Circe

Good Host

Bad Host

Provides food, shelter, and baths:

after making an oath with Odysseus she doesn’t harm his crew and provides them with baths, food, and lets them stay in her palace

Twisted Xenia:

when Eurylochus’ crew arrive she tricks them, welcoming them in and giving them food which turns them into pigs, she then holds them captive

Lets them stay for a year:

she doesn’t pressure Odysseus to leaving and lets him stay a whole year

Helps them get home:

when they decide to leave she tells them to seek advice from the prophet Teiresias in the underworld