40. For Now, It's All Plot: An Overview Of The Circle Of Wrath In INFERNO

Crossing Styx with a super demonic Phlegyas and walking up to the gate of the city of Dis.

In almost every episode of WALKING WITH DANTE so far, we take a passage from INFERNO and analyze it, talk through it, and look at some of the interpretive knots. But in this episode, I'd like for you to hear the storytelling.

To that end, I read all of the fifth circle of wrath in INFERNO, from Canto VII: Line 97 all the way forward to Canto IX: Line 106. I'd like you to hear it as a story, a narrative, with its rising and falling action, as well as those things that we associate with good storytelling.

We'll come back to our passage-by-passage walk in the next episode.

Sit back and take in the story. There’s no study guide here because the most important thing is to listen . . . which might be some of the most important work you can do to better understand COMEDY.