Dante's Inferno Vocabulary
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Vestibule | entrance area |
| Indecisive | dwell in area inside Vestibule; those marked by indecision |
| Acheron | first river in the underworld |
| Limbo | first circle of hell; those who live model lives but were not baptized (Virtuous Unbaptised) |
| Lustful | second circle of hell; those who commit sins of sexual desire |
| Gluttonous | third circle of hell; those who abuse their bodies with what they put inside of themselves |
| Prodigal, Avaricious | fourth circle of hell; people who are wasteful and greedy |
| Wrathful | fifth circle of hell; those who commit sins of anger |
| Styx | second river in the underworld |
| Wall of Dis | divides upper and lower hell; between circles 5 and 6 |
| Heretics | sixth circle of hell; those who reject one or more truths of the Catholic faith |
| Violence | seventh circle of hell; committed against Neighbors, Selves, and God |
| Abyss | a deep or bottomless pit; divides circle 7 and 8 |
| Fraud | eighth circle of hell; consists of seducers, flatterers; simoniacs (those who sell church relics and indulgences), fortunetellers, grafters (those who take money in exchange for favors), hypocrites, thieves, evil counselors, sowers of discord (those who break off from the Catholic Church and form their own religious sect), and falsifiers (liers and forgers) |
| Giant's Well | a well; divides circle 8 and 9 |
| Traitors | ninth circle of hell; those who turn their back on kin (Caina), Country (Antenora), Guests (Tolomea), Benefactors (Giudecca) |
| Satan | Lucifer; dwells on Circle 9, Bolgia 4 |
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