The Justest Trojan

Rhipeus, the fall of Troy, and the reach of grace

Virgil gives a few lines to a Trojan whose justice does not prevent his death. Dante gives him a place among the saved and asks how anyone on earth could have expected it. The answer turns from what a human witness can see to the hidden reach of grace.

1. Aeneid 2.424–430
2. Paradiso 20.67–72
3. Paradiso 20.118–129