Briton Rivière - Circe and her Swine

      In Homer’s Odyssey, Circe lives alone on an island. She is skilled, intelligent, self-sufficient. Men arrive at her door expecting hospitality and dominance. Instead, she gives them wine laced with magic and turns them into pigs.

      For centuries, that transformation has been read as punishment, but Circe does not hunt men. They come to her. They enter her space, consume what she offers, assume control. And suddenly they are revealed as what they already are greedy, impulsive, ruled by appetite. The spell doesn’t create the pig. It exposes it.