External Conflicts
What is the challenge that Circe’s new life brings her when she is banished and uses her spells to protect her?
Crew of sailors
What seems to be considered the great gift possessed by the gods, but is a curse to our main character?
Her divinity or immortality
Where was Circe and her siblings born?
In the house of Helios
Who did Circe turn into a monster due to jealousy?
Scylla
“That knowledge is not for you. I have seen what will come and I tell you that this infant cannot live. If he does, you will be sorry for it all the rest of your days.”
Athena
Who is the creature that Circe and Daedalus had to trick in order to help Circe’s sister, Pasiphaë?
Scylla
What is something that Pasiphaë suggests to Circe that they both have in common and that their talent of witchcrafts comes from?
Victims of oppression and the men of their families (Anger at being oppressed)
Where was Telemachus born?
Ithaca
Why did Circe cast a spell on her Island so that only gods of the dead may past?
To prevent Athena from killing her son
“And for what? Prometheus is punished anyway. Let me give you some advice. Next time you’re going to defy the gods, do it for a better reason.”
Aeëtes
Which god did Circe try to protect her son and guests from?
Athena
What are things that Circe learns on her Island and from defeating Scylla?
She learns to embrace both her power and the past mistakes that cause her shame.
What is the name of the island that Circe is banished to?
Aiaia
Who was the one that showed Circe she could take a different path in life?
Prometheus
“They would both have run screaming at the first tooth. They cannot bear any pain at all. They are not like us.”
Pasiphaë
Who leaves Circe’s island in order to meet their father, even though a god wishes to strike them down?
Telegonus
What is something that Circe has to accept about her son in order find peace in herself and in between them
That her son is his own person and to accept his decisions in his short life
What is the name of the of the land that King Minos and Pasiphaë rule
Crete
Who else also has a goddess trying to taking to take their child away, other than Circe?
Penelope
“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
Circe
Who ignored, banished, disowned, and disrespected Circe her whole life?
Helios
After being passive for most of her life, hoping her father or some other divine entity would help her, what does she finally learn at the very end of the book?
She learns the most effective way to bring change is to do it yourself rather that relying on others to act for her
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
Whose hall did Pasiphaë return to after Minos died?
Oceanos
Who did Circe convince (threaten) to finally end her exile?
Her father; Helios
“No god can. Their bodies crumble and pass into earth. Their souls turn to cold smoke and fly to the underworld. There they eat nothing and drink nothing and feel no warmth. Everything they reach for slips from their grasp.”
Prometheus