Where do you see the influence of The Aeneid in Dante’s poem? Of Confessions?
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August 16, 2019Where do you see the influence of The Aeneid in Dante’s poem? Of Confessions?
Question Description
As an epic journey to Hell and back, The Inferno clearly traces its ancestry, in part, to The Aeneid. As an “autobiographical” record of a spiritual struggle, it also has equally obvious roots in Augustine’s Confessions. We come to this book, then, uniquely well-versed in its literary antecedents. Where do you see the influence of The Aeneid in Dante’s poem? Of Confessions?
