Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2016
07:30 PM – 09:00 PM
US/Central
Take a closer look at Dante’s Divine Comedy and experience not only his imaginative vision of the afterlife, but the medieval society in which he wrote his epic.
In the second lecture, the group will discuss why the Catholic Dante chose not Peter, Paul, Augustine, or Aquinas, but the pagan poet Virgil as his guide through Hell and Purgatory.
About the Lecture
Louis Markos, professor in English and scholar in residence at HBU, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. He is the author of On the Shoulders of Hobbits: The Road to Virtue with Tolkien and Lewis, From Achilles to Christ, Pressing Forward: Alfred, Lord Tennyson and the Victorian Age, Literature: A Student's Guide, and The Eye of the Beholder. Learn more at loumarkos.com.
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