The giant blasphemer whose defiance of God persists under punishment and exemplifies violence against God.
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Capaneus
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Capaneus is punished more intensely because his arrogance survives death unchanged; even divine torment does not break his defiance.
Virgil identifies the giant as one of the seven kings against Thebes who held and still holds God in disdain.
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"Now here, now there they tried to beat aside the fresh flames as they fell. And they began to speak. My master, you who..."
"Then did my guide speak with such vehemence that I had never heard him use before. O Copenius, for your arrogance that is not..."
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