Talk:Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture

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[edit] Cultural depictions of Dante?

I see there's already a cultural page for Dante. I've done some work that may serve as a model for other Core Biography cultural lists: Cultural depictions of Joan of Arc, which has become a featured list. Recently I also created Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great out of material that had been deleted from the biography article. I'd like to suggest standardizing the formatting and referencing for similar lists. Regards, Durova 16:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Are you looking for opinions on the best title for the article? IMHO, "cultural depictions" sounds like a more useful label than the inherently low-brow "...in popular culture". (Oh, and the Joan of Arc page looks very nice, congrats.) Sgt Pinback 21:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks. Actually I'm suggesting this at the core biography articles as a standardized approach. Durova 04:12, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

I made the Niven/Pournelle novel less of a spoiler. I read it, and it was fun not to know who he would be traveling with. There's a link to the book's article, so people can still find out anyway. --Scarlet-=Spider-DavE=- 15:21, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Thom Yorke of the band Radiohead has also referenced Dante's Inferno as a recurring source of inspiration for his music and many references to the poem can be found in the band's lyrics. Some claim that Pyramid Song from the album Amnesiac contains references to the Inferno, but 'swimming with angels' does not occur in the Inferno nor does going to 'heaven in a row boat' (characters get into boats but they do not make it to heaven until "Paradiso" of course), nor do 'astral cars' appear in the Inferno, nor is there an absence of the emotions fear and doubt in the poem.

Actually, one of the last lines of the Inferno says, "Glimpsed the bright burden of the heavenly cars" (Canto XXXIV Ln. 137 in the Sayers' translation). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.101.245.178 (talk) 04:20 8 March 2007 (UTC).

Really? It doesn't in the original Italian which has lines 136 to 138 as:

"salimmo sù, el primo e io secondo,

tanto ch'i' vidi de le cose belle

che porta 'l ciel, per un pertugio tondo;"

and neither does it in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's translation which has

"We mounted up, he first and I the second,

Till I beheld through a round aperture

Some of the beauteous things that Heaven doth bear;"

(which swaps the end of line 138 with the end of line 137 from the original) and neither in the German nor French translations. The last line 139 ends with stelle (stars), so maybe Sayers has a typo? -Wikianon 11:25, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zorba the Greek?

There's quite a few references in Zorba the Greek, but their a little criptic even if they do say a lot about the main character. How overt should the references be? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.58.235 (talk) 09:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Popular culture?

What is popular culture? Maybe it has a technical meaning that I don't understand, but I didn't know that T.S. Eliot, Primo Levi, Pope Benedict XVI, and Karl Marx were part of it.--Oxonian2006 (talk) 12:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)