Cataloguing The Greats You Know And The Ones You Wish You Knew: INFERNO, Canto IV, Lines 115 - 151
Our pilgrim, Dante, gets to a vantage point where he can look across the "enameled" green to see the crowd gathered in and around Limbo's castle. He then lists off the greats: Trojans, Romans, Caesar, Aristotle, even pre-Socratic thinkers.Problem is, our poet didn't know many of these thinkers and writers except by name. He only knew of Plato by an incomplete translation of one minor work.What's more, he includes a few names in his list of the greats that are almost mind-blowing, figures I didn't see even after reading COMEDY for almost thirty years.Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I continue on…
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