Transformations of CirceBeginning with a detailed study of Homer's balance of negative and positive elements in the Circe Odysseus myth, Judith Yarnall employs text and illustrations to demonstrate how Homer's Circe is connected with age old traditions of goddess worship. She then examines how the image of a one sided "witch," who first appeared in the commentary of Homer's allegorical interpreters, proved remarkably persistent, influencing Virgil and Ovid. Yarnall concludes