Surrounded by nature and beasts under her spell, Circe is still to this day one of the most famous sorceresses in classical literature. She is a key character for Book Ten of Homer’s Odyssey, and she reappears in Pseudo-Apollonius of Rhodes’ Argonautica, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as well as in Virgil’s Aeneid. In each text, she uses her magic and her beauty to transform her victims into beasts, taking away their free will, their virility and their humanity. Odysseus avoids the same fate thanks to Mercury’s intervention, confronts Circe, and frees his men from their porcine appearance.