Dantes Purgatorio
... Dantes mixed styles reflect the truth he is trying to present; that hell is much like the world we live in daily. In Purgatorio however, where Dante and Virgil have emerged from Inferno, are back on Earth, and are about to climb Mount Purgatory, where souls purge away their sins on their way to Heaven. ... The two cantos that I have chosen to analyze are Cantos IX in both Inferno and Purgatorio. ... In Inferno they are at the gate of Dis and in Purgatorio they are at the gate of Purgatory. In Purgatorio Dante is snatched up by an eagle, much like the Greek Mythological Ganymede, a young Trojan prince whom the god Zeus, in disguise as an eagle, snatched from the midst of his companions and bore up to Mount Olympus, where he was granted immortality.