For once, don't be impatient and skip the intro when you first log on to this site. Instead, shiver as a message for the souls of the damned slowly unfolds onscreen, ending with the chilling words "abandon hope all ye who enter here"... Then begin your interactive tour of hell.
For this site takes you on a journey through Dante's Inferno which begins in the Dark Wood of Error and progresses through the nine circles of hell to Satan himself in Cocytus and the Poets' Way Out. It makes good use of Flash to capture the essence of Dante's great work through bold, primary-coloured graphics, reproductions of Gustave Dore's engravings, the words of Dante and Virgil and background notes on the beasts and demons that populate the circles. It doesn't go into great depths of detail (for that, try here: http://etcweb.princeton.edu/dante/index.html) but its strength lies in its simplicity. A great visual introduction to one of the masterpieces of western literature.
