Black-figure painting.

Circe / Lekythos Beldam Painter. Greek vase painting, Attic, black-figure painting.

Beldam Painter, 1st Quarter of 5th Century BC. Circe turns the companions of Odysseus into pigs.
Detail: Circe. Height 28.5cm. Inv. 1133. Athens, National Archaeological Museum. ŠAKG/Erich Lessing.

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