Los compañeros de Ulysses en puercos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Los compañeros de Ulysses en puercos
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Aeaea; Italy
Description: This engraving illustrates the companions of Ulysses being transformed into pigs. The companions of Ulysses had been welcomed into Circe’s courts, until they realized that Circe had put a potion in their drinking vessels which turned them all into hogs, as illustrated in the engraving. There is one man who is being touched on the head with Circe’s magic wand, and his head is already mid-transformation. There is one man in the engraving, Eurylochus, who is not transforming, as he did not drink anything. He was able to run back to Ulysses to explain what Circe had done.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11871
Language: spa
Source Name: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
Parent Collection: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)
Image: mta_11871_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Ulysses; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Transformation; Circe