Differing Versions of the Underworld in The Inferno, Gilgamesh and the Odyssey

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This 2 page paper looks at the concepts of the Underword as described in Dante's Inferno, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and The Odyssey by Homer. The writer notes that of the three, Dante's Inferno is the only one that describes the Underworld as a place of punishment; in The Odyssey it is merely sad, and in Gilgamesh it is empty. Primary sources only.