Circe Chapter 8 Summary

As with the previous chapters this section is told from the first person past tense and is divided into three rough sections. Circe begins telling her origin story by stating that the name for what she is did not exist when she was born.

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The men are pale from their encounter with the dead but the food revives them.

. Chapter seven concerns the beginnings of circes exile as well as her. When Odysseus and his men return Circe and her nymphs greet them with a feast. Hermes has stolen his brother Apollo s lyre and asks if he can hide from him there.

Despite this Circe proves herself a force beyond reckoning powerful and willful enough to successfully stand toe-to-toe with the greater gods to protect her son. As the sun sets Circe pulls. Alke is the nymph daughter of a lesser river god and serving a daughter of Helios.

She describes how her mother Perse a beautiful nymph enticed. I managed to only hit my bad shoulder twice on the walls as I was pulled along maneuvering around so that either my back or other shoulder were rammed instead. Circe is driven to distraction by her loneliness but a nymph named Alke is sent to serve Circe as a punishment.

Chapter 8 Edit Events Circe is digging through her garden at sunset when she is visited by Hermes.

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