Untitled Flashcards Set

Dante

Author and protagonist of the journey through hell, 35 years old, striving to reach Beatrice.

Virgil

Dante’s guide through hell, voice of reason

Beatrice

Symbol of divine love, sends Virgil to guide Dante.

3 Beasts

She-Wolf of incontinence, Lion of violence and ambition, Leopard of malice and fraud; push Dante into hell

Ciacco

Florentine Glutton, the hog, wants to be remembered, political commentary of white and black Florentine factions

Nessus

Chiron Centaur (half man, half horse) guides Dante and Virgil through bloody terrain of violence

Minos

judge of hell, wraps tail to symbolize the layer of hell sinner goes to; tail to fling sinner into hell

Cleopatra

Carnal/ lust; Egyptian Pharaoh known for her beauty and seduction of Caesar and Antony.

Helen and Paris

Carnal/ lust, Helen of Troy- most beautiful, Paris- chooses Helen in beauty contest, starts Trojan War

Cerberus

The three-headed dog that punishes gluttons by eating them.

Alexander the Great

Violence against neighbors, tyrant, most violent- worst punishment in River of Blood

Harpies

punishes suicide, rips branches off, women’s head/ bird’s body

Count Ugolino

Treacherous to Country, Imprisoned with sons and eats them; eater of Archbishop Ruggieri

Archbishop Ruggieri

Treacherous to Country, Imprisons Ugolino and sons and starves them

Satan

Emperor of Hell, Lucifer/ Dis, punishes treacherous to masters- Judas, Cassius, Brutus, 3 heads and wings

Judas

Treacherous to Masters, betrays Jesus to Sanhedrin for 30 pieces of silver, worst punishment- most pain, flayed back and head bitten by Satan

Cassius

Treacherous to Masters, conspirator/ stabs Caesar in back, held by feet

Brutus

Treacherous to Masters, conspirator/ stabs Caesar in back, held by feet

Marsh of Styx

The muddy terrain where the Wrathful and Sullen are punished.

River of Blood

boiling river of blood of Violence against Neighbors, Alexander the Great

Cerberus

A three-headed monster emblematic of gluttony.

Harpies (descriptive)

the head of a woman and the body of a bird.

Centaur (descriptive)

half horse and half man.

Carnal sin

Lust, uncontrolled/ violent windstorm, emotional pain- no peace/ restless

Gluttony

Overindulgence in worldly desires (eating), stuck in slush/ muddy landscape with icy weather, Cerberus eats them

Hoarders and Wasters

Greed, hoarders and wasters fight each other with rocks and weights

Wrathful

Anger, fighting each other on the Marsh of Styx

Sullen

Depressed, live in the Marsh of Styx, cannot see the light- refused light of God

Violence against Neighbors

 immersed in boiling River of Blood (depth based on sin), come out of river- shot with arrows by centaurs

Violence against Themselves

Suicide, turned into tress- branches ripped off by harpies, when ripped- can talk

Treacherous to Guest and Hosts

eternally frozen in ice of Cocytus from neck to toe, repeatedly tears shed freeze on face and painfully shatter

Treacherous to Country

eternally frozen neck to toe; count ugliogino, archbishop

Treacherous to Masters

eternal frozen in uncomfortable positions, ripped up by Satan, Judas, Cassius, Brutus