Both Uses of
Jerusalem
in
Dante's Inferno
- At the middle point of this hemisphere stood Jerusalem, equidistant from the Pillars of Hercules on the West, and the Ganges on the East.†
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- The concave of Hell had been formed by his fall, when a portion of the solid earth, through fear of him, ran back to the southern uninhabited hemisphere, and formed there, directly antipodal to Jerusalem, the mountain of Purgatory which rose from the waste of waters that covered this half of the globe.†
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Definition:
capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel; a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims