Lectures: Understanding Dante’s Inferno – Discourses on Minerva

In this series of three online lectures, I explore and explain the meaning of Dante’s Inferno, the relationship of Dante and Virgil, and the political allegory of The Inferno. These three lectures combine for just over an hour of commentary and reflection on Dante’s journey through hell and how we, as readers, should understand the construction and narrative movement of the work and its major themes.

LECTURE ONE: THE MEANING OF THE INFERNO

LECTURE TWO: THE RELATIONSHIP OF DANTE AND VIRGIL

LECTURE THREE: THE POLITICAL ALLEGORY OF THE INFERNO

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Paul Krause is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of Muses of a Fire, Finding Arcadia, The Odyssey of Love and the Politics of Plato, and a contributor to the College Lecture Today and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and religious studies (biblical studies & theology) from the University of Buckingham and Yale, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, history, and philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University.

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