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Sinners

  • Dante- Author/ protagonist, 35 years old strays from True, journeys through hell, trying to reach Beatrice

  • Virgil- Dante’s guide through hell, voice of reason 

  • Beatrice- divine love, sends Virgil to 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,” 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, uses tail to fling sinner into hell 

  • Cleopatra- Carnal/ lust, Egyptian Pharaoh who seduces Caesar and Antony with beauty 

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

  • Cerberus- 3 headed dog who eats the gluttons 

  • 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 

  • 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 



Places

  • Marsh of Styx- muddy terrain where Wrathful and Sullen are punished, 

  • River of Blood- boiling river of blood of Violence against Neighbors, Alexander the Great



Descriptive Quotes

  • Cerberus- 3 headed monster

  • Harpies- Head of women/ body of bird

  • Centaur- Half horse, half man 



Sins and Punishments

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

  • Gluttons- 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

  • Treacherous to Masters- eternal frozen in uncomfortable positions, ripped up by Satan