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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

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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

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The Usurers (The Violent Against Art)

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Circle 7 Round 3 (Violence) Type 3: punishment

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a heavy purse hangs around their neck

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Circe 8 (Fraud)

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The Fraudulent and Malicious

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Circle 8 Bolgia 1 (Fraud)

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The Panderers and Seducers

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Circle 8 Bolgia 1 (Fraud): punishment

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chased by demons with great lashes

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Circle 8 Bolgia 2 (Fraud)

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The Flatterers

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Circle 8 Bolgia 2 (Fraud): punishment

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wallow in excrement or human waste

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Circle 8 Bolgia 3 (Fraud)

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The Simoniacs

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Circle 8 Bolgia 3 (Fraud): punishment

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placed upside down in baptismal fonts while being baptized by fire

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Circle 8 Bolgia 4 (Fraud)

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The Fortune Tellers and Diviners

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Circle 8 Bolgia 4 (Fraud): punishment

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distorted bodies with heads turned backward

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Circle 8 Bolgia 5 (Fraud)

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The Grafters

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Circle 8 Bolgia 5 (Fraud): demons

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Malacoda, Curlybeard, Catclaw, Crazyred, Pigtusk, Grafter, Dragontooth, Cramper, Deaddog, Grizzly

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Circle 8 Bolgia 6 (Fraud)

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The Hypocrites

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Circle 8 Bolgia 6 (Fraud): punishment

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wear heavy robes made of lead

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Circle 8 Bolgia 7 (Fraud)

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The Thieves

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Circle 8 Bolgia 7 (Fraud): punishment

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reptile pierces jugular vein of the sinner who bursts into flames

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Circle 8 Bolgia 8 (Fraud): punishment

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forever hidden within great flames

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Circle 8 Bolgia 9 (Fraud)

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The Sowers of Discord

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Circle 8 Bolgia 9 (Fraud) classes

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the sowers of: religious discord, political discord, discord between kinsmen

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Circle 8 Bolgia 9 (Fraud): punishment

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mutilated by a great demon

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Circle 8 Bolgia 10 (Fraud)

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The Falsifiers

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Circle 8 Bolgia 10 (Fraud) classes

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falsifiers of: thing (alchemists), persons (evil impersonators), money, (counterfeiters), words (false witnesses)

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Circle 8 Bolgia 10 (Fraud): punishment

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sick society; darkness, stench, filth, thirst, loathsome diseases, and a shrieking noise

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The Central Pit of Malebolge

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Giants and Titans

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The Central Pit of Malebolge: punishment

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restrained forever in Hell’s lowest pit

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Circle 9 (Treachery)

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Cocytus; The Treacherous

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Circle 9 Round 1 (Treachery)

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Caina (The Treacherous to Kin)

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Circle 9 Round 1 (Treachery): punishment

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necks and bowed heads stick out of ice

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Circle 9 Round 2 (Treachery)

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Antenora (The Treacherous to Country)

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Circle 9 Round 2 (Treachery): punishment

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necks gripped by ice

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Circle 9 Round 3 (Treachery)

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Ptolomea (The Treacherous to Guests and Hosts)

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Circle 9 Round 3 (Treachery): punishment

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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)

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Judecca (The Treacherous to Their Masters)

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Circle 9 Round 4 (Treachery): punishment

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stuck in the ice and are isolated from others

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Circle 9 Center

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Satan

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three faces, each mouth eternally ripping a sinner

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