Platonic Symbolism in Dante

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

for Professor John Freccero's
Dante's Paradiso class
Stanford University, Spring 2001

Platonic Lambda 55 in the Timaeus

Plato & Timaeus Citations in Dante's Commedia

Plato Citations in Dante's Convivio

Pythagoras Citations in Dante's Convivio

Canto Line Lengths in Dante's Commedia

Total Lines in Dante's Commedia

55 Stars Citations in Dante's Commedia

Stars Citations in Dante's Inferno

Stars Citations in Dante's Purgatorio

Stars Citations in Dante's Paradiso

Canto Lines 55 in Dante's Inferno

Canto Lines 55 in Dante's Purgatorio

Canto Lines 55 in Dante's Paradiso

Canto Lines 55 in the Commedia

Platonic Lambda: Even & Odd Numbers

Soul's Descent & Ascent: Left & Right

Platonic Lambda in Art: Botticelli & Blake

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