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Who are the 'small-souled' (when they first enter Hell) and why are they there? |
-Not much is said about them -They are there because neither Heaven nor Hell will accept them. They were neither rebels on earth nor were they faithful to God on earth. |
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What is Limbo? What circle of Hell are they in? Who dwells in Limbo? |
-a place between Damnation and Salvation -1st circle -those who weren't baptized (infants) and those who didn't give God enough merit before Jesus's time.
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How are the lustful punished? What circle of Hell are they in? Who did they meet here?
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-punished in an endless cyclone -2nd circle -Francesca and Paolo |
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How are the gluttonous punished? What circle of Hell are they in? Who do they speak to here? |
-punished by endless rancid rain, hail, and snow -3rd circle -Ciacco |
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How are the avaricious punished? What circle? What does avaricious mean? Who is also punished with them? |
-two groups (split up as greedy and wasteful) rolled large heavy stones together in a circle and joust and slander each other from time to time -4th -greedy -the wasteful
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How are the wrathful punished? How are the sullen punished? What circle? Where specifically in the circle? |
-wrathful are naked swimming in the river Styx, ripping each other limb from limb -sullen are at the bottom of Styx, singing a Hymn that only results in the bubbling of the river -5th -the river Styx |
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How are the heretics punished? Who specifically did the heretics believe? What circle? |
-they lay in open tombs that are being torched by flames -Epicurus -6th |
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How are murderers punished? What circle? |
-stand in boiling blood, with deepness depending on their crime, being shot at with arrows by centaurs -7th, 1st subring
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How are suicides punished? How are the spoilers punished? What are spoilers? What circle? |
-the suicides are dead, fragile trees who are chewed at by Harpies -the spoilers run naked through the forest being chased and torn to bits by dogs -possibly robbers -7th, 2nd subring |
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What are the punishments of seducers and panderers? What are panderers? What circle? |
-whipped by demons -pimps -8th, 1st ditch |
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What is the punishment of flatterers? What circle? |
-slap themselves while plunged in poop -8th, 2nd ditch |
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How are simonists punished? What is a simonist? What circle? |
-plunged in the ground head-first with their feet sticking out of the ground being torched by flame -one who uses the church to make money -8th, 3rd ditch |
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How are diviners punished? What is a diviner? What circle? |
-walk around with their heads on backwards, crying into their buttcrack -soothsayers, magicians, astrologists -8th, 4th ditch |
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How are the betrayers of nation or party punished? What circle?
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-Archbishop Ruggieri gets his brain gnawed on by Ugolino -9th, 2nd zone |
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How are the betrayers of guests punished? What's special about this zone? What circle? |
-Lie flat on the ice, when they cry their tears turn into ice on their faces -9th, 3rd zone
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How are the betrayers of benefactors punished? What circle? |
-frozen in ice -Judas, Brutus, and Cassius are being eating by each of Satan's three heads -They're in Dis |