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  1. Not really. It's a contraption of an expression that means "servant of your", that obviously no slave would say to his master. It has sense only if a free man tells it to another, as a sign of respect.
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  2.  @dreamerthief2216  It's significative that Dante previously put both Averroes and Saladin (a muslim scholar and a muslim general, Dante does nothing by chance, he wanted to depict them there) among the not-baptized virtuous. Averroes with the likes of Socrat and Aristotle, Saladin, the man that took away Gerusalem from the Christianity, with the likes of Caesar. Because for Saladin, to fight Christians was his work, and he did it in an honorable way. Mohammed instead is among the schismatics for having divided Christianity, and Ali, at that point, for having divided Islam. The point was not Christian or Islamic religion, but to have caused discord.
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  3.  @iliveinsideyourhouse1367  It's actually the contrary. It has been noticed how the Dante main character of the Comedy, is very different from the historical Dante poet. He is weak (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.
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  4. @UCDVcxMDIug9M5_YY98jp3qA Charon is not a man, is the son of Erebus and the Night, while Minos is a demigod, son of Zeus, and both Virgil and Claudian stated that Minos was a judge of the underworld, so he was related to hell already in classical miths. Dante needed to put in the afterlife both well known contemporary people than well known people of the past. "well known people of the past" in medieval Europe meant Saints and characters of the Greco-Roman mithology, he couldn't put saints in hell, so... What other references should he have used? Those to modern-day archaeology? Jason is a man, so no reason to not include him between the men. The Sisters of Fate were cited as poetical symbols (of the given lenght of life), but never put anywere. Adonis' mother, Myrrha is a woman, that tricked her own father into sleeping with her, and got pregnant that way. She is in the tenth bolgia because her most serious sin was not incest, but deceit. Dante used them because their stories were well known, so it was not hard for the people to link the character with his sin. Cerberus is a monster, Pluto a God, so, not being real, they are not damned, but demons.
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  5.  @zaphael7238  Actually girls are more likely to get a free pass. The criticism Rey had is NOTHING in respect to what would have been, had a random guy shown to possess bigger powers than Luke and Anakin without training and any explanation. Asoka Tano teenage girl had been much criticised, before the evolution of the character shown that she was a really deep and likeable character, and not a bait to attract child viewers. Asoka tano teenage boy? People would have simply quit to watch the series without giving him any possibility.
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  6. This clip only scratched the surface. among a ton of other things he casually invented stylographic pen, ball bearings, CVT transmisson, exploded anatomic views, the way to dissect an human eye without deflating it, some law of physics...
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  7.  @Kyl5  Actually Dante was very famous in life, and his "canti" were already endlessly repeated in public, by professionals and normal people, when he was still writing the poem.
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  8. Actually that's exclusively Ovid's version of the mith. He invented the whole rape and curse thing because he was writing a book called "metamorphosys", that was about shape-shifting miths (so he needed a shape-shifting, and, since the book is about changes, he didn't care about changing the miths themselves) and because he loved to depict autorities in a bad light, so, in his versions of the miths, gods always play with mortals without caring abouth them. In the original Greek mith, Medusa was simpy born a monster, one of the three gorgons (along with Stheno and Euryale), that were daughters of Echidna and Typhon. Ironically, all three had the same aspect and powers, but Medusa was the only one that was mortal.
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  9. Diomedes is my favourite Greek hero since the first time I read the Iliad as a kid. He's not a demigod, he has not god-made superweapons, he's not even that rich (Homer says he had plain bronze weapons, without decorations of gold and silver), he doesn't throw child-like tantrums, he's so cold-minded (contrary to his father, Tydeus, that couldn't stop fighting even when she was dying) that he stops fighting mid-battle to greet an "inherited friend" (their grandfathers had been each-other guest) that was fighting in the other side. He's the regular guy that gets the job done despite anyone around him acting like an idiot. It's cute to see also how Athena has an obvious like for him, probably also because she felt guilty to have let his father die.
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  10. Quite the contrary. It has been noticed how the Dante main character of the Comedy, is very different from the historical Dante poet. He is weak, timorous (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.
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  11. Practically the entire story is French. Geoffrey of Monmouth was probably Welsh, but he wrote anyway under Norman rule.
