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The purpose of reading the Iliad is so that you can then read the Odyssey, so that you can then read the Aeneid. Dante's Inferno is in some respects explicitly
by shrubble 6y ago
The purpose of reading the Iliad is so that you can then read the Odyssey, so that you can then read the Aeneid. Dante's Inferno is in some respects explicitly connected to the Aeneid, so we have a literary connection spanning literally millenia...
- ycombinete 6y agoThe Great Conversation, as it's sometimes called.
- madhadron 6y agoIf we just had a good translation of the Aeneid. Fitzgerald's is okay. CS Lewis's book one is wonderful. But Virgil's poetry carries the Latin in a way that the subject matter really struggles to do without. I am, however, incredibly happy that we have Clive James's translation of the Divine Comedy.