Dante's Inferno Circles and Important Things/People Dark Wood - Correct Answer Dante awakes to find himself in here. He was lead here by sin and is approached by the she wolf, lion, and lepoard. He meets Virgil hear.She-Wolf - Correct Answer Represents Greed; Beast Dante is most afraid of Leopard - Correct Answer Represents Lust and Luxury Lion - Correct Answer Represents Pride Virgil - Correct Answer Represents Reason; Leads Dante through Hell Vestibule - Correct Answer Those who did not chose good or evil; They will forever chase a banner and be stung by wasps while their blood is eaten by magots; They are given no real place in Hell because they took no stand in Life for good or evil.Circle 1 - Correct Answer Limbo; Virtuous Pagans; People who lived virtuous lives but before God/lacked the revelation of Christ; They live without hope of ever seeing God because human reason alone is not enough to get into heaven.Circle 2 - Correct Answer Lustful; They are forever blown around by winds just as they were blown around by their lust.Circle 3 - Correct Answer Gluttons; Their senses are overly burdened because in life they overly pleased them.Circle 4 - Correct Answer Avaricious and Prodigal; They produce nothing worthful from their work in life and Therfore Produce nothing worthful from pushing the weights across each side of the circle in Hell.Circle 5 - Correct Answer The angry and sullen; They are trapped in the slime of the styx and the sullen are stuck underneath the slime and not seen. 1 / 2
Circle 6 - Correct Answer Heretics; They are burning in open tombs with the lead heretic watching all those he lead astray suffer; On Judgement Day the tombs will be eternally sealed.Circle 7 - Correct Answer Violence; Against Neighbors, Against Self, Against God Circle 7 1st Ring - Correct Answer Violence Against Neighbors; In Boiling Blood of the river Phlegathon; The blood of those they were violent towards is drowing them Circle 7 2nd Ring - Correct Answer Violence against Self; The trees have no resembalence to the bodies they destroyed. The Harpies at them eternally and when their branches are broken they bleed and then can speak.Circle 7 3rd Ring - Correct Answer Violence against God; Burning Sand; Sodomites run around the Sand; Blasphemers are laid down on the sand with firey rain from God raining down on them. The Userers are croutched on the sand.Circle 8 - Correct Answer Sins of Fraud, Has 10 Bolgias.Circle 8 Bolgia 1 - Correct Answer Panders and Seducers; Whipped by evil demons because they constantly led others to serve their evil wills and now are led by evil.Circle 8 Bolgia 2 - Correct Answer Flatters; Covered in filth (human excrement) Circle 8 Bolgia 3 - Correct Answer Simonists; Upside down in holes with the soles of their feet on fire; They mocked their holy offices and the holy offices now mock them (the holes represent thier holy office) Circle 8 Bolgia 4 - Correct Answer Soothsayers; Their heads are turned backwards because of the future they saw in life and it is now forbidden to see ahead of them in Hell.Circle 8 Bolgia 5 - Correct Answer Grafters; Grafters are suspended in hot pitch and whenever they come above it the demons stab them and send them back; The demons are greedy to get their hands on them like they were greedy to get their hands on things.Circle 8 Bolgia 6 - Correct Answer Hypocrites; Wear cloaks that are beutiful and gilded but leaded on the inside so that the cloaks hid the shades identity as well as the true identity of the cloak itself.
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