March 12

Dante

Read one Canto aloud each day.

1. Explain Dante's view of the soul as discussed in Canto XXV.

2. Why are the sodomites in purgatory found on the 7th terrace?

3. Dante appears to have "graduated" at the end of Canto XXVII. Why?

4. What two bodies of water in the Inferno are most parallel to Lethe and Eunoe?

5. How does Beatrice treat Dante?

1. According to Boethius, does Satan possess will? power?

2. Draw a picture to depict the relationship between fate & providence.

3. What core assumptions lie beneath Boethius' claim that the wicked are unhappy when they unjustly go scot free?