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THIS JUST IN! - anyone who writes a book that's supposed to suggest a moral message is a conman! Such authors as...
Homer
Virgil
Aeschylus
Plutarch
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
J. R. R. Tolkein
J. K. Rowling
Mary Shelley
...and many, many more, are now to be considered con artists, and their works as deceptions to take your money. Up next, is nearly every single movie ever made a con? More at eleven!
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An account is a record of something that happened. Dante made up pure fantasy and tried to sell it as religious cannon; he is a conman.
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Can you not comprehend the bold text. J.K. Rowling never tried to convince people that there were really wizards living amongst us in society and in Scotland there is a magical castle where they learn to do magic. Dante sold books which declared what he knew to be bullshit as truth.
EDIT: And Homer as an author of a morality story? I think Mein Kramf has about as much moral as the Iliad.
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He didn't sell it as religious canon, this is primarily signalled by the fact that the main protagonist in his story is...well himself. He never actually said that he had been to Hell and only made Allighierian Hell based on presumptions and what he perceived Hell to be like. He didn't actually say to people that this is Hell, he was even exiled for the work. Over hundreds of years however, some people believe his canto's to be truthful.
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What he perceived hell to be like? How did he come up with that perception then?
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Perceive
Pronunciation:/pəˈsiːv/
verb
1 become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand:
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