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An Interpolated Episode: A Look Back At The First Four Cantos of INFERNO
Season 1 Episode 22
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…
5 years, 4 months ago
Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
Season 1 Episode 21
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 …
5 years, 4 months ago
The Great Poets Of Limbo: INFERNO Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
Season 1 Episode 20
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 d…
5 years, 4 months ago
Virgil's (Mis)Understanding Of The Harrowing Of Hell: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 46 - 84
Season 1 Episode 19
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 pla…
5 years, 4 months ago
An Interpolated Episode: Limbo Unraveled
Season 1 Episode 18
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 b…
5 years, 4 months ago
Welcome To Virgil's Home Turf: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Season 1 Episode 17
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 encount…
5 years, 4 months ago
Inferno, Canto IV, Lines 1 - 45
Season 1 Episode 17
Dante the pilgrim and Virgil finally descend to the first circle of hell: Limbo, Virgil's home. The old poet turns pale--but why? (Well, also, how?) …
5 years, 4 months ago
When Crossing Acheronte Into The First Ring Of Hell, Don't Faint: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 109 - 136
Season 1 Episode 16
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 …
5 years, 5 months ago
Charon, The Pagan Ferryman Of The Christian Damned: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 70 - 108
Season 1 Episode 15
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)…
5 years, 5 months ago
Sometimes, You Get The Hell You Want: INFERNO, Canto III, Lines 22 - 69
Season 1 Episode 14
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…
5 years, 5 months ago