Besides Dante, who else in Literature visited to Hell? maybe

Ulysses (the real one, not the meme) and Aeneas

>>8830811
Orpheus which is where the tradition originates in the west

There's a whole genre of this, even predating Dante. I would suggest picking this up. Nice anthology:
https://www.amazon.com/Visions-Heaven-Hell-Before-Dante/dp/0934977143

>>8830811
Orpheus, Odysseus, depending on your definition of "hell" Margarita (From Bulgakov's TM&M), I feel like at least one character from Twain's shirt stories or Roald Dahl's short stories must have.

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>>8830814
Appreciate the replies!

>>8830839
Yea I'm wondering of any modern allusions
all I can think of is that book Where Dreams May Come

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>>8830811

Pretty much every epic hero visits the underworld in some form at one point in their journey, whether its Aenaes or Odysseus literally going into hell, or Gawain in the Green Chapel which is more of a figurative hell

>>8830846
Really? I actually have two copies of that

>>8830839

>Have nice finely woven, cozy flannel shirt
>Be eating hot dog with extra mustard because it reminds me of cock and the one time I indulged in water sports
>Take a big bite because really enjoying this everyman experience with a subversive symbolic subtext
>Mustard oozes out
>I see it as if in slow motion: the mustard drops on my favourite shirt, given to me by my mother the Christmas before she died
>Run to bathroom, apply water and soap
>It's not coming-out.jpg
>Walk to toilet in stall, drop onto it
>Stare at the stall graffiti, poorly painted over
>Two single tears tickle my hot face and collect on my upper lip

From Shirt Stories, by Malcolm Twain, with a preface by Opisafaggot

The Navigation of St. Brendan

Patrician and obscure as fuck

>>8830845
ginsberg. pound and eliot depending on how strict your definition of modern is

>>8830900
Fawkin kek'd

Persephone and her pomegranates. Gloria Naylor wrote a book based loosely on Inferno. The title I cannot remember.

Vathek, by William Beckford.

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Priam in the Iliad.

Ferdyduke
1984
Under the Volcano

>>8830900
>Being a pedantic faggot

Jesus

Not calling the Bible fiction btw

Montesquieu and Macchiaveli