Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
Our pilgrim, Dante, gets to a vantage point where he can look across the "enameled" green to see the crowd gathered in and around Limbo's castle. He then lists off the greats: Trojans, Romans, Caesar,...
25 Marras 202031min
The Great Poets Of Limbo: INFERNO Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
We follow our pilgrim, Dante, into Limbo. He sees four great shades coming toward him: Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. They welcome Virgil back and do something more shocking: They admit Dante to thei...
22 Marras 202030min
Virgil's (Mis)Understanding Of The Harrowing Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 46 - 84
Our pilgrim and Virgil begin to walk across Limbo, surely the largest surface in hell since its the uppermost ring. In fact, it's at first like a plain or maybe a large campo in a medieval Italian tow...
18 Marras 202026min
An Interpolated Episode: Limbo Unraveled
Limbo is the first circle of INFERNO . . . although that statement already presents a problem. How can Limbo be in hell? Isn't it a state somewhere between the redeemed and the damned?Join me, Mark Sc...
15 Marras 202021min
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Along with our pilgrim and Virgil, we take the first steps into the first circle of hell, the "real deal" of INFERNO.As you might imagine, we encounter some difficulties--mostly theological, although ...
14 Marras 202034min
When Crossing Acheronte Into The First Ring Of Hell, Don't Faint: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
We finish canto III of INFERNO, standing on the shores of Acheronte, the river that forms the border of the first rings of inner hell.Charon is busy with this job, Virgil is suddenly gentler, more par...
8 Marras 202040min
Charon, The Pagan Ferryman Of The Christian Damned: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108
We step out of the foyer and enter the second part of Canto III of INFERNO: the part about the storied Charon, the ferryman on Acheronte (or Acheron), as well as the souls waiting to be ferried into h...
4 Marras 202027min
Sometimes, You Get The Hell You Want: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 22 - 69
Our pilgrim, Dante, and his guide, Virgil, walk beyond hell's entrance to encounter, well, the sort of hell we thought we were going to get all along. Maybe not the wasps. But the rest of it? The chao...
1 Marras 202034min
