\paperw2700 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \up2 \cf7 Sailing onward with a broken heart, \b \cf15 \ATXht12100 Ulysses\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 reached the island of \b \cf15 \ATXht10109 Aeaea\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , the home of \b \cf15 \ATXht113 Circe\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 , a sorceress whose habit it was to turn all those who came to visit her into animals. Several of his companions were turned into pigs, but Ulysses, with the aid of \b \cf15 \ATXht12 Hermes\b0 \ATXht0 ,\cf7 broke the enchantment and made the sorceress submit. He remained as a guest in her palace for a year. Before going back to sea and on Circe's advice, the hero decided to descend into \b \cf15 \ATXht10800 Hades\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0
, the subterranean world of the dead, in order to question the shade of the prophet \b \cf15 \ATXht12012 Teiresias\b0 \cf7 \ATXht0 about the fate of his voyage.
