Circe Collection

Odysseus & Tame Animals
Odysseus and his men are amazed by a group of strangely tame wild animals - a lion licks Eurylochuss foot. Circe has cast a spell on them

Advert for William Whiteley, womens underwear 1906
Elegant corset cut very low at the bust and rounded at the hips. 1906

Circe does Magic
doing magic with spirits and serpents

Mae Murray (1885-1965) the American actress, dancer, film producer and screenwriter, born Marie Koenig. Here she is appearing in the silent film Circe The Enchantress'. Date: circa 1925

Circe by Will Dyson
Cartoon by the Australian cartoonist and artist, Will Dyson (1880-1938). Dyson made his name on the Sydney Bulletin and then in London on the Daily Herald where his cartoons during the First World

Great banded grayling, hermit and large wall brown butterfly
Great banded grayling, Brintesia circe 1, hermit, Chazara briseis 2, and large wall brown, Lasiommata maera 3. Satyre sylene, Satyre hermite, Satyre ariane

Great banded grayling, hermit and eastern
Great banded grayling, Brintesia circe, hermit, Chazara briseis, and eastern rock grayling, Hipparchia syriaca butterfly. Handcoloured steel engraving by the Pauquet brothers after an illustration by

Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape by Dossi Dossi (c.1479-1542) - canvas Date: circa 1515

CIRCE DOES MAGIC
Circe, the Mediterranean witch who features in Homers Odyssey, does magic with spirits and serpents

Castlerigg Stone Circe, Keswick, Lake District, Cumbria
The Druids Circle - Keswick, Cumbria - The Castlerigg Stone Circle - one of the most visually impressive prehistoric stone monuments in the United Kingdom

Circa turning men into beasts
Circe, a powerful magician and daughter of the Sun, turns men into beasts, as described in Homers epic poem, The Odyssey. Date: BCE

Circe and Swine
Circe the sorceress turns Odysseus men into swine

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Scylla, a beautiful water nymph, is beloved by Glaucus, but a jealous rival, Circe, will turn her into a monster with six heads, each with three rows of teeth

Picus into Woodpecker
Picus, a Roman forest deity, rejects the offered affection of the witch Circe, so to avenge herself she changes him into a woodpecker

Illustration from Paris Plaisirs number 5, October 1922 Circe et les compagnons d Ulysee by J. Kuhn-Regnier 1922

Illustration, Satyridae -- Hipparchia Circe, Hipparchia Hermione, Hipparchia Briseis, Hipparchia Cordula, Erebia Medusa, Erebia Epiphron, Erebia Aethiops, Erebia Ligea, Melanargia Galathea

Womens Land Army WW1. Somewhat idealised portrait of a Land Girl in hat and smock. Pitchfork over her shoulder. Captioned, National Service Sunshine on the Land Date: Circe 1917

Study for Circe. Solimena, Francesco 1657-1747

Ulysses with Circe
Ulysses in Circes house

Glaucus the Sea-God
Glaucus - fisherman turned into a sea- god by accident - meets the water-nymph Scylla and instantly falls in love with her, but Circe, jealous, turns her into a monster

Circe Makes Pigs
She changes the companions of Odysseus into pigs

Picuss Widow Grieves
When her husband Picus is turned into a magpie by Circe, his widow Canenta has nothing to live for : she is (literally) consumed by grief, haunting his deathplace

Picus into a Magpie
The witch Circe falls enamoured of Picus, son of Saturn; but when he doesn t reciprocate her affections, she transforms him into a magpie (pica)

Odysseus & Circe
Circe the sorceress, with her handmaiden at her side, urges Odysseus (Ulysses) to have a drink from her table. But since she turned his men into pigs. he is reluctant to do so

Scylla into Monster
A nymph beloved by the sea-god Glaucus, she arouses the jealousy of the witch Circe who turns her into a monster, her limbs changing into the heads of dogs !

Odyssey / Circe (Sterrett)
The voyagers examine Circes embroidery

Odyssey / Circe (Smirke)
Odysseus and Circe

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