eventually, Skylla was transformed into a rock;

(2) Picus and Canens. Picus, a sorcerous demi-god, son of Cronos, who spurned her love for that of Canens, daughter of Janus; she turned him into a woodpecker;

兩個跟航海的冒險故事有關

(3) Jason and the Argonauts, fleeing from King Aeetes of Colchis after taking the king\'s daughter, the sorceress Medea, and his Golden Fleece; Circe purified them of the spiritual burden of having murdered Medea\'s brother, Apsyrtus, in order to delay pursuit by the king.

就是前面 Jason 與 Medea 的故事
 
(4) Odysseus, who with his crew were sent into uncharted waters by the wrath of Poseidon while returning home from the Trojan War; when his men were turned into swine by Circe, Odysseus resisted her spell with the help of the moly plant (revealed to him by Hermes), and he finally won Circe\'s heart and his men\'s freedom.

就是另一個著名的希臘英雄奧德修斯(Odysseus)等航海的冒險途經埃埃厄(Aeaea)時，她用藥物和咒語把Odysseus的同伴變成豬，幸而奧德修斯先有 Hermes給他神奇的摩利草保護， Circe 魔法對Odysseus無能為力，他們兩個倒是來了一段浪漫奇緣，奧德修斯同Circe 一道生活了一年之後繼續趕路。

 
Skylla and Glaucus

故事來源於奧維德的《變形記Book XIII~XIV 》(Ovid\'s Metamorphoses)。

話說有一位英俊的漁夫格勞科Glaucus，有天他照例打漁，撈起網子把網內的魚全倒在岸上，在草地上分門別類地挑選。突然間，被他丟到草地上的死魚一個個開始活動，他正看得發呆時，復活的魚扭到河邊跳進水裏游走了。好奇的他覺得一定是草有啥種神奇魔力，索性摘了一些草吞下去。服用後他發現自己無論是外形還是內心都整個變了樣，他的頭髮變成海綠色漂在身後水面，上雙肩變寬了，原來的大腿和子腿變成了魚的尾巴，化成人魚加入海底王國成為一份子。 

Glaucus and Scylla by: Laurent de La Hyre, French, about 1640 - 1644

Laurent de La Hyre 從奧維德的變形記得來的靈感，代表圖畫了一個浪漫的場景，Glaucus 故做帥帥的姿勢優雅的從海上升起，撥開他白色的鬍鬚，揭示了丘比特射中他胸膛的箭傷.......OUCH .... 忍不住想幫他配音一下 ；）

http://www.philipresheph.com/demodokos/odyssey/od16a.htm

Circe Poisoning the Sea, 1982
John William Waterhouse
此幅由 Waterhouse 在1892年所畫的 \"Circe invidiosa\"，大概是描劃Circe最有名的一幅。圖中 Circe 在情敵 Scylla 常去洗澡的海邊下毒（哎！想不開，女人何苦為難女人），將這位美麗的海上女神變為可怕的怪獸，讓她遠遠的躲到Messina 海峽的山洞，以捕食船員維生。

Picus and Canens

皮克斯是泰坦神克羅那斯（Cronos）的兒子，也會巫術，善於使用魔藥、咒語咒術。一次瑟西採藥草的途中，遇見了皮克斯（Picus）就愛上了英俊的皮克斯，然而，Picus早已心屬宙斯的歌者女兒坎妮絲（Canens），當場拒絕了她，not imagining what a scorned woman was able to do（不能一竿子打翻一船~女人呀）.........   Circe就把 Picus變成啄木鳥。 

此後，她四周就圍繞著許多野獸，當 Picus的朋友找來了，也全被瑟西變成動物。可憐的 Canens在情人不見後，沉溺在悲傷裡，最後化成淚水消失不見。

http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/Circe.html

這位美麗的魔女瑟茜(Circe) 最廣為人知的故事是記錄在十七世紀英國詩人約翰‧米爾頓(John Milton)的\"酒宴之神柯穆絲的假面劇\"(The Masque of Comus)裡的一段插曲，將傳奇人物奧德賽(Odysseus)的手下們在展開拜訪魔法島的致命之旅時變成豬群 。

