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Today we’re doing a video I’ve wanted to do for a LONG TIME: a full analysis, deep-dive, ending explained (you name it) for Dante’s Inferno, one of my favourite games of all time.
Book links – apologies, two are only available via Amazon or Ebay
My version of the poem is Inferno by the Reverend Henry Cary
Modernised version: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Divine-Comedy-Simplified-Modernised/dp/B0DK78M886
Dante’s Inferno for Kids & Curious Parents: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dantes-Inferno-Curious-Parents-bambini/dp/8894632547#:~:text=Book%20overview&text=This%20book%20tells%20thirty%2Dthree,ones%20of%20its%20irresistible%20charm.
Acheron Games Divina Commedia (EU Link): https://www.acheron.it/Divina-Commedia-Inferno-p340283910
Acheron Games Divina Commedia (outside EU): https://magicmadhouse.co.uk/acheron-games-inferno-5e-divina-commedia (I used this link, they’re sound!)
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Bibliography:
– Awesome concept art (Mask131 at Tumblr.com): https://www.tumblr.com/mask131/624150880296517632/more-concept-arts-for-the-creatures-of-lust-the
– Further reading on Semiramis: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/743/sammu-ramat-and-semiramis-the-inspiration-and-the/
– Further reading on the Church’s attitude to S**cide:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26671571
https://web.archive.org/web/20070317103747/http://pipsproject.com/Understanding%20Suicide.html
https://daily.jstor.org/why-suicide-was-a-sin-in-medieval-europe/
– Further reading on Thais the Harlot:
https://www.room207press.com/p/the-life-of-st-thais-whore-by-unknown.html
– Thorough Analysis of the poem as a whole at CliffsNotes.com: https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-divine-comedy-inferno/poem-summary
00:00 Welcome to the Inferno
02:27 Game Dante, Dante, and Dante
10:16 The Origin of Inferno
15:13 History & Topography of Hell
21:01 Acre, Earth, & the Gates of Hell
38:45 Arriving in Limbo
46:15 Lust
55:13 Gluttony
01:04:21 Greed
01:15:12 Wrath (Heretic Tombs, Burning Sands, Phlegethon, Forest of S-cides)
01:56:15 Fraud
02:11:05 Treachery
02:20:21 Adapting an Epic Poem
02:25:43 Is it FanFiction?
02:30:16 Dante & Women
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