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Ocean and Underworld: Dante's Purgatorio, Part I

  • The Agora Foundation 1129 Maricopa Highway Ojai, California 93023 United States (map)

What mysteries lie hidden underwater and deep in the underworld? Will one who explores these realms discover ancestors, gods, monsters,... or even themselves? This series will consider the ocean and the underworld as depicted in these classic literary texts, including Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s, The Tempest, Melville’s Moby Dick, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World,” and T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland.” Please register for this live seminar HERE. TIMES IN PST.

Earlier Event: May 13
LIVE from History: George Wythe
Later Event: May 15
CW Conversations: United Colonies