The sorceress Circe, enthroned and staring straight out, holds up a cup of potion in one hand and a wand in the other. The viewer stands where Ulysses stands: he appears only in the round mirror behind her, with his ship beyond. At her feet lies one of his crew, already turned into a pig in this scene from Homer's Odyssey.
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A second transformed sailor, now a pig, peers out from behind the throne at left, and the mirror also shows the columns of her palace.
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