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  12.  @davidegaribaldi1503  Some more durable, as the karkadè (hibiscus tea) in place of tea.
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  13. Remember to pay your mercenaries.
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  14. It historically happened. During the War of Chioggia (1378-1381).
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  15.  @androkguz  A Mary sue is a central character that isn't challenged by the plot. That's what specifically makes him boring. Not the fact that he's powerful, but the fact that he's too good for the story he's in. That's why Rey is a Mary Sue and Goku is not. As said: "if anything, Dragon Ball's problem is repetitiveness".
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  16.  @androkguz  I watched it, but, believe it or not, Red didn't provide the first definition of the Mary Sue trope, and I'm not bound to agree with her. It had been described and defined thousands of times, and the best definition of a Mary Sue is, "a central character that's not challenged by the plot". Because he's so superior to the story he's in, that the plot can give him only minor nuisances, not real challenges. That's why Rey is a Mary Sue, and Goku is not. Resting on Star Wars, Red doesn't know the source material very well also. It has been estabilished IN MOVIE that "wonderboy pilot" Luke had experience in piloting starfighters (T-16) BEFORE joining the rebellion. It's not like he became a pilot out of nothing, like Rey became an engineer, a gunner, a swordfighter and a jedi out of nothing.
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  17.  @deathknight75  He didn't bash Muslims and Greeks at all. Don't take this review for serious.
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  18. Diomedes is my favourite Greek hero since the first time I read the Iliad as a kid. He's not a demigod, he has not god-made superweapons, he's not even that rich (Homer says he had plain bronze weapons, without decorations of gold and silver), he doesn't throw child-like tantrums, he's so cold-minded (contrary to his father, Tydeus, that couldn't stop fighting even when she was dying) that he stops fighting mid-battle to greet an "inherited friend" (their grandfathers had been each-other guest) that was fighting in the other side. He's the regular guy that gets the job done despite anyone around him acting like an idiot. It's cute too see too how Athena has an obvious like for him, probably also because she felt guilty to have let his father die.
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  19. The Arsenal of Venice was famously able to produce a galley a day, and their rowers were no slaves
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  20. That's only Aeschylus' version of the mith. According to Euripides, Orestes and Electra were condemned to death by a court in Mycenae and saved by the intervent of Menelaus, that persuaded (or forced at swordpoint) the Myceneans to give them a year of exile instead. It was not game over however, since Orestes was still persecuted by the furies and ,in order to escape them, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and to bring it to Athens. In Tauris Orestes found his lost sister, Iphigenia, taken away from sacrifice by Artemis and rised as one of his priestess, was saved by her (not really girl-hating, is it?), and returned with her and the statue to Mycenae, so reuniting what was left of the family and finally being freed from the persecution. There are other versions as well.
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  21.  @tylerellis9097  1) Oh, yeah, it was only a small massacre, How could the Byzantines think that the Venetians could care of it? 2) So Genoese were fair game? 3) Had they massacrated Byzantines? (and, with the benefit of hindsight, why not, if they had been able able to vanquish the Empire in the end?) 4) So, when you are not satisfied of some State's assistance, the normal thing to do is massacrating the citizens you can find? The massacre of the latins simply demonstrated to the Venetians that the Byzantine Empire was an unstable and unpredictable commercial partner, and that, if they wanted to carry on their business without being at the mercy of some mad emperor, they had to do it through THEIR ports and THEIR fortresses, not asking for permission. In the end, it had been the right move, so yes, the massacre, for the byzantines, backfired a little. The way Byzantines could die to Turks is by dying to Turks. They already lost Anatolia before (stable? Please...), and there were no more Crusaders Kingdoms to take the brunt of the muslims' expansion efforts.
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  22.  @megnoliaedge6500  Mind that Apollo is also the god of playing and singing, while Artemis is of dancing.
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  23. "Ok messer Brunelleschi. We made a hole that's two meters larger than the biggest dome in the world (that BTW had been made by the Romans, and none knows how they did it) and we put it at 55 meters height. Now cover it."
