Circe - Metamorphosis as the Language of the Divine

This study addresses the central ontological paradox of the Circe myth: how the daughter of Helios — the absolute power of vision — resorts to metamorphosis and material pharmakeia to render legible what solar light cannot penetrate, namely the inner essence of the human being. Through systematic analysis of the primary sources (Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Virgil, Ovid), we argue that transformation is not a punitive act but an epistemological one: the transformed body is the text upon which the divine inscribes the truth of the human subject. We further examine the role of pharmakeia as a liminal technique between natural and supernatural knowledge, and the symbolic function of the bond between Circe and Hecate within the register of threshold magic.

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