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I know very little very little about Dante's motivations behind writing, apart from a vague understanding it was politically motivated.
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Pretty much spot on that it was politically motivated. I think he also wrote it somewhat for himself, as he did put himself next to his favourite poet for the whole journey.
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I never claimed that it was his perception of hell. That was entirely my point; he had no reason to believe that in hell you are attacked by a three-headed-monster (and then go on to describe it in detail) so obviously it is bullshit; and he knew it.
And how do you not see that it does not matter whose morals they are. I was not saying Homer was immoral I was saying the story was.
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Your perception of something is basically how you look it it. If that is how he imagined Hell, then that is his perception, and that is all that he wanted to share with other people. Much like any fiction book, or any other vaguely religious text.
Saying that he had no reason to believe in those things? Well, what reason did anyone have to believe that Jesus came back from the dead, that the Red Sea was parted, and that the world was made in six days by some kind of almighty being? Nothing. It was just people's perception of what happened.
Also, The Iliad and The Odyssey both had pretty well defined moral ideals, some even applicable today.
