ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dorothy L. Sayers, Greek Mythology, Anagoge
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Becomes his new guide into heaven because virgil had no concept of. Christianity: dante thought of virgil as the greatest poet of the greatest time of the roman empire (augustus). Represents what could be achieved before christianity and reason, knowledge and wisdom. In his adult life, the guelphs were split, and dante was apart of the white guelphs. Boniface (pope) was in the black guelphs so dante put him in the 8th circle of hell in. Consequences of real time sins: the characters are not abstract sins given traditional names. People who had lived or were currently living: dante"s meaning - four levels of writing: the literal (or historical), the allegorical, the moral and the anagogical (i. e interpreting text as allusion to the afterlife) (musa, p. Form and structure: the commedia consists of 100 cantos, divided into three sections (inferno, purgatorio, paradiso, most translators don"t use this rhyme scheme (though some did try, such as dorothy.
