Virgil

In the book The Aeneid, the writer Virgil uses Greek mythology to add emphasis to and exaggerate the story of how Rome was founded during the time of Ceaser Augustus. The story mainly revolves around the protagonist, Aeneas. Aeneas is the son of the god Anchises the Trojan prince and Venus the goddess of love. He respects and cares deeply for his family. He has become a hero of his city for great things he has done throughout his life, but he didn’t start out so bold and strong. He is a mortal…

be sucked down along endless black tunnels… He described it so well that Nelson was for some seconds shaken. He connected the sewer passages with the entrance to hell…” (pg. 220). You can almost relate their journey to the one of Virgil and Dante, where Mr. Head is Virgil leading Nelson who is Dante through the city or…

Almost every discipline depicted in Inferno is planned to speak to a contrapasso, an impression of the wrongdoing being rebuffed. Dante first acquaints the peruser with the thought in the Vestibule, where the uncommitted are rebuffed. Since they were uncommitted in life, they are compelled to perpetually pursue, yet never find, a flag while being tormented by stinging creepy crawlies. What's more, since they never did extraordinary deeds for good or sick, their characters are difficult to…

respected queen who founds a thriving city known as Carthage (Copley 812). However, she starts spending more time with Aeneas and stops attending to her kingdom, “Her towers grew no taller; her army ceased maneuvers and worked no more” (Copley 843). Here, Virgil shows that distractions from duty interfere with progress. He shows that a community will suffer if its citizens do not tend to their duty. Dido is not the only one who neglects her duty. Aeneas also fails to fulfill his duties as…

Dante’s profound Imagination The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous work by Dante Alighieri described the poet, Dante himself walk through the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Since the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and…

Feudal and Futile: How the Angels vs. Devils Battle is a Parody of Epic Warfare In John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, the Biblical account of the fall of man into sin is taken to a new height by Milton’s use of metaphorical storytelling. Using the story of Genesis 3 as a basis, Milton further expounds on the fall of mankind out of God’s graces and into Sin by providing much imagined elaboration and backstory into which he infuses his own moral and spiritual lessons. The battle between God’s…

What is greed? The most common distinction pertains to a strong and selfish desire for something, such as wealth or power. The question is, what kind of person would intentionally succumb to such a malicious concept? The notion itself appears in countless works of literature, from fiction and non-fiction alike, and stands as an extremely prominent theme that has been featured in countless collected works. However, regardless of its commonality, greed is still a sinful conception that many men…

20-year-olds with the experience of 14-year-olds. I had such a naive and innocent outlook on life with no real “worldly” experience. Your life intersected with mine at such a critical point, I’m not surprised how attached I became to you. You became my Virgil, my guide;…

Dante’s Inferno: The Propelling Plot In the Inferno by Dante Alighieri, the character Dante, a poet, goes on a journey through hell with a poet named Virgil. Together, they descend through the nine circles of hell and learn about the sins of the souls that reside there. Dante begins his journey through hell as a naïve, sympathetic, man, but as the story progresses we see a dramatic change in the way that Dante views things. It seems unusual, in a place such as Hell, that Dante would sympathize…

revenge as many think, but in my opinion he wrote it to educate people, and help them understand literature in a language they could read and understand. Dante also writes about great philosophers and writers in the Comedy. When Dante first meets Virgil his guide, his master, his doctor he says:…