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Dante And Homer Essay Research Paper Dante

Dante And Homer Essay, Research Paper


Dante makes many references to Homer and the Iliad throughout the Inferno. The


fates of favorite characters are described during the course of Dante?s


travels. Beginning with his vision of Homer in Limbo, continuing through


increasingly gory levels of Hell until Dante reaches the eighth bolgia where he


meets Ulysses who is engulfed in fire. Dante?s infatuation with the Iliad is


clearly illustrated in his Divine Comedy. Dante introduces Homer early in the


Inferno. After the writer passes the gates of Hell and safely crosses the


Acheron he is in the most comfortable section of Hell. Homer, along with other


virtuous pagans(those who were not enlightened by Christ?s appearance on


earth) and unbaptised children are there. Homer is spending eternity with


philosophers, poets, and writers. The first circle has light and a sense of


comfort, two things it doesn?t share with any other level of Hell. The only


torture Homer has to endure is the lack of hope for salvation. Dante?s next


stop (after his confrontation with Minos) is the second circle where the carnal


are relegated. In this circle he meets three main players in Homer?s Iliad,


Paris, Achilles, and Helen. All of the inhabitants

of this circle are swept up


like leaves in a storm, denied the light and reason of God they are eternally


dammed to ride the hurricane like winds around the second circle. Much later in


his journey Dante meets the man who conceived the Trojan Horse. Ulysses is in


the eighth bolgia among his fellow evil counselors. He is is entrapped in a


tongue of flame with his partner in crime, Diomede. The flame comes from one


source but is spilt in two, the split symbolizes the falling-out that must come


in a partnership based in evil. Ulysses is placed in this circle for many


reasons. During the Trojan war he gave birth to the deadly idea that the Achains


build infamous Trojan Horse. He also caused the death of Deidamia, Achilles


lover when he talked Achilles into leaving her to go to Troy. A third reason for


Ulysses banishment deep in Hell is his theft of the statue of Pallas from the


Palladium. Dante?s Inferno encompasses a broad range of literary and political


subjects. The references to the Iliad are a small fraction of the composition,


but they give the reader a solid base of well known characters so they can


better understand the how and why behind Dante?s placement of the


personalities in the various levels of Hell.

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