Scientific interpretations In later Christian opinion, Circe was an abominable witch using miraculous powers to evil ends. When the existence of witches came to be questioned, she was reinterpreted as a depressive suffering from delusions."Disbelieving in Witchcraft: Allori's Melancholic Circe in the Palazzo Salviati," Athanor 22 (2004), pp. 57–65.
Scientific interpretations In later Christian opinion, Circe was an abominable witch using miraculous powers to evil ends. When the existence of witches came to be questioned, she was reinterpreted as a depressive suffering from delusions."Disbelieving in Witchcraft: Allori's Melancholic Circe in the Palazzo Salviati," Athanor 22 (2004), pp. 57–65.