So, remember when I was annoyed that Cato, a suicide isn't consigned to the seventh circle of Hell? Turns out there's a reason. First of all, he's just a gate guardian in Purgatory — there's no intimation that he ever actually gets to go to Heaven.
Secondly, Dante was careful to only put Christian suicides in the seventh circle of hell, on the logic that pagans might not be offending their religions by committing suicide. So it's all okay! You didn't know Jesus anyway!
Anyway, talk of Cato always makes me think of this.*
*There are no time markers, but you want the man near the end making the amazing squinchy face and saying "You have lost Rome!"
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1 comment:
THAT IS SO CLEVER. I used to wonder about that all the time. Like, honor suicides in japan --- seventh circle, or not seventh circle? thanks, fiona and dante, for the clarification!
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