The DEEPEST cut
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dhampyresaIn the I'm the Grim Reaper by GRAVEWEAVER, there's a character called Ante Nora. This character has (a) been condemned to the Ninth Circle of Hell because of (b) committing crimes against humanity (exact details tbd as of writing).
In Dante's Inferno, Antenora [1] is the name of the second ring of the Ninth Circle. It's dedicated to traitors to their country.
This is THE DEEPEST FUCKING CUT, seriously. I just now noticed this, even though I've read the entire The Divine Comedy (in French, admittedly, but placenames are the same) and have been reading the comic for years/since before the appearance of this character name. The only reason I noticed is that that's the part of Inferno I'm currently rereading.
The slow "waaaaaaaait... is it? it IS!" realisation was a moment of pure joy I really needed lately, so thank you GRAVEWEAVER.
And bravo. Please leave more obscure references in your work, you lovely nerd.
[1] Antenora is named after Antenor, who let Ulysses's [2] treacherous horse into the city.
[2] Ulysses is also in Hell, in the eighth bolgia of the Eighth Circle, the place for fraudulent counsellors. Dante made up a last voyage of Ulysses, where he sailed past the pillars of Hercules in an unending, prideful and fatal search of knowledge. Dante will get his headcanons aaaaaaaaaaall over your classical texts. According to the France Culture podcast Dante, bienvenue en Enfer; Épisode 3 : Mort d’avoir trop voulu connaître (Dante, welcome to Hell; Episode 3: Died of wanting to know too much) [3] Dante didn't have access to a complete version of the Odyssey as we know it now. If memory serves, the first complete Odysseys came to Europe post the fall of Constantinople in 1453, a good 120+ years after Dante magnum opus came out.
[3] Did I find out about Stromae's L'enfer from the first episode in the series? You can't prove anything.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
In Dante's Inferno, Antenora [1] is the name of the second ring of the Ninth Circle. It's dedicated to traitors to their country.
This is THE DEEPEST FUCKING CUT, seriously. I just now noticed this, even though I've read the entire The Divine Comedy (in French, admittedly, but placenames are the same) and have been reading the comic for years/since before the appearance of this character name. The only reason I noticed is that that's the part of Inferno I'm currently rereading.
The slow "waaaaaaaait... is it? it IS!" realisation was a moment of pure joy I really needed lately, so thank you GRAVEWEAVER.
And bravo. Please leave more obscure references in your work, you lovely nerd.
[1] Antenora is named after Antenor, who let Ulysses's [2] treacherous horse into the city.
[2] Ulysses is also in Hell, in the eighth bolgia of the Eighth Circle, the place for fraudulent counsellors. Dante made up a last voyage of Ulysses, where he sailed past the pillars of Hercules in an unending, prideful and fatal search of knowledge. Dante will get his headcanons aaaaaaaaaaall over your classical texts. According to the France Culture podcast Dante, bienvenue en Enfer; Épisode 3 : Mort d’avoir trop voulu connaître (Dante, welcome to Hell; Episode 3: Died of wanting to know too much) [3] Dante didn't have access to a complete version of the Odyssey as we know it now. If memory serves, the first complete Odysseys came to Europe post the fall of Constantinople in 1453, a good 120+ years after Dante magnum opus came out.
[3] Did I find out about Stromae's L'enfer from the first episode in the series? You can't prove anything.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.