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Dante's Inferno Flashcards

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Hell’s Vestibule

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The Opportunists: souls of people who were neither good nor evil; outcasts who took no sides

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Hell’s Vestibule: punishment

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given no place; pursued by wasps and hornets

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Circle 1 (Limbo)

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The Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Children

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Circle 1 (Limbo): punishment

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no hope; cannot come into the light of God

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Circle 2 (Lust)

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The Carnal; Minos

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Circle 2 (Lust): punishment

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forever swept by Hell’s Tempests

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Circle 3 (Gluttony)

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The Gluttons

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Circle 3 (Gluttony): punishment

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half-buried in a storm of stinking snow and vile slush; ripped apart and slavered over by Cerberus

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Circle 4 (Greed)

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The Hoarders and the Wasters

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Circle 4 (Greed): punishment

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pushes great boulders back and forth by mobs

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Circle 5 (Anger)

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The Wrathful and the Sullen

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Last station of upper hell

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The Marsh of Styx

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Circle 5 (Anger): punishment

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forever harm and be harmed by other wrathful souls; forever buried in the darkness below the stinking mud

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Circle 6 (Heresy)

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The Heretics

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capital of hell

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The iron city, Dis

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Circle 6 (Heresy): punishment

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forever encased in open iron tombs that are heated by great fires

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Circle 7 Round 1 (Violence)

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The Violent against Neighbors

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Circle 7 Round 1 (Violence): Punishment

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forever immersed in boiling blood each according to the degree of guilt

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Circle 7 Round 2 (Violence)

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The Violent against Themselves; The Suicides and the Squanderers

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Circle 7 Round 2 (Violence): punishment

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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

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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence)

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The Violent Against God, Nature, and Art

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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 1

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The Blasphemers (The Violent Against God)

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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 1: punishment

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forever lying flat on their backs on the burning sand and subjected to the rain of fire

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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 2

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The Sodomites (The Violent Against Nature)

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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 2: punishment
forever run across the burning desert as they try to avoid getting burned by the rain of fire
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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 3
The Usurers (The Violent Against Art)
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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 3: punishment
a heavy purse hangs around their neck
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Circe 8 (Fraud)
The Fraudulent and Malicious
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Circle 8 Bolgia 1 (Fraud)
The Panderers and Seducers
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Circle 8 Bolgia 1 (Fraud): punishment
chased by demons with great lashes
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Circle 8 Bolgia 2 (Fraud)
The Flatterers
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Circle 8 Bolgia 2 (Fraud): punishment
wallow in excrement or human waste
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Circle 8 Bolgia 3 (Fraud)
The Simoniacs
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Circle 8 Bolgia 3 (Fraud): punishment
placed upside down in baptismal fonts while being baptized by fire
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Circle 8 Bolgia 4 (Fraud)
The Fortune Tellers and Diviners
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Circle 8 Bolgia 4 (Fraud): punishment
distorted bodies with heads turned backward
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Circle 8 Bolgia 5 (Fraud)
The Grafters
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Circle 8 Bolgia 5 (Fraud): demons
Malacoda, Curlybeard, Catclaw, Crazyred, Pigtusk, Grafter, Dragontooth, Cramper, Deaddog, Grizzly
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Circle 8 Bolgia 6 (Fraud)
The Hypocrites
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Circle 8 Bolgia 6 (Fraud): punishment
wear heavy robes made of lead
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Circle 8 Bolgia 7 (Fraud)
The Thieves
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Circle 8 Bolgia 7 (Fraud): punishment
reptile pierces jugular vein of the sinner who bursts into flames
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Circle 8 Bolgia 8 (Fraud): punishment
forever hidden within great flames
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Circle 8 Bolgia 9 (Fraud)
The Sowers of Discord
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Circle 8 Bolgia 9 (Fraud) classes
the sowers of: religious discord, political discord, discord between kinsmen
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Circle 8 Bolgia 9 (Fraud): punishment
mutilated by a great demon
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Circle 8 Bolgia 10 (Fraud)
The Falsifiers
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Circle 8 Bolgia 10 (Fraud) classes
falsifiers of: thing (alchemists), persons (evil impersonators), money, (counterfeiters), words (false witnesses)
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Circle 8 Bolgia 10 (Fraud): punishment
sick society; darkness, stench, filth, thirst, loathsome diseases, and a shrieking noise
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The Central Pit of Malebolge
Giants and Titans
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The Central Pit of Malebolge: punishment
restrained forever in Hell's lowest pit
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Circle 9 (Treachery)
Cocytus; The Treacherous
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Circle 9 Round 1 (Treachery)
Caina (The Treacherous to Kin)
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Circle 9 Round 1 (Treachery): punishment
necks and bowed heads stick out of ice
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Circle 9 Round 2 (Treachery)
Antenora (The Treacherous to Country)
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Circle 9 Round 2 (Treachery): punishment
necks gripped by ice
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Circle 9 Round 3 (Treachery)
Ptolomea (The Treacherous to Guests and Hosts)
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Circle 9 Round 3 (Treachery): punishment
half their faces above the ice; tears freeze in their eye sockets; alive souls, demonized bodies
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Circle 9 Round 4 (Treachery)
Judecca (The Treacherous to Their Masters)
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Circle 9 Round 4 (Treachery): punishment
stuck in the ice and are isolated from others
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Circle 9 Center
Satan
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Satan
three faces, each mouth eternally ripping a sinner

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