Inferno Flashcards
Dante
Author and main character of book
Virgil
Guide of Dante through hell
Beatrice
One who orchestrated Dante’s journey
Francesca (and Paolo)
Circle 2; Punished in first circle of hell for adultery
Caiaphas
Circle 8; High priest of Jerusalem; Punished in eighth circle of hell as a hypocrite
Vanni Fucci
Circle 8; A thief punished for stealing holy objects; gives God the proverbial finger
Ulysses and Diomede
Circle 8; Heroes from the war against Troy; sins: Tojan Horse, luring Achilles into war, stealing the Palladium
Mahomet
Circle 8 Chasm 9; Sowers of Discord, disemboweled;
Bocca
Circle 9; Gets kicked and beaten by Dante
Ugolino
Circle 9; Eats the back of another’s head; betrayed his people
Judas
Circle 9; being chewed on by Satan
Brutus and Cassius
Circle 9; being chewed on by Satan; Assassinated Julius Caesar
Charon
Pilot of a boat that transports shades of the dead across the waters into the lower world
Cerberus
Three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the classical underworld
Plutus
Guardian of Circle 4
Minotaur
Circle 7 (Violence); uncontrollable man-eater
Harpies
Circle 7 part 2 (Violence to self); picks branches off of trees of suicides
Medusa
Circle 5; One of the Gorgons; Stone
Geryon
Circle 7; “three-bodied shade”; image of fraud; cruel king slain by Hercules
Malabranche
Circle 8 Bolgia Five; force barrators to stay under boiling pitch
Giants (Antaeus and Nimrod)
Nimrod (Tower of Babel); Antaeus (Lifts Dante and Virgil onto the floor of hell)
Lucifer
Absolute Demon; way out of hell; chews some guys
