"Circe and Ulysses" published March 1,1931 in the American Weekly Sunday magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Ulysses, the ancient Greek hero, returning from the siege of Troy, landed upon the island of the enchantress Circe. She was the daughter of the Sun, incomparably lovely, and amused herself by turning men into animals. She changed the shipmates of Ulysses into swine, but the God Mercury had given the hero a sprig of magic plant, which enabled him to escape her sourcery. Ulysses was just drawing his sword to slay Circe, when she begged for mercy and turned all the swine back into men.


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