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Dantes Inferno Test Flashcards

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What is the punishment and symbolism for the lobby

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They are chasing a flying scroll that they will never catch. They are being attacked by insects, and there eyes are bleeding
(Before They were in hell, they decided not to make a decision, and now they are compelled to make a decision to chase the scroll.)

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What are the levels of hell in order

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  1. limbo
  2. lustful
  3. gluttonous
  4. greed
  5. wrathful/sullen(anger)
  6. heretics
  7. wrath(violence)
  8. fraud
  9. Trechary
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What type of people live in the lobby, any notable

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The people who reside here are the angels who did not take a side in the war between god and lucifer. (Charon)

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What is the punishment and symbolism for circle 1

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The residents are in a flowery meadow eternally sighing because they will never know god.(this is symbolic because in life they didn’t know god and now they are sad about it)

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What type of people reside in circle 1(any notable)

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People who did not know god.

Plato,Aristotle, Virgil, homer

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What is the punishment and symbolism for the people who reside in circle 2

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The people who committed lust are buffeted around and around in a tornado. They are eternally able to look at what they want, but aren’t able to touch eachother
(People who committed lust in life are able to see what they lust for, however they never do what they want to it.)

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What type of people reside in circle 2(any notable)

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People who committed lust in life

Francesca, paolo, and Midas

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What is the punishment and symbolism for the people who reside in circle 3

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The people who were in this level are laying in mud, while being pounded on by weather, then they are eternally eaten by cerberus
(This is symbolic because in life, they ate and ate, and were never full, now, in hell, cerberus eats and eats and is never full)

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What type of people reside in circle 3 (any notable)

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People who were addicted to eating and drinking during life

Hungry jacko/ciacco, and Cerberus

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What is the punishment and symbolism for the people who reside in circle 4

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The people in this level are eternally pushing boulders in a circle, then collide, and turn around and walk the same path in reverse inly to do it again.
(In life they were in an endless circle of spending and hoarding, now they are endlessly pushing a boulder.)

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What type of people reside in circle 4 (any notable)

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People in this level are people who were very greedy.

Hoarders and spenders, hades and priests

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What is the punishment and symbolism for circle 5

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The people who physically fought wre eternally fighting in a bog, the people who kept it bottled up were crying underneath them
(This is symbolic because in life they fought and now they do to, also in life they bottled it up, now they cant say anything)

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What type of people reside in circle 5 (any notable)

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People who our wrathful and fought in life

Filippo argenti, people who physically fought, and people who bottled it up.Fliggeas

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What happens at the gates of dis and why does Dante flip out

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The backstage pass is denied, but then Gabriel comes and saves them

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Notable people from the gates of dis

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Furies, Gabriel, medusa

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What is the punishment and symbolism for the residents of circle 6

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They reside in burning tombs

In life they burned with their words by spreading slander, but now they burn in tombs

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Who resided in circle 6

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The heretics( went away from what gods said)

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What are the rings in circle 7

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  1. Violent against your neighbors
  2. Suicides
  3. Blasphemes and sodomites
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What is the punishment and symbolism for ring 1 of wrath(7)

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Violent against ones neighbors: reside in a boiling river of blood, centaurs roam the banks and shoot everyone who tries to get out.
-this is symbolic because they caused bloodshed in life, and now blood is there punishment.

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What is the punishment and symbolism for ring 2 of wrath(7)

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Ring 2. Suicides, they are turned into trees which can feel pain, the harpies eternally torture them by ripping off leaves and limbs.
-since they denied life, they are deprived of bodies and turned into trees, that feel pain, and bleed when broken,

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What is the punishment and symbolism for ring 3 of wrath(7)

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Blasphemes (saying stuff that offends god) they reside in a fiery desert, with raining flakes on them
sodomites (homosexuals) must eternally run in the fiery flakes
usurers (like a loan shark, he makes money off of another person) must eternally sit in the fiery flakes.

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What are the names of the subsections in circle 8, also what sin is it

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Fraud

  1. panderers/seducers
  2. flatterers
  3. simmoniacs
  4. sorcerers
  5. corrupt polititions
  6. hypocrites
  7. Thieves
  8. counselors
  9. sowers of discourd
  10. falsifiers.
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Circle 8 section 1 panderers and seducers

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the pimps (panderars) -people who used women(seducers) usually male 
-eternally walking in single file lines being whipped by horned demons (treated women like slaves, now they are treated like slaves)
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Circle 8section 2 (flatterers)

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people who talked people up to get something.

-they swim in a lake of poop, (is symbolized the world they created.

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Circle 8 section 3(Simoniacs)

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People who Abused power within the church
-they were stuck head first into baptism pools, and there feet are on fire.(they used the church so now they are in the church )

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Circle 8 section 4 sorcery

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people who attempt to change the future by perverting gods love
- there heads are twisted backwards so they can’t see foreward (they can never see forward

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Circle 8 part 5Corrupt polititions

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  • leaders who use there power for themselves
  • they are thrown into a boiling river of pitch(like sap) and tar (the pitch represents there false ideas and corrupt deals, they are now suffering in what they used to there benefit)
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Circle 8 part 6 hypocrites

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when you say not to do anything but do it
-ciaphus is laying on the cross preparing to be crucified, however everyone is walking over him, they are wearing gold plated jackets that are lead on the inside(the jackets appear good, but are bad on the inside, also ciaphus allowed Jesus to be crucified, now he is to be crucified.

