Virgil Tibbs

DANTE Human suffering is always a hard subject to describe or experience in life or death. While reading Dante Alighieri poem called “Inferno” it describes the cycles of life and death. The fascinating part of the story is the detail description of hell, and the suffering the souls experience for eternity (Davis, Harrison, Johnson, Smith and Crawford, 2004). The question to answer is “Comment on the view of human suffering. How is it different from the Greek?” Although, Greek stories describe…

Just as the physical world around us changes with time the morals and ethics of the general populace also changes, albiet gradually. The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, written almost 700 years ago, was an important work as it explored the morals and ethics of society in his work, something that was just as uncommmon then as it is now. We know that the physical has changed, but just how much has the metaphysical changed? It is safe to say that the morals and ethics in our society has changed almost…

The poem Metamorphoses, by Ovid, a roman poet, is set in Ancient Greece, at the beginning of time. It is a poem of several greek myths and ideas compacted into one novelistic book. Ovid’s epic was originally written in Latin and later translated into English. In Metamorphoses, Ovid presents love as a large element, to show readers the many emotions and actions love can stir up. Characters strive for love so much, that their logic becomes hazy, making them do things impulsively. In the myths…

On Roman Military Matters was written, according to Lieutenant John Clarke’s translation, in the fifth century by Flavius Vegetius Renatus, better known only as Vegetius. Vegetius wrote to abridge earlier military treatises on the training, organization, and use of the Roman Legions for Emperor Valentinian III and appears to hope that his writings would help to enact changes in the legions that would ultimately lead them to success against the invading Germanic tribes. The abridgments were…

People are able to succeed in a mission by having a single-minded devotion to their goal. Aengus wanted to find the girl he fell in love with. Ernesto Galarza wanted to become an American but still retain his Mexican heritage. Annie Johnson started her own business so that she could support her children and not have others care for them. Aengus wanted to find love while Galarza and Johnson wanted to survive desperate circumstances; however all three shared the ability to endure hardship. Aengus…

During the time that Dante wrote The Divine Comedy, the Catholic Church was very corrupt led by popes that were more interested in making monetary gains rather than being spiritual leaders. One purpose of The Divine Comedy was to express disgust with the Church of the time and to suggest what the reformed Church should look like. One way Dante demonstrates that he intended to present a picture of the ideal Church is by making his final guide Saint Bernard, a “critic of the institutional church…

Virgil’s Foundation Story, The Aeneid, illustrates the virtues of Ancient Roman society. The virtue pietas means that one shows devotion to ones obligations whether it be the gods, family or their city. In Book 2 of The Aeneid the main character, Aeneas, and his family are forced to flee their home in the city of Troy because of a Greek attack. Whilst escaping Aeneas’ father, Anchises show piety to the gods by telling them he “is with [them]” and he will “follow wherever [they] lead [him]”.…

Inferno by Dan Brown was published on May 14, 2013. Inferno is a literary thriller. The basic plot of the novel revolves around Zobrist, an evil genius, and his horrifying plot to drastically reduce the world’s population in order to balance the environment and centers around one of world’s most mysterious literary masterpieces, Dante’s Inferno. The story starts in Florence where a hospitalized Harvard professor Robert Langdon is awoken with a head wound that leaves him unable to recall how or…

describes the sinners and their punishments in this canto is extremely helpful in describing future events as well. The souls in this canto are called the “Suicides,” which obviously means that they were violent against themselves. When Dante and Virgil enter, unlike the other cantos, they cannot see the souls, instead they see trees that are gnarled and nasty. This…

Perishing in the name of love, one women is driven to the point of no return. In the Aeneid Book IV, Virgil writes about Dido, the Queen of Carthage, and the circumstances that came with her newly found relationship with Aeneas, son of Prince Anchises and the goddess Aphrodite, In the Aeneid Book IV, Virgil proves humans make irrational decisions when confronted with strong emotions such as love. The first irrational decision Queen Dido made was making a vow to a dead man. Initially Queen…