Dante

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Dantes InfernoCanto 14

• Samantha Royal
• November 20,2007

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Summary

• Dante gathers the scattered boughs and give them
  to the bush. He and Virgil reached the boundary
  that divides the second from the third ring the
  Violent against god.
• Here they found many flocks of naked souls
• weeping miserably, and it seemed they were ruled
  by different decrees. Among these sinners, Dante
  sees a giant, who Virgil identifies, as Capaneus
  one of the seven legendary kings who beseiged
  Thebes. Capaneus still holds God
• In great distain disprizing him.

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Summary

• They reach another river which runs red, and
  Virgil speaks to Dante about the source of Hell
  waters. Within the mountain their sits the old
  man of Crete. Tears flow through as they stream
  away they form the Acheron, the Styx, and the
  Phelegethon , the Cocytus.

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The Blasphemer

• Capaneus one of the seven legendary kings who
  beseieged thebes. He was struck by thunderbolt
  by Zeus for disrespecting Gods name.

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Scenery

• Dante and Virgil are in the Third Ring. They are
  in the wood of sorrow is a garland, just as that
  wood is ringed by a sad channel. The ground was
  made sand, dry, and compact. Also there is open
  plain that banishes all green things from its
  bed.
• They came across another place where flowed
• a slender watercourse out of the wood. As from
  the Bulicame pours across the sand. Its bed and
  both its lands were made of stone with the slope
  along its shores. He and Virgil make upon a
  devestated land lies in the midsea, a land that
  called Crete within that land there was a
  mountain blessed with leaves and waters. Within
  the mountain is a huge staute of a huge old man
  of Crete.

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Old Man of Crete
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Violent against God

• Dante is in the Third Ring of the seventh circle
  of hell. The first zone is Blasphemers supine on
  fiery sands. The largest group was there who
  walked about. The smallest supine in punishment.
• Some lay upon the ground flat upon their backs.
  Above that plain of sand, distended flakes of
  fire shower down so did the never-ending heat
  descend , the sand was kindled just as tinder on
  meeting flint will flame-doubling the pain.