Dante Flashcards

0
Q

Canto 1 poet

A

Virgil

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1
Q

Canto 1: three animals

A

Leopard, lion, she wolf

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2
Q

Canto 1 animal that will come back to chase the she wolf back to hell

A

Hound

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3
Q

Canto 2 Dante’s love

A

Beatrice

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4
Q

Canto 2 seeks help for Dante

A

Beatrice

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5
Q

Canto 3 first group encountered before entering the first circle

A

Did not make deliberate moral choices so are kept out of hell

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6
Q

Canto 3 gives the boat ride

A

Charon

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7
Q

First circle of hell

A

Limbo

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8
Q

Who is in the first circle of hell

A

Those who lived before Christ

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9
Q

Who was allowed to leave limbo

A

Moses

Noah

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10
Q

Specific

People seen in limbo

A
Aristotle 
Socrates
Plato
Homer
Horace
Ovid
Lucan
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11
Q

Stands at the door between the first and second circle

A

Minos

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12
Q

Wraps his tail around sinners telling them which circle to goto

A

Minos

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13
Q

Second circle is for the

A

Lustful

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14
Q

Lustful woman who speaks to Dante in the second circle

A

Francesca

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15
Q

Stand at the third circle of hell

A

Cerberus

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16
Q

3rd circle if hell

A

Gluttonous

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17
Q

Person who speaks to Dante

In the 3rd circle

A

Ciacco

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18
Q

Ciacco city

A

Florence

19
Q

Demon encountered at the 4th circle of hell

A

Plutus

20
Q

Who is in the 4th circle

A

Those who squandered fortune

21
Q

River between the fourth and fifth circle

A

Styx

22
Q

Who is in the river Styx

A

Sullen

23
Q

Who is on the bank

Of the Styx

A

Wrathful

24
Q

Boatman across the river Styx

A

Phylegyas

25
Q

Sinner they encounter on the way to circle 5

A

Argenti

26
Q

City of Lower Hell

A

Dis

27
Q

Who does Dante encounter at the 6th gate

A

Three furies

28
Q

What is a fury

A

Half woman half serpent

29
Q

Who do the furies call for

A

Medusa

30
Q

How do they get into the 6th

Circle

A

A messenger from heaven

31
Q

Who

Is in the 6th circle

A

Heretics

32
Q

Person Dante speaks with in the 6th circle

A

Farinata. Political leader from Dante’s time

33
Q

Those in the
6 th circle
Can only

A

See

The future not the present

34
Q

Who interrupts the conversation between Dante

And Farinata

A

Cavalcanti. Father of
Dante’s
Friend Guido.

35
Q

What does cavalcanti think.

A

That his son is dead

36
Q

At the edge of circle 7 they rest at the tomb of

A

Pope Anastasius

37
Q

The 7 th circle is divided into 3 smaller circles

A

Violence against neighbor
Then self
Then god

38
Q

Eighth circle punishes

A

Normal fraud.

39
Q

9th circle punishes

A

Those that betray special relationships

40
Q

Monster met at the edge of the 7th circle

A

Minotaur

41
Q

What is the punishment for those who committed

Violence against neighbors

A

Boiled in blood

42
Q

Who almost shoots Dante with an arrow in the 7th circle

A

Centaur named Chiron

43
Q

What centaur guides them
Safely
In part of the 7 th circle

A

Nessus

44
Q

Famous names in the first part of the 7th circle

A

Alexander the Great

Atila the Hun.