DivineComedy @DivineComedy

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” ― Dante Alighieri Joined March 2017

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Art Gallery @X_ArtGallery

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Gustave Doré - Dante's Inferno

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soli @solisolsoli

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Dante's Inferno by Gustave Doré

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WANA Visuals @wana_visualss

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🇱🇧 The Staircase of Knowledge - Beirut, Lebanon

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7 old books that will make you wiser than 99% of people: 1. The Apology, Plato 2. Parallel Lives, Plutarch 3. Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius 4. Confessions, Augustine of Hippo 5. The Republic, Plato 6. Meditations, Marcus Aurelius 7. Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle

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Crusader of Christ ⚔️ @Defendthewest17

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You need to watch Kenneth Clark’s 1969 docuseries, Civilisation. He covers the fall of Rome up to the mid 20th century. It’s 13 parts and 11 hours long, but it’s incredible.

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V. Visuals @Moodsby_v

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Dante's Hell under Mont Saint Michel, Pierre Lonica

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ShadowsOfConstantinople @RomeInTheEast

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Beautiful map of the Roman Empire in 1265 AD. The last hurrah of the Romans

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The Culturist @the_culturist_

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Dante's Inferno treats neutrality just as harshly as actual sin. People who took no side in life, the "uncommitted," land in the Vestibule of Hell. Since they fought under no flag, their punishment is to chase a meaningless, blank banner for eternity. This is the contrapasso that corresponds to their actions. For sitting out the spiritual war (choosing neither good nor evil), Dante considers them people who "were never alive." He has them chased and stung by hornets, while maggots on the ground feed on the blood. In other words, for refusing to risk shedding blood in life, the blood now spilled for their efforts is wasted in the dirt. The maggots evoke death, for these are people who never lived. Dante, who was exiled for his own political life, saw wealthy families of Florence opt out of important issues because they had too much wealth and comfort to lose. Dante doesn't even give them the courtesy of mentioning them by name — the uncommitted are all nameless. There is no neutrality in moral matters. If you stand for nothing, nothing is what you'll become.

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Learn Latin @latinedisce

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Sunt lacrimæ rērum — “Tears are the nature of things.” (Virgil)

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Learn Latin @latinedisce

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Fortēs fortūna iūvat — “Fortune favours the brave.”

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Learn Latin @latinedisce

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Prō patriā — “(Fight) for our country”

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Atlas Press @realAtlasPress

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What’s the best architectural style?

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Man of Myth @Mythos_Man

2 years ago

“For always the man in whom thought springs up over thought sets his mark farther off, for the one thought saps the force of the other.” — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto V

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Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap

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Mythical Beasts of Italy

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ThinkingWest @thinkingwest

2 years ago

The Holy Roman Empire lasted ~1000 years, and it looked like this: How did such a fractured political entity last so long? It has to do with a concept called “subsidiarity”, and it holds the key to implementing responsible government today 🧵 (thread)

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ThinkingWest @thinkingwest

2 years ago

A road might seem like a simple thing... But it was mastery of road construction that made Rome the most connected—and powerful—empire in the ancient world. Roman roads were engineering marvels in their own right 🧵 (thread)