The Way Down Is The Way Up: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 70 - 93
We've seen it all. Now we just have to get out. And to do that, we have to make a big turnaround on Virgil's shoulders. Right at Satan's butt.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as we pass the center point in t...
7 Joulu 202234min
Noshing On The Worst Sinners In Hell: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 46 - 69
We've come to our last moments in hell. Here, our pilgrim Dante sees the three worst sinners in human history: Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius.Wait . . . what? Brutus and Cassius. Indeed, being gn...
4 Joulu 202242min
A Brief History Of Satan (Up Until Dante's Vision)
Dante the pilgrim has seen the final vision of INFERNO: Satan, looked in the ice sheet of Cocytus. Perhaps it's wise to step back and think about where this figure of Satan comes from--and how it exis...
30 Marras 202218min
The Three Faces Of Interpretation . . . Or Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 28 - 45
We're about to get a good look at Satan, closer and closer, until we can see the color of his faces. Yes, faces. Three of them. Some trinitarian perversion lies at the center of the universe.Join me, ...
27 Marras 202226min
An Overview Of The Seven Direct Addresses To The Reader In INFERNO
This episode is an interpolated one in the podcast WALKING WITH DANTE. We've just gone beyond the last of the seven direct addresses to the reader in INFERNO. Let's look back over all seven of them to...
23 Marras 202225min
Behold Satan: INFERNO, Canto XXXIV, Lines 1 - 27
We've come to the final revelation of INFERNO, to its climax: the vision of Satan himself, called "Dis" by Virgil (after his own king of the underworld in THE AENEID).The emperor of the kingdom of woe...
20 Marras 202235min
The Zombie Apocalypse: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 118 - 157
We've come to the last sinner who speaks in INFERNO. And his story is as wild as it gets. He claims that once someone violates the guest/host relationship, their soul exits their body and falls into t...
16 Marras 202243min
Virgil Returns For No Reason, Dante The Poet Slips, And More Fun On The Ice Sheet Of Cocytus: INFERNO, Canto XXXIII, Lines 91 - 117
We've slipped on down to the third ring of Cocytus--where we find a few textual problems, more New Testament references, the return of Virgil for no good reason, and a possible slip from our poet. Hey...
13 Marras 202230min
