Week 14 Reading Notes: Dante's Inferno, Part B
Here are my notes on Dante's Inferno. 1: The Minotaur and the Centaurs -on the way to the seventh circle, Dante and Virgil run in to the minotaur; they continue walking down to the seventh circle; on the way down, they come to the first ring where they find centaurs; they meet Chiron and Nessus; Nessus guides Dante and Virgil down 2: The Harpies and Capaneus -Dante and Virgil enter the seventh circle of hell, for the murderers; there they see tyrants, murderers and warriors; notably, they see Alexander the Great and Dionysius; the sinners boil in rivers of blood; they keep walking to the second ring, where the sinners who committed suicide are guarded by harpies; they walk to the third ring, where the people who were violent against god are; they come across Capaneus (a dead warrior) who just lays there in the torment; Capaneus tells Dante that Zeus hit him with a lightning bolt and killed him because of pride 3: The Old Man of Crete and Geryon -Dante and Virgil come to a
