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Circle 9 Brewing, San Diego

November 27, 2021 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“Small craft brewing operation decorated with imagery inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy — the brewery gets its name from Dante’s nine circles of hell. Fortunately, the beer is cold, and tasty, and often a good pairing with the abundance of Asian restaurants in the area.”     –description on the San Diego Reader

“Lager up, sinners, or wait till the next batch. . . While the Japanese rice lager they served abroad wasn’t served at the opening, an Americanized version of the beer, dubbed Limbo, was.” [. . .]     –Ian Anderson, San Diego Reader, August 21, 2017 (retrieved November 27, 2021)

Learn more about Circle 9 Brewing on their FaceBook page here. (Note: The official website for the brewery appears to be inoperable as of posting.)

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Places
Tagged with: Beer, Brewery, California, Circles of Hell, Ninth Circle, San Diego, United States

“San Francisco: The 9th Circle of Hell”

November 21, 2021 By Sephora Affa, FSU '24

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“Dante learns a great many things about the metaphysical world, but this blog post is mostly concerned with the temperature of the 9th circle of hell. For those who haven’t read it, this circle is not a fire pit with little devils poking bare-bummed sinners with pitch forks. It’s frozen solid, and at the very epicenter, Satan is frozen mid-waist, eternally munching on Brutus, Cassius, and Judas in his three mouths. It’s pretty gruesome but not unlike what’s going on in San Francisco this winter.” [. . .]    —Snotting Black, January 15, 2013

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2013, Blogposts, Blogs, Brutus, California, Frozen, Hell, Judas, Ninth Circle, San Francisco, Satan, Travel Writing, Weather

Banpresoft’s Video Game, Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation (2002)

September 28, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“In Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation, Judecca, Levi Tolar’s personal unit, uses attacks named after the four zones of the ninth circle of Hell.”    —Wikipedia 

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2002, Circles of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Judecca, Ninth Circle, Video Games

Nine Circles (Band)

August 19, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

“The name of the early 1980s Minimal Electronic band Nine Circles originates from Dante’s ‘Nine Circles of Hell’.”    —Wikipedia

Categories: Music
Tagged with: Art, Circles of Hell, Germany, Hell, Inferno, Music, Netherlands, Ninth Circle

Garry Wills, “The Bishops Are Wrong About Biden—and Abortion” (June 27, 2021)

June 29, 2021 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“What is the worst crime a society can commit? Some people (I among them) would say the Holocaust, the cold methodical murder of six million people just for being Jews.

“But some Catholics and evangelicals say they know of an even greater crime — the deliberate killing of untold millions of unborn babies by abortion. They have determined that a fetus is a person and abortion is therefore murder. This is a crime of such magnitude that some Catholic bishops are trying to deny the reception of Holy Communion by the president of the United States for not working to prevent it.

“No one told Dante that this was the worst crime, or he would have put abortionists, not Judas, in the deepest frozen depths of his Inferno. But in fact he does not put abortionists anywhere in the eight fiery tiers above the deepest one of his Hell.” [. . .]   –Garry Wills, “The Bishops Are Wrong About Biden—and Abortion,” New York Times (June 27, 2021)

Read the rest of Wills’s opinion piece at the New York Times.

See also this response to Wills’s essay in The National Review, which includes an extended discussion of Dante and his era.

Contributed by Hilary Barnes (Widener University)

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2021, Abortion, America, American History, American Politics, American Religion, Catholicism, Communion, Joe Biden, Judas, Ninth Circle, Political Leaders, Presidents, Sin, United States

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