Satan in Dante’s Inferno: The Frozen Ninth Circle and the Three-Faced Devil
When most people imagine Hell, they picture flames. Sulfurous pits. Demons with pitchforks. Fire, fire, everywhere. Dante Alighieri had a radically different vision. In his epic poem The Divine Comedy, the deepest, most terrible circle of Hell is not blazing—it is frozen solid. Cocytus, the ninth circle, is a lake of ice. And the further … Read more