Dante's Virtual Inferno : Second Life breathes new life into classic literature

by Grant Robertson Jul 20th 2007

The virtual world of Second Life has many uses; This one caught our eye. A virtual model of Dante's seven circles of hell, constructed entirely in bits and bytes. The recreation contains teacher's notes and allows a student, or just an interested party, to delve into the seven circles and glean information from the text in ways that have never before been attempted.

Just watch out for Cerberus.

Tags: inferno, second life, SecondLife, the seventh circle of hell, TheSeventhCircleOfHell

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Victor Agreda, Jr. said 12:22PM on 7-20-2007

Wow, Stalin was foreseen by Dante?

Aleister Kronos said 12:23PM on 7-20-2007

Thanks for picking up on my blog. I certainly appreciate the vast increase in new visitors, who I hope might find other little morsels that please or amuse them! :-)

Terra_firma said 2:14PM on 7-20-2007

Creepy. After seeing this screenshot, I added secondlife.com to my blocked sites list. BIZARRE. People who visit that kind of site creep me out!

Kat2 said 9:22PM on 7-20-2007

Dante's Inferno, in the book, has nine circles of hell.

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