[PW] Seven Societal Ills

[Dennis Lien]

At 03:38 PM 6/25/2008, you wrote:
>Literary works inspired by the seven deadly sins
>
>John Climacus (7th century) in The Ladder of Divine Ascent
>Dante's (1265-1321 A.D.) The Divine Comedy
>William Langland's (c. 1332-1386) Vision of Piers
>Geoffrey Chaucer's (c. 1340-1400) Canterbury Tales
>Christopher Marlowe's (1564-1593) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
>Edmund Spenser's (1552-1599), The Faerie Queene
>Garth Nix's "The Keys to the Kingdom" is a seven-book children's series
>
>fd




And of course the movie BEDAZZLED and a few thousand other stories, poems,
songs, movies, etc.

Not to mention the origin story of CAPTAIN MARVEL (the Fawcett/DC original
comic hero of that name, not the later Marvel Comics one).  Billy Batson
was led down a subway tunnel decorated with statues of (a somewhat
non-canonical) set of seven deadly sins/enemies of manking prepatory to
his first meeting with the wizard Shazam, who turned him into Captain Marvel.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemies_of_Captain_Marvel_(DC_Comics)#The_Seven_Deadly_Enemies_of_Man>

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