In Homer's "Odyssey", an 8th-century BC sequel to his Trojan War epic "Iliad", Circe is initially described as a beautiful goddess living in a palace isolated in the midst of a dense wood on her island of Aeaea. Around her home prowl strangely docile lions and wolves. She lures any who land on the island to her home with her lovely singing while weaving on an enormous loom, but later drugs them so that they change shape. One of her Homeric epithets is "polypharmakos", "knowing many drugs or charms".