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Students go to hell and back in this course that looks at depictions of the damned throughout the ages

  • Written by Robert Gordon Joseph, Senior Lecturer of Communication, University of Dayton
imageVisions of hell have varied in books and movies throughout the years.wera Rodsawang/Moment via Getty Imagesimage

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“Road to Hell: The Apocalypse in Classical and Contemporary Forms”

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