Dante's Inferno Flashcards

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Level 1

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Limbo (pre-Christ people, unbaptized, famous poets/philosophers/etc.)

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Level 2

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Lustful

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Level 3

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Gluttonous

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Level 4

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Hoarders and Spendthrifts

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Level 5

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Wrathful

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Level 6

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Heretics

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Level 7

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Violent (1. against others | 2. against self | 3. against God/nature)

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Level 8

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Fraudulent (10 subcategories)

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Level 9

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Traitors (1. to kin | 2. to country | 3. to guests | 4. to benefactors)

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Limbo punishment

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eternal waiting room

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Lustful punishment

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whirling storm

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Gluttonous punishment

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Pursued by Cerberus; covered in gunk, forced to eat it, etc.

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Hoarders and Spendthrifts punishments

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roll huge weights back and forth against each other

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Wrathful punishment

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River Styx; fighting in the blood/sweat/mud

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Heretics punishment

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shades in flaming tombs, to be saved or sealed by Jesus on judgement day

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Violent punishments (3)

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  1. River of boiling blood
  2. Thorny bush fed on by Harpies
  3. flaming desert with fire snow
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Fraudulent punishments (10)

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ten ditches:

  1. panderers/seducers - whipped by demons
  2. flatterers - immersed in human waste
  3. simonists - upside down in baptismal fonts w/ feet aflame
  4. astrologists/seers/sorcerers - heads twisted around backwards
  5. grafters - river of boiling tar
  6. hypocrites - ornate lead-lined cloaks
  7. thieves - some transformed into serpents, biting each other to transform back to human
  8. deceivers (false advice) - constantly ablaze
  9. promoters of scandal and schism - wounded by a sword-wielding demon
  10. falsifiers: alchemists - rashes | impostors - dropsy | counterfeiters - leprosy | liars - consumption
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Traitor punishments

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  1. frozen to neck
  2. frozen to neck
  3. frozen on back w/ only face exposed, tears freezing
  4. frozen completely