<P> Western paintings established a visual iconography for the figure, but also went for inspiration to other stories concerning Circe that appear in Ovid's Metamorphoses . The episodes of Scylla and Picus added the vice of violent jealousy to her bad qualities and made her a figure of fear as well as of desire . Later male interpretations were to take the metamorphoses she inflicted not just as reflecting a temptation to bestiality but as an emasculatory threat . Among women she has been portrayed more sympathetically . </P> <P> In botany the Circaea are plants belonging to the enchanter's nightshade genus . The name was given by botanists in the late 16th century in the belief that this was the herb used by Circe to charm Odysseus' companions . Medical historians have speculated that the transformation to pigs was not intended literally but refers to anticholinergic intoxication with the plant Datura stramonium . Symptoms include amnesia, hallucinations, and delusions . The description of "moly" fits the snowdrop, a flower that contains galantamine, which is a long lasting anticholinesterase and can therefore counteract anticholinergics that are introduced to the body after it has been consumed . </P> <Ul> <Li> The Circe Effect, coined by the enzymologist William Jencks, refers to a scenario where an enzyme lures its substrate towards it through electrostatic forces exhibited by the enzyme molecule before transforming it into a product . Where this takes place, the catalytic velocity (rate of reaction) of the enzyme may be significantly faster than that of others . </Li> <Li> Linnaeus named a genus of the Venus clams (Veneridae) after Circe in 1778 (species Circe scripta (Linnaeus, 1758) and others). </Li> <Li> Her name has been given to 34 Circe, a large, dark main - belt asteroid first sighted in 1855 . </Li> <Li> There are a variety of chess variants named Circe in which captured pieces are reborn on their starting positions . The rules for this were formulated in 1968 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> The Circe Effect, coined by the enzymologist William Jencks, refers to a scenario where an enzyme lures its substrate towards it through electrostatic forces exhibited by the enzyme molecule before transforming it into a product . Where this takes place, the catalytic velocity (rate of reaction) of the enzyme may be significantly faster than that of others . </Li>

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