Aeaea

The island of Aeaea was the home of the sorceress Circe. Homer never disclosed the location of the island, but later writers put it in the Tyrrhenian Sea, north of Sicily and southeast of Italy, probably on one of the Aeolian islands.

Circe was a daughter of Helius and Perse, and sister of Aeetes and Pasiphae. She used her magic to turn men into animals of all sorts, when they came into her home. Odysseus, with the help of a moly plant, made himself immune to her magic. She took the hero as her lover, and he lived for three years on the island. According to later myths, Odysseus had Latinus and Telegonus. When Telegonus became a young man, he sought his father, but accidentally killed him. Telegonus returned with Penelope and Telemachus; he married his stepmother, and Circe married Telemachus.