Great Books II   Spring 2007
  Reading Questions  
 

January 18

 

Dante

Inferno

Focusing on V-XI

NOTE: Read one Canto per day, aloud.

 

 
  1. How does Minos symbolize hell?

  2. Explicate the sin and punishment of Paolo & Francesca.

  3. What is at the core of the weight shared by the misers and prodigals?

  4. What is at the core of the common problem/issue shared by the wrathful and slothful?

  5. Why are these pairs adjacent to one another in the fourth circle?

  6. How are each of the following a "Medusa"?   9.11.01, pornography, money, anger, fear, incontinence, desire.

  7. Why is heresy between incontinence and violence?