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Dante's Odyssey: An Apocalypse Now

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Tales from an inner journey - A talk by Italian filmmaker Max Leonida (William Penn University)

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Dante's Odyssey: An Apocalypse Now
Dante's Odyssey: An Apocalypse Now

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Apr 22, 2021, 6:30 p.m. PDT

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About the Event

From Orpheus and Eurydice, Virgil’s Aristaeus, Ovid’s Metamorphoses up to Homer’s Odyssey & to the over 50 other different versions of the journey of a man through the three Realms – Inferno, Purgatory & Paradise (including Bonvesin de la Riva’s Libro delle Tre Scritture) – the myth of a man who has to face an initiating and painful mystical travel in the afterlife is a recurring theme in the entire Western literature.

Dante was the first writer to depict human beings as the products of a specific time, place & circumstance as opposed to mythic archetypes or a collection of vices and virtues: therefore it could be rightly said that Dante has actually started all the modern fiction

From that assumption comes the everlasting charm & the evergreen appeal of the adventures of Dante’s journey as a still powerful magnet that can everlastingly gain an incredible interest all over the…

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