Dante's Inferno Flashcards
Hell’s Vestibule
The Opportunists: souls of people who were neither good nor evil; outcasts who took no sides
Hell’s Vestibule: punishment
given no place; pursued by wasps and hornets
Circle 1 (Limbo)
The Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Children
Circle 1 (Limbo): punishment
no hope; cannot come into the light of God
Circle 2 (Lust)
The Carnal; Minos
Circle 2 (Lust): punishment
forever swept by Hell’s Tempests
Circle 3 (Gluttony)
The Gluttons
Circle 3 (Gluttony): punishment
half-buried in a storm of stinking snow and vile slush; ripped apart and slavered over by Cerberus
Circle 4 (Greed)
The Hoarders and the Wasters
Circle 4 (Greed): punishment
pushes great boulders back and forth by mobs
Circle 5 (Anger)
The Wrathful and the Sullen
Last station of upper hell
The Marsh of Styx
Circle 5 (Anger): punishment
forever harm and be harmed by other wrathful souls; forever buried in the darkness below the stinking mud
Circle 6 (Heresy)
The Heretics
capital of hell
The iron city, Dis
Circle 6 (Heresy): punishment
forever encased in open iron tombs that are heated by great fires
Circle 7 Round 1 (Violence)
The Violent against Neighbors
Circle 7 Round 1 (Violence): Punishment
forever immersed in boiling blood each according to the degree of guilt
Circle 7 Round 2 (Violence)
The Violent against Themselves; The Suicides and the Squanderers
Circle 7 Round 2 (Violence): punishment
encased in thorny trees and wounded by Harpies; driven naked through the thorny wood as they are pursued and torn into pieces by hungry beasts
Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence)
The Violent Against God, Nature, and Art
Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 1
The Blasphemers (The Violent Against God)
Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 1: punishment
forever lying flat on their backs on the burning sand and subjected to the rain of fire
Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 2
The Sodomites (The Violent Against Nature)