Abandoning All Hope | Heaven and Hell
1.1M views · Mar 24, 2019 · Education
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@KnowingBetter · 7 years ago (edited) · pinned
Judas got 30 pieces of silver. Whoops.<br>Ulysses is the Roman version of Odysseus' name, similar to Mars/Ares or Neptune/Poseidon.
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@ocbee6175 · 6 years ago
Dante literally wrote biblical self-insert fan fic and it’s one of the most important pieces of literature in history
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@d4nm0r · 7 years ago
So they started counting Hell circles from 0, damn, Lucifer was a Computer programmer.
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@Handleisntavailab · 7 years ago
Dante visited the suicide forest before it was cool
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@ZephLodwick · 6 years ago
Imagine writing a fanfiction so popular that the language it was written in became the Lingua Franca of the Italian Peninsula. He technically didn't write it in Italian; he wrote in in Tuscan. After Italy became a country, they chose Tuscan, Dante's language, as the official language of their nation, and it spread from there.
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@TheRenegade... · 7 years ago
Imagine being the neighbor and seeing what he's doing with no context.
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@BewareofTarps · 5 years ago
Dante: "These poor Ethiopians, who have never even heard of Jesus!"<br>Ethiopia, second oldest Christian nation on Earth after Armenia: "Am I a joke to you?"
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@nastrael · 7 years ago
Fun fact: a possible translation for Cerberus is "spotted"<br><br>Hades named his dog Spot.
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@novaglacrr6114 · 6 years ago
"The city of Dis. Dis is the city of hell, and dis is a ferret, and dis is another ferret."<br><br>Beautiful.
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@tamerlane9889 · 7 years ago
Saint Bernard: It really do be like that sometime
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@samueltitone5683 · 7 years ago
Basically Dante’s inferno is the most influential fanfic of all time.
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@ginargent5077 · 7 years ago
I should write a novel about CGP Grey guiding Knowing Better through the 9 circles of demonetization.
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