Dante’s Inferno
Canto 14
Samantha Royal
November 20,2007
Summary
• Dante gathers the scattered boughs and give
them to the bush. He and Virgil reached the
boundary that divides the second from the third
ring: the Violent against god.
• Here they found many flocks of naked souls
weeping miserably, and it seemed they were ruled
by different decrees. Among these sinners, Dante
sees a giant, who Virgil identifies, as Capaneus
one of the seven legendary kings who beseiged
Thebes. Capaneus still holds God
In great distain disprizing him.
Summary
• They reach another river which runs red, and
Virgil speaks to Dante about the source of Hell
waters. Within the mountain their sits the old
man of Crete. Tears flow through as they
stream away they form the Acheron, the Styx,
and the Phelegethon , the Cocytus.
The Blasphemer
• Capaneus one of the seven
legendary kings who
beseieged thebes. He was
struck by thunderbolt by
Zeus for disrespecting
God’s name.
Scenery
• Dante and Virgil are in the Third Ring. They are in the wood
of sorrow is a garland, just as that wood is ringed by a sad
channel. The ground was made sand, dry, and compact.
Also there is open plain that banishes all green things from
its bed.
• They came across another place where flowed
a slender watercourse out of the wood. As from the Bulicame
pours across the sand. Its bed and both its lands were
made of stone with the slope along its shores. He and Virgil
make upon a devestated land lies in the midsea, a land that
called Crete within that land there was a mountain blessed
with leaves and waters. Within the mountain is a huge
staute of a huge old man of Crete.
Old Man of Crete
Violent against God
• Dante is in the Third Ring of
the seventh circle of hell. The
first zone is Blasphemers
supine on fiery sands. The
largest group was there who
walked about. The smallest
supine in punishment.
• Some lay upon the ground flat
upon their backs. Above that
plain of sand, distended flakes
of fire shower down so did the
never-ending heat descend ,
the sand was kindled just as
tinder on meeting flint will
flame-doubling the pain.