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  24. Italian had been popularized in literature by BOCCACCIO, more than by anyone else (surely much more than by Machiavelli). His Decameron had been a massive success. Written a century before printing, it was copied not only by professionals, but by normal people that wanted to have their own copy, all over Italy (that Italy didn't have a meaningful use for a standard national language until the late 1800s is simply wrong. Anyone who traveled, IE merchants, needed, and used, a standard language. "literary" Italian, the language of Boccaccio, was not something only literates used in their writings). It's commonly said Dante is the father of Italian language, but in reality is the grandfather. Boccaccio is the real father. Being, among the "tree crowns" (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio) the one that wrote in prose, it had been Boccaccio that gave to the Italian vocabulary and grammatical rules, and the success of the Decameron cemented it so much that every modern Italian can still read and understand every sentence of it (not so much the Divina Commedia, that requires more than a bit of attention to be understood by a modern Italian).
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  25.  @ruialmeida818  13-14th century Italians WOULD NEVER IDENTIFY THEMSELF WITH DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES. One thing are political entities, another is nationality ESPECIALLY FOR DANTE, that was in favour of the Empire, so a sovranational political entity. The same order of the political stances in the Comedy stress that. Inferno is about Tuscan politics, Purgatorio about Italian politics, Paradiso about European ones. Petrarch (born in Arezzo, Tuscany) in a letter to Boccaccio (Born in florence, Tuscany) made fun of the Calabrian scholar Leontius Pilatus that, being Italian (Petrarch's words. For Petrarch there were no doubts that someone born in Calabria was an Italian like him and Boccaccio), pretended to be Greek to have more recognition.
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  26. all hope abandon ye who enter here
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  27.  @marvelfannumber1  ​That there would have been no Ottoman Empire without the 4th Crusade is a strong assumption since it had been founded almost ONE HUNDRED YEARS after the sack. What the 4th Crusade did in the long term for Venice was TWO CENTURIES of absolute rule over the eastern Mediterranean, and further three centuries of disputed rule, but Venice was still profiting of the Crusade after half a millennium. What other investment had been so successful in the long term?
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  28. In versions of the mith, Persephone was totally ok with that, they had to organise the thing because Demeter was iperprotective, and didn't allow Hades to court Persephone the normal way (in her defence, she had bad experiences with both of his brothers). Really, all of other miths about the couple show Hades to be so lowey-dowey and basically agreeing with anything Persephone said, that it seems totally out of character for him to kidnap her.
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  29.  @lirazel6414  Yeah, but it's not for being married and having children that he was in hell, but for what he did out of marriage. It has to be said that, for having cheated on his wife, he should have been put in the second circle, but the "violence against nature" is a worse sin, so...
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  30. Many other travelers of that era didn't mention tea, the great wall, or chopsticks. Marco was a traveler, not a westerner that enters in a Chinese restaurant and discover he can't have a fork for the first time in his life. He saw and practiced dozens of way of eating and tasted hundreds of beverages. Tea and chopsticks were not particularly weird.
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  31. Greatest poet of middle age and arguably of all times?
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  32. Church canon never changed to match the Divine Comedy.
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  33. Anakin is a failure. He lost everything. The Universe kicked him without even making him a sympatetic-sue, and the prophecy about him only applied to a last act of redemption.
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  34. I really HATE how every Hollywood movie about Greek gods has Hades as the villain. Mith Hades is really the best of the bunch there. He's strictly faithful to his wife (that can persuade him to do everything she wants), he's cool-minded and, despite bing all lovey-dovey with Persephone, he accepts her to spend six-months a year in in the world, because otherwise her mother, Demeter (THAT HAD BEEN RAPED BY BOTH ZEUS AND POSEIDON WITHOUT ANY CEREMONY) would miss her too much! He even tries to be a nice guy to her mother-in-law!
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  35.  @ultravioletentertainment7332  Not by chance some scholar argued that Orestes mith had been the sum of several older ones. In Euripides version, Orestes' guilt could not have been appeased just by a favourable verdict. He could atone his killing of a relative, altough to vindicate another, only by reuniting what was left of his family and leaving the circle of killings. Obviously Apollo foreshadowed all of that. The quest was not to find a statue, but to find a sister. Aeschylus' turned it into an advertising for Athen's legal system. Even if the goal was not much to declare the inferiority of the mother over the father (mind that half of the jury did not agree, even with a GOD as the defense attorney), but that, as the Romans would have said "in dubio pro reo", when the votes of the judges are evenly divided, mercy must prevail.
