Inferno Study Guide

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circle 1

limbo

circle 2

lust

circle 3

gluttony

circle 4

greed

circle 5

wrath

circle 6

heresy

circle 7

violence

circle 8

fraud

circle 9

treachery

circle 1 punishment

eternal grief from a lack of God’s presence

circle 2 punishment

eternal whirlwind

circle 3 punishment

filthy rain, hail, and snow

circle 4 punishment

misers and prodigals push boulders in opposite directions

circle 5 punishment

fighting and submerged in the muddy Styx

circle 6 punishment

coffins with flames inside

circle 7 bulgias

against others, against self and property, against God/nature/industry/art/creation

violence against others punishment

drowning in the bloody Phlegethon River while shot at by centaurs

violence against self punishment

trees with limbs torn off by harpies

violence against God/nature/industry/art/creation punishment

desert with raining fire

circle 8 bulgias

panderers & seducers, flatterers, simonists, false prophets, barterers, hypocrites, thieves, counselors of fraud, sowers of discord, falsifiers

panderers and seducers punishment

whipped by devils while marching

flatterers punishment

immersed in a lake of shit

simonists punishment

stuck headfirst into a pit with feet protruding on fire

false prophets punishment

walking with heads on backwards

barterers punishment

immersed in a pit of boiling tar

hypocrites punishment

walk in cloaks lined with heavy lead

thieves punishment

naked and tied up by snakes, metamorphosize into different forms when bitten

counselors of fraud punishment

wrapped in tongues of fire

sowers of discord punishment

forced to walk around while wounds heal and are split open again by a devil

falsifiers of alchemy punishment

leprosy

falsifiers of identity punishment

tearing each other apart

falsifiers of money punishment

dehydration

falsifiers of words punishment

burning fever with literal smoke coming out of them

circle 9 bulgias

Caina, Antenora, Ptolomea, Judecca

circle 9 punishment

frozen in Lake Cocytus