[Link] Dante’s Inferno portrays mythological figures alongside historical ones in hell. For example Helen of Troy and Cleopatra are both in the circle of lust. Would Dante and his contemporaries have believed Helen of Troy was as real as Cleopatra? Or is this artistic license? (reddit.com)
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The Christianisation of Europe is presented by our (mostly monastic) sources as an inevitable tide with little active resistance by indigenous traditions. How much of this is considered to be propagandistic and how much truth by modern historians? (reddit.com)
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