![]() She suffers the pangs of isolation until Aeetes, her youngest brother, is born. Her siblings always mock her and never allow her to get intimate with them. 1.2 Circe’s Alienated ChildhoodĬirce spends most of her childhood in loneliness. She is despised by her divine family and, in fact, a misfit in the house of the gods. ![]() Since her birth, she is unable to capture the attention of her parents and siblings. Besides, Circe’s has an impotent and whimpering temperament which further makes her an embarrassment to her family. Still, many see her and invariably make fun of her. To keep her out of the sight of people, Circe’s father banishes her to the underground halls of his palace. Her father is extremely disappointed by her physical appearance. She is absolutely unlike other gods and, with her hawkish nose and yellow eyes, looks strange among them. Neither mighty like her father nor viciously bewitching like her mother, she is an extremely odd child with a human voice grating to the ears of the gods. Circe is a daughter of the god of sun, Helios, and the Oceanid nymph, Perse. ![]()
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