Time is distorted there so he spends a few years there until he realizes that they have been there too long. Circe then turns his men back into humans after she had turned them into pigs. An argument for this standing could be that Circe is a goddess and could have somehow enchanted Odysseus while he was on the island. A response to this could be that if he really loved her, he would have been able to resist the charms of the goddess and could have left the island sooner to be with Penelope. After they had set sail from the island with advice from Circe they encounter Scylla and