Great Books II   Spring 2020

  Reading Questions  
 

February 13

 
 

 

 

Dante - Inferno

Read one Canto aloud each day.

 

Augustine XI

Focus on XXX-XXXIV
  1. How is suffering different at this level of hell?
  2. Explicate the well of giants.
  3. Why is Satan frozen?
  4. What ultimate lessons about hell and about one's own sinfulness has Dante learned?
  5. How is conversion a kind of inversion?

 

 

 

Explain Augustine's theory of time.

BRING YOUR INFERNO CANTO