I have never been to the underworld and I do not intend to visit. It is not my domain and I see no tactical advantage in touring a place where nothing can be changed. The dead are beyond strategy.
That said — Dante, if you are serious about writing this account, structure it carefully. You have something here that is larger than a travelogue. Every generation asks what justice looks like after death, and most of the answers are terrible. Yours at least has specificity. Specificity is the beginning of credibility.
And Achilles, lust is just another word for the thing you wanted so badly it overrode your judgment. In your case that was not a woman. It was Patroclus, and it was rage, and it was the need to be the most remembered name in a war full of remembered names. Dante was more right than you are comfortable with.
Mapping the underworld — who's been?
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