Belli, Jacques
Jacques Belli, France, (1609-1674) – Odysseus leaves Circe, (17th cent.), sanguine (red iron-oxide) crayon on paper. Belli, also known as Jacques Belly, and Iacomo Belli, was an etcher and painter.
Subject: Circe
Poets and artists who have considered pigs and the goddess Circe
Bhatt, Sujata
Sujata Bhatt, India (b. 1956), poetry includes: Allium Moly and Odysseus. Bhatt is a poet and a native speaker of Gujarati. She currently works as a freelance writer and has translated Gujarati poetry into English for the Penguin Anthology of Contemporary Indian Women Poets.
Bitar, Walid
Walid Bitar, Lebanon/Canadian (b. 1961), poetry includes: The Island Porcile. Bitar is a poet. He attended the University of Toronto before traveling and working in Asia, the Middle East and Europe. From 1990 to 1991, he held a Teaching-Writing Fellowship at the University of Iowa.
Blakely, Diann
Poetic works by Diann Blakely in which pigs are the subject, inspiration, a significant component of the imagery, a thematic form or a symbol.
Blanchard, Jacques
Jacques Blanchard, France, (1600-1638) – Odysseus forcing Circe to return his companions to their human forms, (17th cent.), sanguine (red iron-oxide) crayon on paper. Blanchard or Blanchart, was a French baroque painter best known for his small religious and mythological paintings.
Bray, Salomon de
Salomon de Bray, Netherlands, (1597-1664) – Odysseus and Circe, (c. 1650-55), oil on canvas. Bray was a painter, poet, architect and designer of silverwork. He painted mostly religious, allegorical and mythological scenes, along with portraits, landscapes, and genre pictures.
Brock, Charles Edmund
Charles Edmund Brock, British, (1870-1938) – Circe the Sorceress Turns Odysseus’ Men into Swine, illustration from Stories from the Classics, The Children’s Hour v. 3. New York: Houghton Mifflin (1929).
Broumas, Olga
Greek/U.S., (b. 1949) Circe THE CHARM The fire bites, the fire bites. Bites to the little death. Bites till she comes to nothing. Bites on her own sweet tongue. She goes on. Biting. THE ANTICIPATION They tell me a woman waits, motionless till she’s wooed. I wait spiderlike, effortless … Read more
Buffet, Bernard
Bernard Buffet, French (1928-1999), works include: L’Odyssee – Circé. Buffet was a painter, etcher, lithographer, designer and occasional sculptor.
Campbell, David
David Watt Ian Campbell, Australia, (1915-1979), works include: Circe’s Home for Sailors, Invocation to Circe and The Magic Branch. Campbell published over fifteen volumes of poetry and prose. He also edited the 1966 edition of Australian Poetry and, in 1970, Modern Australian Poetry. He also wrote short stories and translated Russian poetry in a collaborative project with Rosemary Dobson and others.