Why didn't Circe just use polymorph on herself to turn into a giant monster and kick Odysseus's ass?

He takes her away to Kreta, where he turns back and then the fucking commences.

He missed an opportunity to turn her into a cow instead.

>polymorph

Literally didn't exist in classic myth. This isn't fucking D&D you fucking idiot

Because the gods didn't allow Odysseus to get killed.

Then explain how the rest of his human crew ended up as pigs?

>Why didn't he demand some time with Aphrodite?
He isn't Cratos, do doesn't want to mess with Ares

Because she knew specifically how to turn a man into a pig? That is kind of her whole gist, fucking over men and making women the dominating sex.

Circe is sort of a bad example for 'Polymorph doesn't exist' considering her modus operandi.

She tried, but he just declared "αυτό είναι φετίχ μου"

Because fucking Aphrodite wouldn't have given Troy a claim on Sparta.

Not just pigs. Her whole island was full of myriad animals that used to be men.

It wasn't any form of generic magic, though. She used herbs and a wand to turn people into animals, but they were just turned into harmless cattle. No sign that she could turn someone into a dragon or something, or that she had any inherent magical powers.

She had a staff/wand though that she used to actully invoke the transformation.

Why did Best Dad make Icarus get on the glider?

Because he assumed his son wasn't a twat.

>Did Zeus fuck Europa as a bull or as a man?

Yes.

There's at least one novel where Circe tempts him with taking animal forms together and fucking.

But was the power in her or in the wand?

Because being transformed into something other than you were was either a blessing or a curse. It was NEVER a self-empowerment tool, because the human body was sacred to the Greeks. Only the gods themselves could transform their own bodies as well, and while Circe was a demigoddess, she was not a god.

Wrong. she turned the greedy ruler of a country into Charybidis, and she turned the nymph Scylla into the horrifying monster Scylla out of jealousy. The important thing is that she transformed others, never herself. Only the gods could transform themselves.

Wasn't Charybdis a female monster?

Yes, so was the ruler of the foreign country.

Polymorph Self used to be considered a different spell.

She was too scared sonething goes wrong on polymorphing and wouldnt be able to turn back or correct her wrong.

Bullshit. Shapeshift (self) is a prerequisite for Shapeshift Others. God, learn your spell chart already.

She bypassed the prerequisite by beimg the daughter of the goddess of magic, user. Bloodline heritage focus abilities can trump spell prerequisites.

>I AM CIRCE, DAUGHTER OF THE GODS AND MISTRESS OF MAGIC
>c-could you please help me get that wand?
>I hate not having opposable thumbs

Being dead didn't either.

Why didn't Circe just use polymorph on Odysseus to turn him into a little boy and grope his ass?

>what is jokes

>a pairing in which nobody is manly
It's not for the greeks patrician taste.

Because Odysseus wasn't a little boy in deeds and heart. Circe transformed men into a form that reflected their selves. Odysseus's men acted like pigs so they became pigs. presumably the bears and lions they saw on her island had been fierce, savage men.

Actually makes me wonder what Circe would have turned into if her magic HAD been turned against her. Probably some extremely ostentatious bird that struts a lot.

Fucking Clerical Magic and it's bullshit no-prerequisite rule.

Except aren't most birds that strut like that male?

Why didn't Circe just use polymorph on HERSELF to turn into a little boy? I'm sure that would have made Odysseus like her more.

I never heard versions of the Scylla or Charybidis myths where Circe did it, I always remember it being one of the gods.

>Odysseus steals the wand
>The Odyssey just becomes one giant power trip
I don't know, i feel like it would be really boring unless it was your fetish

I mean, they live together and fuck for quite a while, I don't think she needs to make it weird.

>Odysseus steals the wand
>immediately uses it to turn himself into Circe
>nobody is the wiser

I dunno, daughter of a titan and a nymph. She's pretty much a god. Just not an Olympian.

>A similar story is found in Hyginus, according to whom Scylla was loved by Glaucus, but Glaucus himself was also loved by the sorceress Circe. While Scylla was bathing in the sea, the jealous Circe poured a potion into the sea water which caused Scylla to transform into a monster with four eyes and six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of 12 tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail, while four to six dog-heads ringed her waist. In this form, she attacked the ships of passing sailors, seizing one of the crew with each of her heads. (The Aenid)

>According to Ovid,[16] the fisherman-turned-sea-god Glaucus fell in love with the beautiful Scylla, but she was repulsed by his fishy tail and fled onto the land where he could not follow. When he went to Circe to ask for a love potion to win her, the sorceress herself fell in love with him. Meeting with no success, she prepared a vial of poison and poured it in the sea-pool where her rival bathed, turning her into a thing of terror even to herself. (Ovid)

The Scylla reference is one of those 'possible myths' mentioned in William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. His retellings and translations tend to be suspect.

>Odysseus lives on the island and just turns Circe into whatever monstergirl he's in the mood for

That must have sucked for Scylla.

>No sign that she could turn someone into a dragon or something, or that she had any inherent magical powers.

