Minos, The Connoisseur Of Sin: INFERNO, Canto V, Lines 1 - 24
We've walked to the second circle of hell, where the winds of lust howl. But not yet. First, we must meet a connoisseur of sin: Minos. He determines your circle of hell. Not Jesus. Not Satan. But a fi...
2 Des 202029min
An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At The First Four Cantos of INFERNO
Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I look back over the first four cantos of INFERNO with an overview of where we've been and a discussion of the structure of the poem, COMEDY.I'll talk about some of the ar...
29 Nov 202031min
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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 202040min
