Dante takes the character of Minos both from the Aeneid and from ancient mythology. By placing a pagan god in a Christian view of the afterlife, Dante once again demonstrates that he has no problem with mixing vastly different traditions. The Lustful punishment is fitting: Those obsessed with the ...

"Dante's Divine Comedy and Aeneid" In Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante incorporates Virgil's portrayal of Hades from The Aeneid into his poem, and similarities between the Inferno and Hades can be drawn, however Dante wasn't attempting to duplicate Virgil's works. Alt...

While Homer's The Odyssey, Virgil's The Aeneid, and Dante's "The Divine Comedy" share the characteristic of being epic poems, they each offer different accounts and opinions of what lies in Hell. While Homer's account of Hell is largely filled with encounters of different personalities, the ...

In The Divine Comedy, Dante organizes both Heaven and Hell into several different divisions. Hell is broken down into nine levels, some with sublevels. Heaven, or Paradise, is separated into ten kingdoms. Each of these sections represents a lifestyle on Earth. The lifestyle in the afterli...

St.Augustine in the Inferno It is hard to place St. Augustine within just one of the levels of Dante's hell for his sins were varied and not great. Today many of his sins are commonplace. For example, most people attempt to better their own lives without regard of others. They attempt to i...