Cantos 6-10 Flashcards
Cerberus
Eats the gluttons
Pluto
Guards the borders in waster
Styx
Where they cross into the realm of violence it is where the wrathfully dwell
Phiegyas
He guards the circle of wrath. He is the son of Mars
City of dis
Where the heretics are and the Epicurions are being burned and coffins non-Christians and Muslims and Jews are here. Virgil struggles because he’s from the first realm
Furies
In mythology they hunted people who killed the family member of anothe
Medusa
The Furrys threatened to use her against Dante and Virgil if they don’t leave she was the monster who turned people to stone
Epicurus
He started the philosophy if they’ve been no afterlife so you have to live to the fullest and be a good person or people forgot being a good person and started partying he’s in hell because he didn’t believe in God
Filipino argenti Phil silvers
Hit Dante when he was little so Dante put him in hell
Dantes moral development
He become a stronger and angrier (seven deadly sins)
Order of sins
Lust gluttony Greed Wrath Sloth Envy Pride
Foreshadowing
A hint for future event
Allegory
2 symbolic and literal meaning
Microcosm
Small universe
Inherent
Existing in something as a permanent characteristic
