For Dante, Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise were not metaphors but ... His guide to the tripartite cosmos is the Roman poet Virgil, author of the “Aeneid,” whose only flaw is that he was born before ...

Ruled by Hades, the god of the underworld, the infernal rivers of Greek mythology are often mentioned in ancient literature.

Botticelli’s drawings and maps of hell give depth and gravity to the “Inferno” as reliably as Virgil gives directions to Dante. Every lover of high fantasy keeps one finger on the flyleaf ...

Virgil’s Aeneid was inspired by Homer and served as the inspiration for Milton’s Paradise Lost as well as Dante’s Inferno. Aeneas is Virgil’s hero in this epic poem, and we follow the ...

Inferno to Paradise” (“Dante”) — Written by Ric Burns and Riccardo Bruscagli; PBS “Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal” (“American Experience”) — Written by Jamila Ephron ...

Netflix unveiled the official opening sequence for Adi Shankar's Devil May Cry series, featuring a release date and Limp Bizkit.

Rains Over Babel,' a queer riff on Dante's Inferno, announces director Gala del Sol as a talent of international cinema.

Not everyone in the 14th century was charmed by the poem’s novelty or by Dante’s creative use of tradition in its three-part journey through hell (“Inferno”), purgatory (“Purgatorio”) and heaven ...