Anthony Esolen
Professor
Dante's Inferno (2012)
Season 1
Anthony Esolen, the preeminent, award-winning translator of Dante's epic Divine Comedy, is your guide into the infernal abyss of Hell. Who will you meet? What will happen? Will you get out alive?
Released Oct. 2, 2012
Episode 35 min
None+
Genres: Documentary, History
Keywords: imdb.divine-comedy, imdb.catholic-courses, imdb.great-books, imdb.dante-s-inferno, imdb.dante-alighieri, imdb.education, imdb.religion + 3 more, imdb.christian, imdb.catholic, imdb.literature
Production Companies: Catholic Courses Institute
Network: The Great Courses
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Cantos 1-3: Where Are You Going, Traveler?
Dante, bewildered in sin, meets Virgil, sent to him by Beatrice. Together, they enter the terrible gates of Hell.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E2 - Cantos 4-8: Loving Good Things in an Evil Way
Dante and Virgil, after meeting the virtuous pagans in Limbo, the rim of Hell, meet the adulterers, gluttons, avaricious, wrathful, and slothful.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E3 - Cantos 9-12: Intellectual Terror
Virgil and Dante enter the first ring of the City of Dis, which includes the materialist heretics, who reveal to us the terrible constriction of the intellect entailed by sin.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E4 - Cantos 13-17: A World of Violence
Dante and Virgil encounter the violent against self, God, Nature, and human industry. These are not simply murderers; they are suicides, blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E5 - Cantos 18-22: Liars and All Such Filth
Dante and Virgil travel through the "pouches of evil" on the eighth circle of Hell where they meet various practitioners of fraud, including seducers, simonists, and grafters.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E6 - Cantos 23-27: The Fire of a Perverted Mind
As they continue around the Malebolge, Dante and Virgil journey past those who used their intellects to deceive: hypocrites, thieves, and evil counselors.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E7 - Cantos 28-31: Destroying the Community of Man
In the ninth pouch, Virgil and Dante find the schismatics, who are punished by division in their bodies. In the final pouch, they meet the counterfeiters who are punished by disease.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
S1E8 - Cantos 32-34: When Hell Freezes Over
Dante and Virgil come to the very last circle of Hell, and encounter the impotence of evil in the frozen pit where the Father of Lies is trapped in ice.
Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
Network: The Great Courses
Episode Runtime: 35 min.
Season Runtime: 285 min.
Released: Oct. 2, 2012
Last Air Date: Oct. 2, 2012, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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