Dante's Divine Comedy

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

Course Description

Overview

Join two gifted teachers as they share the fruit of two lifetimes' worth of historical and literary expertise in this introduction to one of the greatest works ever written.

Syllabus

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01: Reading the Poem - Issues and Editions
02: A Poet and His City - Dante's Florence
03: Literary Antecedents, I
04: Literary Antecedents, II
05: “Abandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter”
06: The Never-Ending Storm
07: Heretics
08: The Seventh Circle - The Violent
09: The Sin of Simony
10: The False Counselors
11: The Ultimate Evil
12: The Seven-Story Mountain
13: Purgatory's Waiting Room
14: The Sin of Pride
15: The Vision to Freedom
16: Homage to Virgil
17: Dante's New Guide
18: Ascending the Spheres
19: An Emperor Speaks
20: The Circle of the Sun - Saints and Sages
21: A Mission Revealed - Encounter with an Ancestor
22: Can a Pagan Be Saved?
23: Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean
24: "In My End Is My Beginning"

Taught by

William R. Cook Previous Bio Prev Next Bio Next and Ronald B. Herzman Previous Bio Prev Next Bio Next

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