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You're right GoingtoAlpha, certainly about biblical details of the afterlife.

I didn't have room for it in the piece (it's pretty long as is), but I talked with Prof. Benes about that and she told me that while the specifics of the imagery were Dante's, they were very much in line with the theology of the time. For example, incorporating classical monster's into a Christian hell made perfect sense from the standpoint that such monsters and figures like Minos, if they'd existed, would of course have to have been subject to God's will, thus finding them in Hell is aligned with the theology of the day.

Hmmm, don't know what happened with the Doré spelling - something in the blogging software must've eaten the accented "e."

Good catch Kamizar.