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The myth of Circe and Odysseus has been told, interpreted and retold from Homer's time to the present. This thesis begins with a detailed study of Homer's balancing of positive and negative elements of the myth and argues that Homer's Circe is connected with age-old traditions of goddess worship, particularly of Artemis of Ephesus. Chapters III and IV investigate the cultural context in which the purely negative Circe of the Homeric allegorists developed and how this allegorical Circe affected works by other ancient writers, particularly Virgil and Ovid. Later chapters demonstrate how this negative allegorical view of Circe prevailed through the Renaissance and seventeenth century, as evidenced in mythographies, Calderon's plays and by Spenser's Acrasia. The study concludes that allegorical interpretations of the Circe myth were founded on body-soul dualism, so that not until this belief is questioned and abandoned by Joyce and Atwood in the twentieth century are more original and/or positive Circes found.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, June, 2007. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor University, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-284).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-204).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of German, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves vii-xxiii).

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-275) and index.

Thesis--John Hopkins University. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [3]-5).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago. / "Bibliographie": p. v-x. Includes bibliographical references and index.