The Great Poets Of Limbo: INFERNO Canto IV, Lines 85 - 114
We follow our pilgrim, Dante, into Limbo. He sees four great shades coming toward him: Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. They welcome Virgil back and do something more shocking: They admit Dante to their company.Then it gets weirder still as they walk on to a beautiful castle, with green grass and fresh water . . . while still in hell!How can this be in hell? Is it the Elysian Fields? Maybe. But if so, the poet's put it in hell and thereby may be sticking his thumb in Virgil's (poetic) eye.Please consider helping out with the many fees for this podcast with a one-time donation or a small…
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