這幅是由法國象徵主義畫家 Gustave-Adolphe Mossa (1883-1971) 於1904年所畫的 \"Circe\"，裡頭她被她的戰利品圍繞著。在一天的工作後，喜歡看到她無聊透頂的神情，最可愛的是那些豬眼神都跟她頂像的。

瑟茜在她島嶼的宮殿等待迷途的水手前來，在給予嘉賓般的款待後，下藥把他們變成野獸。

美國著名插畫家 Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)在1907年為Nathaniel Hawthorne\'s Tanglewood Tales畫的 Circe\'s Palace，描繪著當 Circe 看到 Ulysses和他的船員到來時，著手調製她的藥水。透過上釉，Parrish 在所有它的作品中綻放著了一種純淨、冷光似陰影的藍色，也就是著名的 Parrish blue。在這幅作品就是海的顏色，是不是正映照 circe 的險惡用心？

http://coffeewithpierre.com/?q=node/148

The Sorceress, 1911
John William Waterhouse
Location: Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, England
畫布背後寫著《浮士德》中的句子：
\'These metaphysics of magicians
And necromantic books are heavenly:
Lines, circles, letters and characters:
Ay, these are those that Faustus most desires.
O, what a world of profit and delight,
Of power, of honour, of omnipotence
Is promised to the studious artisan!
All things that move between the quiet poles
Shall be at my command: emperors and kings
Are but obeyed in their several provinces
Nor can they raise the wind nor rend the clouds;
But his dominion that exceeds in this
Stretcheth as far as doth the mind of man.
A sound magician is a mighty god:
Here, Faustus, try thy brains to gain a deity.\'  

Odysseus 在戰後回家的歸途也到Aeaea島上希望能補充食物和水，奧德修先派了先遣隊探索島嶼，但只有一個回來了，他說他們在島上聽到甜美的歌聲由森林峽谷的一處宮殿傳來，然後有粉多野獸前來迎接迎接陌生人。

 
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=81642398

他們受到美麗的女主人熱情的款待，但不久先遣隊開始改變形狀很快的完全轉化為豬，就被女主人趕到豬圈去了。唯一的倖存者 Eurylochos，趕回船並敦促他們立即啟航，而奧德修斯一點也不害怕，他不會坐視與他一起冒險的兄弟受困而自己逃難去。

前去救人的途中，Odysseus巧遇冒充年輕人的神使Hermes，Hermes教他採『moly』可以解 Circe的毒。

The Sorceress Circe  - fresco, Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) (Florence, Palazzo Salvati)
Circe is better known in Book 10 of the \"Odyssey\", written in the 8th century BCE, where Homer describes her as having charms that few men could resist, reaffirming her status as a Goddess:
\"In the entrance way they stayed
To listen here, insider her quiet house
They heard the Goddess Circe
Low she sang
In her beguiling voice, while on her loom
She wore ambrosial fabric sheer and bright
By the craft known to the Goddesses of heaven\".

在這幅 J. W. Waterhouse 1891年的作品 \"Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses\", Circe被描繪成自信、有力的形像，下額高抬睥睨台階下，得意洋洋的拿著魔杖輕點著會使男人喝了變豬的藥酒，從在她椅子背後的一面鏡子看到尤利西斯，這非常有效的給人她居高臨下掌權位寶座的印象。

Edmund Dulac (French, 1882-1953) 在 1910年畫的 Circe，在美麗的床上引誘 Ulysses，端給他一個裝著下了毒酒的華麗金坏，沒料到她的 ex-bf Hermes已警告他，並給了他解毒劑。Dulac 使用鉛筆、水彩和水粉畫給了這幅畫炫人的色彩。

魔藥失效後，害人無數的魔女Circe也沒輒了，只能為自己向尤里西斯求情，而後他們便度過了美好的夜晚，之後又渡過一年。像這樣輕描淡寫的說過去，讓人覺得莞爾，也讓人深深折服於他心唸著嬌妻還能如此忙到不行的功力........~~