I think I enjoyed the journey through the Inferno the best, walking in similar footsteps to Odysseus through the Underworld (XI). Familiar names alongside new histories with Dante's vivid imagination at work in listing out the punishments.
Something else which struck me & appealed to my artistic endeavours & source of employment - my meeting the Morai, the apportioners,
... I'd met the Three Graces before; Abigail Bosanko's fiction adopts them into her storyline to underpin sibling dynamics & relationships. Likewise I'd encountered the Nine Muses, Calliope - through Homer - & Clio especially. And I'd heard, in general, of the Fates as a plural entity & force for shaping destinies but their individual characteristics had passed me by:
- she: the Fate Lachesis who spins the thread of a person's life which her sister Clotho prepares & which the third Fate, Atropsos, cuts off at the time appointed for death.
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