Circe decides to care for him, and the two become close. When he doesn’t earn a prophecy from Helios, she rejects him, too. After the whipping, Circe and Prometheus have a brief conversation during which he tells her that “Not every god need be the same.” Afterwards, Circe goes to her room and cuts her hand, feeling that she has autonomy for the first time. To begin his torment, Prometheus is whipped by a Fury before an eager crowd of other immortals. Rumors circulate that Prometheus is going to be punished by Zeus because he had given humans fire against Zeus’s orders.
Both are cruel, so Circe avoids them and prefers to sit at Helios’s feet. Perse and Helios have another daughter, Pasiphaë, and a son, Perses. When Circe was born, Perse was disappointed that her child was a girl.
She describes how her mother Perse, a beautiful nymph, enticed Circe’s father Helios, a Titan, to marry her. Circe begins telling her origin story by stating that “the name for what did not exist” when she was born.
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