Sinon in Other Literature
In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Sinon is seen in the Tenth Bolgia of Hell's Circle of Fraud where along with other Falsifiers of words, he is condemned to suffer a burning fever for all eternity. Sinon is here rather than the Evil Counselors Bolgia because his advice was false as well as evil.
William Shakespeare referred to Sinon on several occasions in his work, using him as a symbol of treachery.
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