Dante's Inferno Characters
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Leopard | This animal symbolizes lust or the sins of incontinence or loss of control |
| Lion | This animal symbolizes the sins of violence |
| Wolf | This animal symbolizes sins of fraud (using reason to sin) - he will never stop being hungry |
| Dante | The character who is halfway through life (35 years old) when he realizes he's been living a life of sin. |
| Virgil | A guide, role model, and parent-like figure to Dante both as a poet and as a pilgrim |
| Mary | Mother of God whose name Dante will never use |
| Lucy | Patron Saint of those with weak sight; light bringer |
| Beatrice | Dante's idea of perfection in an woman and as a Christian. The person who symbolizes virtue and who asks Virgil to help Dante |
| Pope Celestine V | The Pope who abdicated his papal position and is in the vestibule because of it |
| Charon | They ferryman of the underworld, a creepy old dude, ferries people across Acheron |
| Homer | Great Greek Poet who wrote the Odyssey |
| Aristotle | "The master of men who know" |
| Minos | Sentences the sinners to where they've gotta go in hell by wrapping his tail around himself X number of times |
| Semiramis | Queen of Babel who legalized incest so she could sleep with her cousin |
| Dido | Queen of Carthage. After her first hubby died she said "I'll never love again" but then along comes Aeneas and she marries him, but then when he leaves, she builds a fire out of all his stuff and burns herself |
| Cleopatra | had many lovers and got a snake to bite her |
| Tristram | Falls for his uncle's wife Isolde and his Uncle catches them together and kills him but he is holding so tight to Isolde that he smothers her on accident |
| Isolde | Fall's for her husband's nephew and gets smothered after her husband kills her lover because he's holding her so tight |
| Francesca | Fell for her fiance's younger brother, Paulo. But her fiance catches them and kills them both. |
| Giovanni | Francesca's fiance who kills both her and Paulo. |
| Paulo | Giovanni's younger brother who he kills when he finds him with Francesca |
| Lancelot and Guinevere | The lustful couple from the story of King Arthur who Francesca and Paulo read about |
| Helen | ran off to Troy with Paris while her husband Melanus was away |
| Achilles | Was lured in by Paris using Polyxena, and then dies |
| Cerberus | The guard for the ring of the gluttonous who flays them with his teeth and junk |
| Ciacco | A well known glutton in Florence |
| Pluto | God of wealth, symbol of riches |
| Michael | Chased lucifer outta heaven with a flaming sword |
| Phlegyas | The son of Mars and a mortal woman named Chryse. This guy burned down Apollo's temples because Apollo raped his daughter. He is now the ferryman for the river/marsh styx |
| Filippo Argenti | Dante's Political enemy who he wants to push farther into the mud. |
| Rebel Angels | They bar the way to into Dis for Virgil and Dante |
| Furies | Like women, but have snake hair. There are three of them |
| Alecto Megaera Tisiphone | The furies in alphabetical order (I'm not sure if we're gonna need to know their names or not, but just to be safe) (Also, no commas) |
| Epicure | The philosopher who believed that you should indulge in all of your bodily pleasures to bring you happiness, thought that your soul dies with your body which is an anti-christian belief |
| Cavalcanti | A Guelf knight noted for his Epicureanism. His son was a fellow-poet of Dante's. |
| Guido | Calvalcanti's son, a fellow poet of Dante |
| Ubaldino | A Cardinal said "if I have a soul" - doubting the fact that he had a soul and also he was very interested in money |
| Frederick II | Holy Roman Emperor who followed the school of Epicure. (Not quite sure if we need to know it, but again, just being safe. If you get it wrong, just say override) |
| Pope Anastasius | Was really an Emperor. Dante got confused |
| Photinus | A deacon of Thesolonica that followed heresy and convinced Anastasius that Jesus was not immaculately concieved |
| Sodom | a lustful city who were tested by a group of angels in disguise. The city was destroyed except for one man and his family |
