Aglauros

Profile

In Purgatory, in a voice that arrives like a flash of lightning among the examples of punished envy, Aglauros is recognized, stating that she was turned to stone. The note to the passage clarifies that such voices, providing examples of punished envy, pass by very quickly and overlap, in parallel with the examples of charity that had welcomed the pilgrims at the entrance of the terrace. The immediate context of the passage, with the reference to the swift course of the voices and the atmosphere of solitude between one terrace and another, places the scene in the journey of Dante and Virgil on the terrace of the envious, where repentance and punishment are also expressed through these rapid and overlapping mythological references.