Alexander Schmid Podcast

Dante's The Divine Comedy 2019: Lecture 12: Panderers and Seducers, Flatterers, Simoniacs and Future-Seers (Cantos 18-21)

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In this lecture, we (a) introduce the first four bolgias of Circle 8: the Malebolgia; (b) we consider the specific sinners of Jason of the Argonauts and Venedico Caccianemico among the panderers and seducers; (b) we then observe the sins and punishments of the flatterers, including Thais, and the Simonists, including Simon Peter; and conclude by (c) witnessing Dante being mistaken for Pope Boniface VIII and then observing the "far-seeing" future seers and their special contrapasso. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alexander-schmid9/support