Ammunition! (Seventh Circle)

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Ammunition! (Seventh Circle)

• Feraco
• Myth to Science Fiction
• 24 November 2009

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Round One

• Minotaur
• Born, Lived, Died Violently
• Violence Against Neighbors
• Audacious Cruel
• Stand in Phlegethon Boiling Blood / Proportional
  Punishment
• Centaurs and Arrows
• Centaurs
• Human and Horse
• Chiron vs. Nessus

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Round One

• Alexander Conquer the World
• Attila The Scourge of God
• Dionysius The Tyrant of Syracuse
• Ezzolino The Hairy Ghibelline
• Opizzo Cruel Ruler of the North
• Guy de Montfort Heart in a Cup
• Pyrrhus The Invader
• Sextus The Pirate of Sicily
• Riner da Cometo/Rinier Pazzo The Highway Bandits

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Round Two

• The Violent Against Themselves
• Destroyed Substance God Gave Them
• Defying Natural Order
• Suicides and Squanderers
• No More Bodies
• Nuance and Suicide
• Classic Romans
• Medieval Christians (Aquinas)
• Locked In
• Harpy Feed
• Blow Out Your Blood

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Round Two

• Pier della Vigne
• Dante and Boethius
• Fortunes Fool
• Bash Out, Leap Out, Go Out
• Jacomo da Sant Andrea
• Set Fire to Everything
• Executed/Torn Apart
• Arcolano da Siena
• Run from the Past
• Lay Down Your Burdens
• Unknown Florentine Suicide
• The City in Ruins

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Round Three

• Violent Against God
• Burning on the Sterile Plain
• Capaneus Never Learns
• Violent Against Nature
• Running in Circles
• Brunetto and The Little Treasure
• Jacopo/Guido/Tegghiaio
• Violent Against Art
• Purse Around the Neck

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Round Three

• Phlegethon Still Boils Magic
• The Old Man of Crete
• The Golden Head and the Iron Age
• Geryon
• Beautiful Dishonor
• Sins of the Leopard
• Phaethon, Daedalus, Icarus
• Fly Fast, Fly High, Fall Hard

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Seventh Circle

• Theres a simple lesson in the Seventh Circle,
  beyond the be nice to others message Man is in
  decline
• We discussed this in one context, and heres
  another

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Seventh Circle

• Anne Barbeau Gardiner, a professor of English at
  at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City
  University of New York, argues that pietas, or
  reverence for the wisdom handed down from the
  past, seems to have disappeared.
• How would you reply?