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  36. 12:22 "Oh my god, It's almost like the fourth crusade had long term consequences". Seriously? The Ottomans started to be a issue for Venice 200 YEARS after the sack of Constantinople (and initially they were a minor one, see the Battle of Gallipoli, that the Venetians won easily in 1416). Venice was still holding parts of the gains of the 4th Crusade 500 YEARS after the sack. Even admitting (and it's a strong assumption) that the Fourth Crusade really caused the raise of the Ottoman Empire, to have eliminated one of the intermediaries (so to have better prices and higher profits), annexed a good part of his wealth, and being still profiting of the operation after HALF A MILLENNIUM seems like AN HELL of a deal.
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  37. Pepin was both the name of Charlemagne's father and the nickname of one of his sons.
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  38. It has been noticed how the Dante main character of the Comedy, is very different from the historical Dante poet. He is weak, timorous (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.
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  39. Actually there is nothing remotely resembling a book in the original text. She should have read some weird translation. Dante only sees what resembled a human image in the second of the three circles (Jesus, obviously, since he incarnated in a human).
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  40. It should be noted, as aknowledged by Dante in "de vulgari eloquentia" that Sicilians had bee the first one to do poetry in Vulgar (the Sicilian School), so demonstrating Vulgar to be a "high" and complete language.
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  41. That's only Aeschylus' version of the mith. Aeschylus' goal was not to declare the inferiority of the mother over the father (mind that half of the jury did not agree, even with Apollo as the defense attorney), but to promote Athen's legal sistem where, as the Romans would have said "in dubio pro reo", when the votes of the judges are evenly divided, mercy must prevail. When the votes of the judges are equally divided, Athena ALWAYS votes for the defendant. BTW According to Euripides' version, Orestes and Electra were condemned to death by a court in Mycenae and saved by the intervent of Menelaus, that persuaded (or forced at swordpoint) the Myceneans to give them a year of exile instead. It was not game over however, since Orestes was still persecuted by the furies and ,in order to escape them, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and to bring it to Athens. In Tauris Orestes found his lost sister, Iphigenia, taken away from sacrifice by Artemis and rised as one of his priestess, was saved by her, and returned with her and the statue to Mycenae, so reuniting what was left of the family and finally being freed from the persecution. There are other versions as well.
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  42. Real life Dante was a badass. Dante main character of the Comedy, is purposedly very different from the poet. He is weak, timorous (Dante was a war veteran) and not very bright (not understanding the meaning of much of the things that the Dante poet wrote). More than a self-insert, Dante gave his name to a proper character that was fit for the poem.
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  43. Not a fanfiction, since there was not a canon.
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  44. That's only Aeschylus' version of the mith. According to Euripides, Orestes and Electra were condemned to death by a court in Mycenae and saved by the intervent of Menelaus, that persuaded (or forced at swordpoint) the Myceneans to give them a year of exile instead. It was not game over however, since Orestes was still persecuted by the furies and ,in order to escape them, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and to bring it to Athens. In Tauris Orestes found his lost sister, Iphigenia, taken away from sacrifice by Athena and rised as one of his priestess, was saved by her, and returned with her and the statue to Mycenae, so reuniting what was left of the family and finally being freed from the persecution. There are other versions as well.
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  45. ​ @imheretokissassandtakename8797  Oh, a noob troll. You should at least know the matter of the discussion to seem a little interesting.
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  46. @Axiom Steel26 I did, and in original. Have you?
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  47.  @johnnygreenface  There's no description of hell, purgatory or heaven in the bible. Is like saying that every piece of literature ever vritten with an angel or a demon in it is a fan fiction of the bible.
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  48. Actually there is nothing remotely resembling a book in the original text. She should have read some weird English translation. Dante only sees what resembled a human image in the second of the three circles (Jesus, obviously, since he incarnated in a human).
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  49. It's a ship war between the actual characters. Like: Priam: "I totally ship them" Menelaus: "I DON'T! SHE'S MY WIFE!"
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  50.  @Daughterofminerva  Infact Nàpulə, Napule, etc., it's pronunciation, like many English cities are pronounced in a different way than how they are written. The pronunciation is not the same even at few kms distance. It's not like "Napoli is a modern invention, it was Napule before the late 19th century". If you pick a 15th century map of the city, it has "Napoli" written over it.
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