Ulysses

Another Greek myth is visited, this time Ulysses of the Homer. Although in hell, it seems that Odysseus was still portrayed in a higher light, some how he was still a good man. The way he allowed Ulysses to speak, such dignity, even in the face of hell.

Now I begin to think, Inferno wasn't just a warning for sinners. It was an expression of art. For centuries, the Catholic Church had oppressed the ideas of the Greeks. But Dante, Dante was the one who ushered in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment. Using Inferno, he sneakily placed the Greeks in a sorta okayish term, radical for his day. But it may have been Dante, who led us into the modern era.