Ulysses was condemned to the Inferno for the "fraud of the Trojan Horse"
Tom Send a noteboard - 15/11/2012 10:32:18 PM
Inferno XXVI, v. 55-60
Rispuose a me: Là dentro si martira
Ulisse e Diomede, e così insieme
a la vendetta vanno come a l'ira;
e dentro da la lor fiamma si geme
l'agguato del caval che fé la porta
onde uscì de' Romani il gentil seme.
He [i.e. Virgil] replied to me, "There inside are suffering
Ulysses and Diomedes, and so together
They come to their punishment as to their wrath;
And inside their flame groans
the trap of the horse that made the entry
from which departed the Romans' noble seed."
Now, Ulysses' last voyage was seen by Dante as a symbol of his arrogance. It was human presumption to go against the will of God, which is what Ulysses did, but he was punished in a lower level of Hell for the fraud of the Trojan Horse.
I also think that looking for logical coherence in a James Bond movie is akin to demanding it of a three-year-old.
Rispuose a me: Là dentro si martira
Ulisse e Diomede, e così insieme
a la vendetta vanno come a l'ira;
e dentro da la lor fiamma si geme
l'agguato del caval che fé la porta
onde uscì de' Romani il gentil seme.
He [i.e. Virgil] replied to me, "There inside are suffering
Ulysses and Diomedes, and so together
They come to their punishment as to their wrath;
And inside their flame groans
the trap of the horse that made the entry
from which departed the Romans' noble seed."
Now, Ulysses' last voyage was seen by Dante as a symbol of his arrogance. It was human presumption to go against the will of God, which is what Ulysses did, but he was punished in a lower level of Hell for the fraud of the Trojan Horse.
I also think that looking for logical coherence in a James Bond movie is akin to demanding it of a three-year-old.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
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