Editing Faust, Part Two (section)

===Act II===
[[File:Homunculus Simm Faust.jpg|thumb|Homunculus in the phial. Famulus Wagner and Mephistopheles (1899), engraving by Franz Xaver Simm]]
Mephistopheles transports the unconscious Faust into his old study. Mephistopheles, donning Faust's robe once again, resumes his conversation with the freshman, who is now a cynical baccalaureus. The [[Homunculus]], an artificial human being created by Wagner, Faust's former famulus, by means of an alchemical process, leads Faust and [[Mephistopheles]] to the "Classical [[Walpurgisnacht]]", where they encounter gods and monsters from Greek [[Classical antiquity|antiquity]]. Faust, still searching for Helen, is led by the sybil [[Manto (mythology)|Manto]] into the Underworld. Mephistopheles, meanwhile, meets the Phorkyads or Phorcydes (another name for the [[Graeae]]), three hideous hags who share one tooth and one eye between them, and he disguises himself as one of them. Guided by the sea-god [[Proteus]], the Homunculus is initiated into the process of becoming fully human, but his glass flask shatters, and he dies.