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Inferno Flashcards

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Dante

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Author and main character of book

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Virgil

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Guide of Dante through hell

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Beatrice

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One who orchestrated Dante’s journey

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Francesca (and Paolo)

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Circle 2; Punished in first circle of hell for adultery

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Caiaphas

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Circle 8; High priest of Jerusalem; Punished in eighth circle of hell as a hypocrite

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Vanni Fucci

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Circle 8; A thief punished for stealing holy objects; gives God the proverbial finger

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Ulysses and Diomede

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Circle 8; Heroes from the war against Troy; sins: Tojan Horse, luring Achilles into war, stealing the Palladium

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Mahomet

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Circle 8 Chasm 9; Sowers of Discord, disemboweled;

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Bocca

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Circle 9; Gets kicked and beaten by Dante

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Ugolino

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Circle 9; Eats the back of another’s head; betrayed his people

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Judas

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Circle 9; being chewed on by Satan

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Brutus and Cassius

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Circle 9; being chewed on by Satan; Assassinated Julius Caesar

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Charon

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Pilot of a boat that transports shades of the dead across the waters into the lower world

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Cerberus

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Three-headed dog who guards the entrance to the classical underworld

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Plutus

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Guardian of Circle 4

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Minotaur

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Circle 7 (Violence); uncontrollable man-eater

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Harpies

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Circle 7 part 2 (Violence to self); picks branches off of trees of suicides

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Medusa

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Circle 5; One of the Gorgons; Stone

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Geryon

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Circle 7; “three-bodied shade”; image of fraud; cruel king slain by Hercules

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Malabranche

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Circle 8 Bolgia Five; force barrators to stay under boiling pitch

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Giants (Antaeus and Nimrod)

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Nimrod (Tower of Babel); Antaeus (Lifts Dante and Virgil onto the floor of hell)

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Lucifer

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Absolute Demon; way out of hell; chews some guys

Western Civ Dates (5 decks)

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