From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 09:08:14 MDT
Amara:
An Italian drama with all of the appealing elements
for TV: art, action, religion, politics, intrigue...
You might also ask: what about the other non
christian or muslim famous people? Well, Dante was
generous, sometimes. He visited them in
the Limbo, where they lived, all together,
but temporarily.
(Inferno, canto IV, in the Limbo)
When I lifted up my eyes a little higher,
I saw Aristotle, the master-knower,
Seated with the family of philosophers.
All look up to him, all do him honor;
There also I saw Socrates and Plato,
Nearest to him, in front of all the rest;
Democritus, who ascribes the world to chance,
Diogenes, Thales, Anaxagoras,
Empedocles, Zeno, and Heraclitus.
I saw the worthy categorizer of herbs,
Dioscorides, I mean; and I saw Orpheus,
Tully, Linus, Seneca the moralist,
Euclid the geometer, Ptolemy,
Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna,
And Averroes, who wrote the Commentary.
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