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Circle 8 part 7 Thieves

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people who deceived people and stole large amounts of stuff
-they were viciously attacked by a reptile, or they are squeezed by a snake until the two become one, or they turn into ahs then (in life these people took things from others, and in death they have everything taken from them even there identities)

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Circle 8 part 10 falsifiers

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peopel who made false money(alchemists)

-they are plagued with diseases (when dp false currency is introduced into a society it plagues the society

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What is symbolic about the begining of the inferno

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He passes a leopard(fraudulence) a lion (pride) and a she wolf (greed)
Dante was on the true path but then strayed away, this symbolisess a Ptah of sin

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Why is the inferno a comedy

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It has a happy ending and makes fun of politics

32
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What are the traditional seven deadly sins

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(in Christian tradition) the sins of pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth.

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What is in the final layer of hell? Who is in these rings

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Ring 1: caïna named after akin who killed his brother( ice up to chins)
Ring 2:Antenora, after Antenor of Troy, who according to medieval tradition, betrayed his city to the Greeks. Traitors to political entities,
Ring 3. Ptolomaea, probably after Ptolemy, son of Abubus, who invited Simon Maccabaeus and his sons to a banquet and then killed them
Ring 4.Round 4 is named Judecca, after Judas Iscariot, Biblical betrayer of Christ. Here are the traitors to their lords and benefactors. All of the sinners punished within are completely encapsulated in ice, distorted in all conceivable positions. With no one to talk to here, Dante and Virgil quickly move on to the centre of Hell (Canto XXXIV).

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Describe the center of hell who is there

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It is icy, and satan is trapped waist deep in ice, hw has three faces
Brutus and Cassius are feet-first in the left and right mouths respectively, for their involvement in the assassination of Julius Caesar – an act which, to Dante, represented the destruction of a unified Italy and the killing of the man who was divinely appointed to govern the world

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How does Dante twist our traditional view of hell

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The bottom is frozen

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Who was Virgil

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He was a Greek poet and Dante’s guide through hell. He wrote such epics as the Aeneid

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Who is Beatrice what is her role

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She is Dante’s love she represents the gifts of heaven

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Where is Dante from

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Florence, Italy

39
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Describe a Ptolemaic universe

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There are 10 rings outside of earth, 9+one for your homie. God is the top ring. The furthest from his warmth is at the center of the earth is satan

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What is empyrean

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It is heaven

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How is numerology used in the inferno

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It is used with 3 Nd multiples of 3 such as 9 rings of hell plus one for your homie, and 9 solar rings plus one for your homie

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What is Limbo? Why are babies in Limbo? Why is this place in hell, but the people there do not suffer like
those in deeper circles

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Limbo is the second circle of hell. Babies are her because they may have died before they were baptized. It is not as severe because some people may not have had the chance to know god. Such as people born befor Christianity. Dante had to put them in here because he is a perfectionist lol

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Minos: what’s his role in the story? Who was he in mythology?

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Minos is the guardian to circle 2. He wraps his tail around people the number of themes as the level and sends them to that level. In mythology he was king of Crete every year he sent 7 young boys and girls to the labrynth to be eaten by the Minotaur.

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When was the inferno written

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Between 1308 and 1321ad

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Charon: what’s his role in the story? Who was he in mythology?

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In the inferno he is a ferryman who takes Dante across a river. Also in mythology he took people across the river Styx

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Plautus in the inferno

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Plutus is a demon of wealth who guards the fourth circle of Hell,in mythology, he is the ruler of the underworld

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Where is the river Styx in Dante’s inferno( in mythology)

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It comprises most of circle 5 in mythology it was the barrier into the underworld

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Phlegyas: who is he? Where is he? (don’t confuse him with Charon)

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He is the son of ares who burned down the temple at Delphi Dante unknowingly rides across the Styx on the wrathful demigod’s crown.

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Gates of dis What? Where? You should know the details. Why mosques? Why does Virgil struggle at the gate
of Dis?

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In “The Inferno”, Dante and Virgil arrive at the gates of the City of Dis after crossing the fifth circle. The walls of the city encompassed the sixth circle of Hell, and all other circles then below. The gates are guarded by Fallen Angels, the Furies and Medusa who threaten Dante, who is protected by Virgil. The hall pass is denied because they are fallen angels but it works when Gabriel comesThe walls of Dis are guarded by fallen angels and the Erinyes (Furies). Dante emphasizes the character of the place as a city by describing its architectural features: towers, gates, walls, ramparts, bridges, and moats. It is thus an antithesis to the heavenly city, as for instance described by St. Augustine in his City of God.[3] Among these structures are mosques, “the worship places of the most dangerous enemies of medieval Christendom.”[4] In Dante’s schematics of Hell, some Muslims and Jews are placed among the heretics. The presence of mosques probably also recalls the reality of Jerusalem in Dante’s own time, where gilded domes dominated the skyline.[5]

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Furies in the inferno and mythology

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The furies laugh at Dante and tell medusa to turn him into stone
One of three goddesses who executed curses on criminals

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Medusa in the story vs in mythology

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Medusa is a gorgon who tries to turn Dante to stone yap the gates of dis. In mythology she is a gorgon who turns people to stone

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Filippo Argenti: Who was he (what’s the story about him and Dante)? Why is he in hell?

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A famous polititions in Florence Italy. He is famous for kicking Dante out of Florence. He is in hell for being wrathful

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