The final seminar paper focuses on the myth of the witch Circe. The first part of the paper is focusing on the overview of depictions, alongside with social circumstances and literary sources, which contextualize these depictions. The development of depictions started in antiquity, followed by (substantially fewer) medieval depictions and the last longer overview concerns renaissance depictions of the period of the transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period. Circe was depicted in various media with some changes concerning motif emphases. The second part focuses on three depictions of Circe made by the English painter J. W. Waterhouse and their analysis accompanied by an explanation of the phenomenon of femme fatale in the Victorian society.
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