Phlegyas
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In Greek mythology, Phlegyas was a king of the Lapiths.
Phlegias with Dante and Virgil, stained glass in Museo Poldi Pezzoli in Milan
Inferno (Dante)
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Inferno is the first part of the Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem the Divine Comedy, followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalis
Phlegyas
…in a rock by Megaera (one of the Furies) and starved in front of an eternal feast (comparable to the torment of Tantalus). In the Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Phlegyas ferries Virgil and Dante across the River Styx which is portrayed as a marsh where the wrathful and sullen lie within Hell's Circle of Wrath…
Canto I from the Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868). Here, Dante is lost at the start of Canto I of the Inferno.
Gustave Doré's illustration of Canto III: Arrival of Charon
The Harrowing of Hell, in a 14th-century illuminated manuscript, the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry