"Circe," Wright Barker (ca. 1900). See Odyssey 10.210ff.

CIRCE: her arts are evidently sensual pleasure, a bestializing bewitchment, overcome, in Odysseus' case, by the forewarning of Hermes, himself a god of trickery and of luck. Here she is shown with men she has transformed into beasts.

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