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Did Dante Think The Characters In Classical Poems Were Real?
Season 2 Episode 179
Did Dante think that the characters in Virgil's and Statius's poems were real? Did he believe that the characters who changed shape, being, and even …
10 months ago
You Are What You Eat . . . And Read: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 130 - 145
Season 2 Episode 178
Virgil and Statius begin to trek around the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory but are stopped by an upside-down tree . . . that causes more questions …
10 months, 1 week ago
Going In Circles To Go Forward: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 115 - 129
Season 2 Episode 177
Our pilgrim, Virgil, and Statius arrive on the otherwise empty sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory. Virgil seems more hesitant. And our pilgrim, Dante, …
10 months, 1 week ago
Placing And Misplacing Your Classical Ancestors: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 94 - 114
Season 2 Episode 176
At the end of their first conversation, Virgil and Statius reconstruct limbo. They transform it into a neighborhood where all the lost, classical wri…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Statius, The Closeted Christian: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 76 - 93
Season 2 Episode 175
Statius finally tells Virgil what we all want to know: the story of his conversion. How did this Latin poet who dedicated his great epic to a Roman e…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Virgil, The Damned Christian Missionary: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 55 - 74
Season 2 Episode 174
Given that Statius claims a passage from The Aeneid made him see the error of his ways, Virgil wants to know how this poet of the Thebes could have e…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
An Interpolated Episode: Dante and Irony
Season 2 Episode 173
Since we’ve come to a moment of (perhaps!) profound irony as Statius misquotes and even misinterprets Virgil’s AENEID to find his way to salvation, w…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
The Path To God Is Lined With Misquoted, Misinterpreted Texts: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 25 - 54
Season 2 Episode 172
Statius and Virgil continue their conversation as they climb to the sixth terrace with the pilgrim Dante.
Statius explains that he discovered his erro…
10 months, 4 weeks ago
Virgil Offers Up The First Of Many Misread Texts: PURGATORIO, Canto XXII, Lines 1 - 24
Season 2 Episode 171
Blinded by the angel, Dante the pilgrim begins his climb to the sixth terrace of Mount Purgatory. But his plight is overshadowed by Virgil’s desire t…
11 months ago
A Read-Through Of PURGATORIO, Cantos XXII - XXIV
Season 2 Episode 170
We have been a long time on the terrace of the avaricious (without knowing there's another sin punished there as well). We're ready to climb on up to…
11 months ago