Circe is a beautiful sorceress. She is mostly know for the ability or power to turn men into animals. She mostly turned men into pigs, also called swine, lions, or wolves. She only turned them into animals when they came to her island.
Circe wasn't a goddess she was a sorceress who lived on the island Aeaea and turned any men who came to her island into pigs until Odysseus stopped her with the help of the god Hermes.
Circe is known as an echantress. She was born from Hecate and the Sun, and she lured sailors to her island and turned them into pigs after making love to them.