Periphery of Hell: Canto 3

Question 1

Canto 3

Answer 1

Periphery of Hell: Cowardess

Question 2

‘Leave behind all hope,…’

Answer 2

‘Leave behind all hope, you who enter’

Question 3

‘those who lived without…’

Answer 3

‘those who lived without shame and without honor’

Question 4

‘let’s not talk about them,…’

Answer 4

‘let’s not talk about them, just look and move on’

Question 5

encounters:

Answer 5

cowards and Charon

Question 6

Periphery of Hell: Cowardess

Answer 6

Racing after a banner that never comes to a stop, these cowardly souls are repeatedly stung by flies and wasps, their blood and tears becoming food for the worms at their feet.

Question 7

Charon

Answer 7

Charon is the pilot of a vessel that transports shades of the dead, newly arrived from the world above, across the waters of the Acheron into the lower world. An irascible old man - with white hair and fiery eyes - who at first objects to taking a living man on his boat.