Circe was a goddess or sorceress in Greek mythology.
Circe or Circé may also refer to:
Places
edit- Mount Circe, a mountain peak in Antarctica
- 34 Circe, a large, main-belt asteroid
- Dome C, also known as Dome Circe, a summit or dome of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Books, theatre and film
edit- Circe (comics) a DC comics character
- Circe (film), a 1964 Argentine film
- Circe (novel), a 2018 novel by Madeline Miller
- "Circe" (Ulysses episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel Ulysses
- La Circe, a 1624 poem by Lope de Vega
- Circé, a machine play by Thomas Corneille
Music
edit- Circé (Desmarets), a 1694 opera by Henri Desmaret
- La Circe (Ziani), a 1665 opera by Pietro Antonio Ziani
- La Circe, a 1668 serenata by Alessandro Stradella
- La Circe (Mysliveček), a 1779 opera by Josef Mysliveček
- La Circe, a 1782 opera by Cimarosa
- La Circe, a 1789 pasticcio by Haydn
Ships
edit- Circe, a Spica class torpedo boat of the Royal Italian Navy
- Circé-class submarine (disambiguation), the name of two classes of submarines of the French Navy
- French ship Circé, various French Navy ships
- HMS Circe, the name of several ships of the British Royal Navy
- USS Circe, the name of two United States Navy ships
Other uses
edit- Circe (bivalve), a genus of venus clams
- Circe chess, a variant of chess
- Hestina nama, a brush-footed butterfly commonly known as the Circe
- Circe, a synonym for Aglantha, a genus of deep-sea hydrozoans
See also
edit- Circe in popular culture
- Surtsey, a volcanic island off the coast of Iceland
- Cersei Lannister, a character in the A Song of Ice and Fire epic fantasy novel series by George R.R. Martin, and its television series Game of Thrones
- Sersi, a character in Marvel Comics
- Sersi (Marvel Cinematic Universe), the film version of the character