Aeaea or
Eëa ( or ; ,
Aiaía ) was a
mythological island said to be the home of the sorceress
Circe. In
Homer's
Odyssey,
Odysseus tells
Alcinous that he stayed here for a year on his way home to
Ithaca. The modern Greek scholar
Ioannis Kakridis insists that any attempt at realistic identification is vain, arguing that Homer vaguely located Aeaea somewhere in the eastern part of his world, perhaps near
Colchis, since Circe was the sister of
Aeëtes, king of Colchis, and because the goddess Dawn had her palace there.