Editing Circus (section)

==Etymology==
First attested in English fourteenth century, the word "circus" derives from [[Latin]] {{Lang|la|circus}},<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dcircus circus],
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', on Perseus</ref> which is the [[romanization]] of the [[Greek language|Greek]] {{Lang|grc|κίρκος|italic=no}} ({{Lang|grc-latn|kirkos}}), itself a [[metathesis (linguistics)|metathesis]] of the [[Homeric Greek]] {{Lang|grc|κρίκος|italic=no}} ({{Lang|grc-latn|krikos}}), meaning "circle" or "ring".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dkri%2Fkos krikos], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> In the book {{Lang|la|[[De Spectaculis]]}}, early Christian writer [[Tertullian]] claimed that the first circus games were staged by the goddess [[Circe]] in honor of her father [[Helios]], the Sun God.<ref>{{cite book|last=Tertullian|first=Septimus Florens|title=De spectaculis|type=Latin text with English translation|translator=[[Terrot R. Glover|Terrot Reaveley Glover]]|year=1931|publisher=Loeb Classical Library|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}</ref>