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Dante’s the Inferno Map

SINS and CIRCLES

Reading Assignment #1—Cantos I through XI

Meet Dante and Virgil in the Dark Wood

Enter the Vestibule—the uncommitted

Cross the River Acheron

Enter Circle I: Limbo—no sin, unpunished, virtuous pagans

Sins Against SELF begin here

Circle II: Lustful—carnal, sexual

Circle III: Gluttonous--food

Circle IV: Avaricious—hoarders and wasters

Circle V: Wrathful, Sullen, Slothful

THE WALLS OF DIS

Sins Against OTHERS begin here

Circle VI: Heretics—“false” doctrines

End of Reading Assignment #1

Reading Assignment #2—Cantos XII through XXVII Map

Circle VII: Violence (to violate) against others or self

THE ABYSS

Circle VIII: Malebolge—Hell’s “Large Intestine,” consisting of ten pockets (bolgia)

Bolgia (Pocket numbers) and sins punished

1. Panders, Seducers—pimps, porn

2. Flatterers—false praise to get something “sucking up”

3. Simoniacs—selling of pardons for $

4. Fortunetellers

5. Grafters (Barrators)—false lawsuits, selling positions in church, state

6. Hypocrites

7. Thieves

8. Evil Counselors—knowingly misleading another

End of Reading Assignment #2

Reading Assignment #3—Cantos XXVIII through XXXIV Map

9. Sowers of Discord--anarchists

10. Flasifiers—liars

THE GIANTS’ WELL

Circle IX: Cocytus

Traitors

1. To kindred

2. To country

3. To guests

4. To masters

SATAN (DIS)—at the heaviest point—the center of the Earth

End of the Inferno WHEW!!!!