Classical Horror in Dante's Inferno, Cantos XIII and XXV

by Matthew Gordon

1.
To eliminate confusion, Dante the poet is hereon designated Alighieri, and Dante the pilgrim as Dante.

2.
Dante, Inferno, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), Canto XIII, 4. Hereon, subsequent references to Inferno will be in the form: (Canto, Line no.)

3.
Porena. Commentary on Canto 13, line 33. Dartmouth Dante Database.

4.
Seneca, Hercules Furens. Referential commentary on Canto 13 from Longfellow, lines 2-9. Dartmouth Dante Database.

5.
Zimmerman, J.E. Dictionary of Classical Mythology. (New York, Bantam Books, 1964) p. 117.

6.
Virgil, Aeneid, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press, 1971.) Book III, 278-287.

7.
Singleton. Commentary on Canto XIII, lines 31-45 using Virgil's Aeneid.

8.
Longfellow. Commentary on Canto 26, line 4. Dartmouth Dante Database.

9.
Ovid, Metamorphoses. trans. Rolfe Humphries (Bloomington, U. of Indiana Press), 1983) Book IV, lines 373-79.

10.
Singleton. Commentary on Canto 25, line 143. Dartmouth Dante Database.

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Ovid, Book IV, li. 576-589.