She's a goddess nigga.

Also, she transformed two people into monsters - Scylla and Charybdis

so like, was her mind fucked with too? or does she just eat people because she's upset?

>does she just eat people because she's upset?

If you were permanently transformed from a super-hot chick into a giant multi-headed reptile monster, wouldn't you be really really upset too?

I can't even find a reference to Charybdis being transformed by Circe. There's one about her being a daughter of Poseidon that got cursed by Zeus, though.

Sorry, the Charybidis story is in William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. His retellings and translations tend to be suspect; he was big on the cultural appropriateions the Greeks and Romans did, and had a thing for the triple goddess, often creating connections betwene goddesses that made very little sense (the Persephone myth, for instance, he associated Hecate with the virgin Goddess figure, Persephone for the nymph-marriagable, and Ceres as the Crone, completely misaligningb their typical faiths).

He was desperate to try and fit things into the still completely unknown mystery cults of Ceres and Dionysus..

So basically there's no actual myth about Charybdis being a vain mortal queen who got cursed?

Keep your degenerate fucking fetishes to yourself and out of classical myth

Yeah, their cup already runneth over.

Why didn't Circe just turn Odysseus and his men into girls?

>classical myth
>not being full of degenerate fetishes

Because she was being ironic.

"Oh look your men are acting like pigs so they all turned into pigs how funny."

Gods are pretty heavy handed with their messages.

Kratos*
And ares doesn't give a fuck about aphrodite, her husband is hephaestus

Yeah, but Ares is banging her anyway.

>while four to six dog-heads ringed her waist.
Well which was it four, or six? Did the amound change on a day to day basis?

Yes. They ate each other and then regenerated.

I'm sure everyone bangs her, but only her husband would actually care about her.

Subtle for them is raping you as a swan

>you may nut on her face and she callso you daddy but Im cuddling with her so whos the real winner?

Hephaestus didn't take it that well.

He tied them in an invisible net, and displayed their adultery for all to laugh at. They were only let out because Poseidon convinced Ares to pay the fine for adultery, and Hephaestus got his bride price back from Zeus, effectively divorcing Aphrodite.

You obviously haven't heard about him trapping Aphrodite and Apollo in a net together when she was cheating on him.

>Though married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite’s promiscuity through Helios, the all-seeing Sun, and planned a trap during one of their trysts. While Aphrodite and Ares lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible and dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution.

>However, the gods laughed at the sight of these naked lovers, and Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterer's fine. Hephaestus states in The Odyssey that he would return Aphrodite to her father and demand back his bride price.

this user knows. Pay attention.

she doesn't transform herself you fucking retard

> Keep your degenerate fucking fetishes to yourself and out of classical myth
pfffft
Zeus pls

The better question is: Why is Aphrodite such a fucking cheating whore?

source?

LITERALLY IN THE FUCKING PICTURE, HOLY SHIT

>Tartarus
>No Border denotes God or Mortal
>has child with Gaia.
I thought that was a place? (where all the titans got locked up)

Please explain.

Not all of us are able to read moonrunes

>not expecting the iq to drop when porn is posted

LITERALLY THERE IN ENGLISH

All I see is 'goddess hlic(?) NTR show'

Here's what I get

...

Oh thank you then

Can be both for the greeks - see Plato's Ideas.

Gaia for example is both the Earth, and mother earth. You walk on her, but she can also totally fuck and have kids. Tartarus is a deep dark realm where the Titans were banished, but is also a god.

Yes he was a place.

The first generation of deities, the protogenoi, were both gods and more conceptual things.

Gaia was both the Earth Mother, and the Earth itself. Ouranous was the Sky Father and the Heavens.
And Tartarus was both the god of the most deep place, and the pit itself.

What defines a titan exactly? If their parents were Gods, and their children were gods
Hyperion in a whole line of titans and monsters is the only God among siblings.

>Also Atlas NOT a titan?
Typo? Or Mind Blown?

It's a difficult line. Mythologies vary, so you'll get different parentage and such, but basically:

The Titans were the second generation of Greek gods, after the Protogenoi. They ruled during the Golden Age, and generally things were pretty good.

It's just that the whole thing was kind of a mess as well, due to how they got into power. (Castration, betrayal, and curses)

Fun fact: Technically Aphrodite would be more properly counted among the ranks of the Titans, since she was spawned from Ouranous' balls after he was castrated.

Maybe Circe DID use her magic on herself? Maybe she wasn't actually a hot goddess? Ever think about that?

fucking shitty Genzoman

... and she would achieve what with that?
The entire idea was to seduce him. Since Greeks were paranoid about women gaining an edge over them due to sexual favour, it fits the culture even further.

I mean just recall EVERY. Single. Fucking. Woman in Odyssey that is not Penelope or Odyss mother.

yeah, monstergirls were as fuckig far from greek fetishes as you could get

Man, Circe is one mean bitch.

greek mythology is mean girls dot jpg

>Get in loser, we're going on an odyssey