ESSAY ON: Homer & Dante/The Nature of their Quest

Number of Pages 10

This research paper: A 10 page essay that compares Dante's Inferno with Homer's Odyssey. The writer argues that analogous comparisons can be made between Dante's work and his illustrious predecessors. An examination the "Inferno" and Homer's "Odyssey" demonstrates how in both works the "journeys" that these works describe concern how the protagonist works out a relationship between himself and the divine, and, in so doing, is able to "come home" by arriving at his destination, paradise for Dante the Pilgrim and his home in Ithaca for Odysseus. No additional works cited.


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