DIVINE COMEDY

• Beatrice - Dante fell passionately in love with her as a young man.
• Virgil - Dante's guide through the depths of Hell.
• Dante Alighieri - The author and protagonist of inferno.
• The Divine Comedy - A long narrative poem that began on 1308 and completed in 1320.
• Minos - The giant beast who stands at the second circle of hell.
• Charon - Old man who ferries souls across the river Acheron to Hell.
• Paolo and Francesca - A pair of lovers condemned to the second circle of hell.
• Satan - Also known as Lucifer or Dis, he is embedded in a frozen marsh at the center of the earth.
• Cerberus - The three-headed dog placed by Dante as the guard of the gluttonous in the Inferno.
• Minotaur - A mythlogical monster, half man half bull. He guards the entrance to the seventh circle.
• Chiron - The leader of the centaurs, half men half horses, who guard those who committed violence against their fellowman.
• Limbo:

  • Here resided the virtuous pagans and the un-baptized.
  • They are without sin, but they never accepted Christ.
  • There is no punishment, just no hope.
  • Famous people who reside here: Socrates, Plato, Homer, Virgil
• 2nd Circle: The Lustful

  • As they enter this circle they come to face to face with Minos.
  • Souls confess their sins to Minos and he wraps his tail around the sinner to determine the level of Hell they will occupy.
  • The souls of the lustful are blow about violent wind.
  • Famous people here: Achilles, Paris, Cleopatra.
• 3rd Circle: Gluttony

  • The gluttons lie in mud and muck while filth rains down upon them from the sky.
  • Some are even ripped apart by Cerberus.
• 4th Circle: Greed

  • In this circle the greedy and the wasteful are punished.
  • Both sets of sinners joust each other with great boulders that they must push toward each other and then apart again.
  • They are watched over by Plutus.
• 5th Circle: Wrathful and Sullen

  • The wrathful fight each other on the surface of the water while the sullen are held beneath the water
• 6th Circle: Heresy

  • Here the heretics are burned and buried in fiery tombs.
• 7th Circle: Violence

  • Outer Ring: Violent Against Neighbor

  • They are immersed in the Phlegethon, a river of boiling blood.

  • Middle Ring: Violent Against self

  • Suicides are turned into twisted bushes and trees and are feed on by Harpies

  • Inner Ring: Violent Against God

  • The sinners must lat in the desert of flaming sands. Fire rains down upon them from the sky, ripping away their flesh.
• 8th Circle: Fraud

  • Bolgia 1: Panderers and Seducers

  • Bolgia 2: Flatters

  • Bolgia 3: Simony

  • Bolgia 4: Fortune Tellers and Diviners

  • Bolgia 5: The Grafters

  • Bolgia 6: The Hypocrites

  • Bolgia 7: The Thieves

  • Bolgia 8: Evil Counselors

  • Bolgia 9: Sowers of Discord

  • Bolgia 10: Falsifiers
• 9th Circle: Treachery

  • The central circle in Hell.
• 9th Circle: Treachery

  Round 1: Caina

  • Cain - killed his brother

  Round 2: Antenora

  • Antenor - betrayed city to the Greeks

  Round 3: Ptolomaea

  • Ptolemy - killed his guest and ate them

  Round 4: Judecca

  • Judas - betrayed Jesus
• Judas - the betrayer of Christ
• Brutus, Cassius - the betrayer or Julius Caesar
• Who was sent as a guide for Dante's journey through hell?

  • Virgil
• Dante faced what creatures when he reached the edge of the forest?

  • Leopard, lion, she wolf
• The place where those who wait to be judged is called __

  • Limbo
• Above the gates of hell there is a sign that said to Abandon All __

  • hope
• Dante was filled with joy when Virgil called him son.
• The gluttons were in hell for their love of food.