HONOR 2102 Lecture 4: Inferno Canto 26
18 Feb 2017
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Xxvi (26) 8th circle, 7th pouch: the thieves. View of the 8th pouch: fraudulent counselors: sinners clothed in the flames that burn them, dante and virgil looking over bridge. Dante wants to talk to ulysses and diomedes: virgil agrees but must not speak. Ulysses and diomedes in one shared flame: they went as one to rage, so they share the punishment, fraud. Ulysses regrets convincing achilles to abandon deidamia and their son to join the trojan war. Letting aeneas get away after the war. The statue of pallas athena believed to protect troy. 2 promontories ( the pillars of hercules ) was formed at the west end of the. Mediterranean when hercules split a mountain: this marks the farthest boundary of the world, beyond which no man could sail and hope to survive, ulysses crossed these, wanting to explore the world.
