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Sample ## Take a look inside CIRCE A Dramatic Fantasy by Isaac Flagg With a Frontispiece by Bernard Maybeck Copyright 1915 By Isaac Flagg Acting Rights Reserved To Mabel Lammé Hays Rarest of enchantment deem The beginning and the end: At life’s morning in the dream, At life’s evening in the friend. PRINTED AND BOUND BY THE ROYCROFTERS EAST AURORA, NEW YORK THE ARGUMENT Homer relates that Ulysses, king of Ithaca in Greece, sailing homeward after the capture of Troy, drifted into unknown seas in consequence of the wrath of Neptune; and after losing all but one of his twelve ships, landed with the sole remaining vessel upon the island of the enchantress Circe, who transformed one-half of his ship’s company, twenty-two in number, into swine. He relates further that Ulysses, apprised by Mercury of the fate of his companions, and furnished by the god with an antidote for the spells of the sorceress, compelled her to restore his men to their human shape. Thereupon, at the invitation of Circe the rest of the crew join their mates at her palace, where all spend a year in festivity and merry-making before proceeding on their way with precise instructions from the Enchantress regarding the homeward voyage. The experiences of Ulysses and his followers, as described in the Odyssey, immediately previous to their arrival at the Isle of Circe, had been of an extraordinary and alarming character. A number of men had been devoured by Polyphemus the Cyclops in his cave, where he had entrapped a party, the survivors escaping by riding out, clasped under the bellies of his sheep, after they had made the monster drunk and blinded his one eye with a fiery stake. Later, they came to the domain of Æolus, king of the winds, who presented Ulysses with a number of bags holding the… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcreators%2Fvito%2Fworks%2Fcirce) The sample continues in the full work. 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