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I hate Dante´s Inferno for this, but I understand his point of view on Greek "heroes", being Italian he supported romans and who were they? Troyans; so where would you put the ancestral enemies of your ancestors, in Heaven, are you crazy? in the INFERNO, Where they´ll burn for all eternity!

Also I exposed in another tweet that in Dante´s Divine Comedy or what I like to call All against me are sinners and deserved to die, here´s theological proof TM. Odysseus´s life after the Suitor´s death is one of longing of adventure, ABANDONING PENELOPE AND TELEMACHUS, FOR FAME AND ADVENTURE, entering hell for the end.

deep breath...

As we can see the Divine´s Comedy is against Ody´s;, he´s leitmotiv was returning back to Ithaca ( Nostos); so as customary to the Romans, the Greeks are viewed and written trough a bad lens, like Achilles, Patroclus, etc..

Also a character that helps Dante for much of the book is based on a historical figure; Virgil who was also roman and the author of the Aeneid, who as you know is an Odyssey and Illiad ripe-off, like way on the nose. So is no brainer to put these two, Odysseus and Diomedes, in hell for destroying and sacking Troy, Rome´s alleged homeland.

Ooh! Aw :) the Odysseus/Penelope/Diomedes ship makes me SO SAD because in Dante's Inferno Odysseus returns to sea years later with Diomedes (leaving Penelope alone) and they both die and are punished for their wanderlust/dissatisfaction with life and they're like tied and burning together and :((( not only do they have to hear eachother being tormented, they also left Penelope alone, saying they'd return like last time, except this time it was actually, finally a lie :(((

Taking Diomedes away from him let my boy live in peace

Taking Odysseus away too let my other boy live in peace

Iirc correctly in the Aeneid, Diomedes is said to be living peacefully in his founded city? I like this. Go babygirl, live a life of peace after being so entrenched in war. There are also some posthomeric myths that say he becomes a god, offered immortality by Athena. I think that's funky. Go babygirl be a god

Also YELLING about Odysseus, why do people keep killing him off far from home when his entire story is about getting home. Weeping. Let him have his gentle death. Let him grow old with his lady love