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Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, John William Waterhouse

Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses

John William Waterhouse, 1891

Gallery Oldham

The sorceress holds out the drugged cup that turned his men into swine. Ulysses appears only in the mirror behind her throne, which puts the viewer exactly where he stands.

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Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

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