Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton) as Circe by George Romney 1782
"Kirke (Circe), a goddess with braided hair, with human speech and with strange powers; baleful Aeetes was her brother, and both were radiant Helios the sun-God's children; their mother was Perse, Okeanos' (Oceanus') daughter."
-Homer, Odyssey 10. 135 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.)
Emma Hart (Lady Hamilton) as Circe by George Romney 1782. Current location: Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild family). |
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