This character's home is where a slip from a ladder results in the death of Elpenor. In the Argonautica, Jason and Medea ask this person to purify them of the murder of Absyrtus. In the Metamorphoses, this woman's affections are spurned by Picus in favor of his wife Canens. A lost epic describes how one of this woman's sons accidentally kills his father with a stingray's tail. Like Pasiphae, she was a daughter of Perse and Helios, though some stories instead call her a daughter of (*) Hecate. This mother of Telegonus loved Glaucus, causing her to turn her rival Scylla into a sea-monster. Only Eurylochus abstains from following Polites into th
This character's home is where a slip from a ladder results in the death of Elpenor. In the Argonautica, Jason and Medea ask this person to purify them of the murder of Absyrtus. In the Metamorphoses, this woman's affections are spurned by Picus in favor of his wife Canens. A lost epic describes how one of this woman's sons accidentally kills his father with a stingray's tail. Like Pasiphae, she was a daughter of Perse and Helios, though some stories instead call her a daughter of (*) Hecate. This mother of Telegonus loved Glaucus, causing her to turn her rival Scylla into a sea-monster. Only Eurylochus abstains from following Polites into this character's palace on Aeaea, where she turns that group of Odysseus's men into swine. For 10 points, name this Greek enchantress.
This character's home is where a slip from a ladder results in the death of Elpenor.
Circe