The text of Dis introduces a plain of burning tombs where heretics are segregated together in fiery sepulchres.
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Tombs
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Mycenaean wealth is visible in gold masks, gold-hilted weapons, defensive walls, and increasingly elaborate tombs.
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"What good is it to thrust against the fates? You're Cerberus, if you remember well, for that had both his throat and chin stripped..."
"For flames were scattered through the tombs, and these had kindled all of them to glowing heat. No artisan could ask for hotter iron...."
"This is a gold mass. Okay? Gold is very rare, as you know. And they turned it into a king. Some have speculated this..."
"The other thing about the Mycenaean civilization is their tombs are very, very elaborate. Okay? This is the entrance into one of their tombs...."
"...the pavement at your feet. As on the lids of pavement tombs there are stone effigies of what the buried were before, so that..."
"...so may your nails hold out eternal at their work we tomb who you see so disfigured here we're italians one said in tears..."
"...If you look at University of Hong Kong, there's a huge tomb, okay, in the library. Have you been to University of Hong Kong?"
"...Jiacheng built for his wife, and the library looks like a tomb, literally, to calm her spirit. So there's a lot of this kind..."
"...god and their punishment is to basically lie uh in these tombs and they're burning to to death and virgil says the main heresy..."
"...drew back till we were behind the lid of a great tomb on which I made out this inscribed, I hold Pope Anastasius enticed..."
"...here and in this third pouch. We had already reached the tomb beyond and climbed onto the ridge where its high point hangs just..."
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