The Contemporisation of Dante´s Inferno

This paper discusses the contemporisation of Dante´s Inferno. It attempts to highlight the role of contemporary media in recasting this culturally significant work in a new light. More accessible to the current generation in the form of a computer game, the contemporisation of Dante´s Inferno loses none of its impact and meaning. More than this, the game facilitates the search for a virtual soul-space previously reserved only for those vested with the ´given powers´ (in Medieval times and prior). In this sense, the contemporisation of the Inferno also brings with it much of the mythological intensity it once sought.