epic poetry

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limbo

the space reserved for those souls who died before baptism

lust

for the ones that died because of being love crazy

gluttons

overindulged in food, drink, or something else in their lives. Their punishment is to wallow in disgusting mire created by eternally falling rain, hail, sleet, and snow. cyrebrus barking

greedy

cysphian task rolling a boulder

wrathful

angry people with constant and violent arguments

heresy

false teachings/ beliefs of christinity trapped in flaming tombs for eternity.

violence

murderers, suicide, blashphemy; worst sin of all submerged in boiling blood

fraud

seducers: run naked, flatterers: fraud divided into ten bolgias (ditches), where those who committed fraud suffer various tortures corresponding to their deceitful actions.

betrayal/ treachery

also known as treachery; betrayal of god/family/country last layer judas, brutus and casias  where traitors are frozen in a lake of ice, with Satan himself trapped at the center.

who wrote the odyssey

homer

who wrote beouwolf

an unknown author

who wrote inferno

dante

Hrothgar

king of the Danes and the lord of the great hall, Heorot

Breca

Beowulf's childhood friend

herot

a great hall, and one large enough that Beowulf could be gifted eight horses within.

Swimming contest

Breca defeated Beowulf

Grendel’s defeat

Beowulf wins the battle with Grendel by tearing off Grendel's arm. Grendel goes to his swamp to die. In celebration, Beowulf hangs Grendel's arm as a trophy and sign of victory that good has triumphed over evil.

Christian and pagan

Beowulf blends elements of both Christian and pagan traditions, reflecting the transition in religious beliefs during the time the poem was composed.

Sigemund

kill dragon

Mother of Grendel

killed her with giants sword

cain

grendels tribe

hrunting

a sword that belongs to Unferth, who at one point has a drunken dispute with Beowulf loaned to him by unferth

giants sword

beowulf finds it in the cave and is able to kill the mother with it. The sword melts to its hilt after Beowulf uses it to decapitate the corpse of Grendel, which lies nearby.

old english

beowulf

Middle English

Chaucer

modern english

shakesphere

Dante the character vs Dante the author

author knows everything character doesnt know what is happening

inferno

the first part of the comedy

unferth

didnt like beowolf in beggining and likes him at end and he gave beowulf the sword

virgil

dantes guide, leads him to bottom

9 Circles of hell

limbo, lust, gluttony, greedy, wrathful, heretics, violent, fraudulent, treacherous

minos

he judges how the people have to be punished with the long tail

Semiramis

ruled the mighty Assyrian Empire???

Dido

Dante places Cleopatra and Dido in the second circle of Hell, on account of their lust.

Francesca

she was in love and died for love in lust

Cerberus