| Lot | He offers the disguised angels shelter from his crazy city and he and his family are spared, but his wife looks back as they are escaping and is turned into a pillar of salt |
| Cahors | City in France known for money lending especially at exorbitant interest rates |
| The Minotaur | The creature Virgil enrages to distract it |
| Ariadne | gave theseus a ball of yarn in the maze |
| Centaurs | Guard Phlegethon and the woods of suicides |
| Nessus | Kills Heracles by giving Heracles' wife some of his own centaur blood that's poisonous |
| Chiron | Achilles' tutor (a centaur) |
| Pholus | violent centaur (Again, not sure if we need to know this) |
| Guy de Montfort | avenges his father's death by killing Prince Henry in a Cathedral and puts his heart in a box |
| Pyrrhus | Son of Achilles, slew Priam at the altar |
| Pazzian and Cornetan Riniers | Famously violent highwaymen |
| Harpies | Gross birds with lady-faces who chased the trojans, bothered Jason, and now nibble and claw away at the trees |
| Pier delle Vigne | falsely accused of treachery against his minister, Frederick (whom he was very loyal to) so he commits suicide by beating his head against the wall of his prison |
| Cato | Roman army general who led his army through the Lybian desert |
| Capaneus | One of the 7 against Thebes, and dared Zeus to defend Thebes, and so he got struck by lightning. Denys the power of God |
| Ser Brunetto | Notary, a prominent Guelf who wrote about morality and ethics, was Dante's role model (sodomite) |
| Andrea dei Mozzi | Bishop of Florence who wasn't serious enough about his job. (sodomite) (Not sure if we need to know him or not. Just in case) |
| Geryon | Offered hospitality to travelers but then killed em. It's part human, part reptile, and part beast. |
| Phaeton | The son of Phoebus, was allowed to hold the reigns of the sun for one day, but blew it and the sun left a huge smear across the sky that we call the milky way now |
| Icarus | His dad built him wings to escape from their prison on Crete but despite his father's warnings, he flew to close to the sun and the wax on his wings melted off |
| Venedico Caccianemico | He sold his sister, Ghisola, to the Marchese for marriage so that he could get money. |
| Jason | lies to Hypsipyle to seduce her and leaves her while she's pregnant and also has two kids with Medea but then leaves her |
| Hypsipyle | Lived on the island of Lemnos, and all the women on the island banded together and decided to kill all the men. But her dad survives cause he was disguised. Jason visits the island, lies to her, gets her pregnant, then leaves the island |
| Thais | A fancy prostitute who would tell her clients that their sex was "a miracle" |
| Simon Magus | Tried to buy spiritual power from Peter |
| Pope Nicholas III | gave family positions to the church |
| Pope Boniface VIII | Nicholas thinks that Dante is ____ _________ ____ |
| Clement V | the pope who will rise to the Papacy but control it from Avignon, France. |
| The Whore of Babylon | a seven-headed beast thingy that Nicholas uses to describe how the church has become whore-ish |
| Constantine | legalized christianity and so it gains power and money and Nicholas is sad because if he hadn't none of this corruption would have happened |
| Amphiaraüs | one of the seven against Thebes forsaw his death and tried to escape but got swallowed up by an earthquake |
| Tiresias | Blind seer-Theban prophet. Found two snakes intertwined and hit 'em with a stick and then was a woman for seven years and then hit 'em again and got changed back |
| Manto | did witchcraft on a swampy tract of land and then died. Mantua was named after her |
| Eurypylus | Greek seer who accompanied Agamemnon to troy |
| Ciampolo | the barrator who Dante and Virgil witness being hooked out of the pitch. He tricks the demons |
| Fra Gomita | a jail keeper that sold prisoners their freedom; he could be bribed |
| King Frederick II | king who used to punish his traitors by wrapping them in lead and throwing them into water |
| Caiaphas | A high priest who told the Pharisees that Jesus had to die for the good of the people |
| Vanni Fucci | Militant leader of the Black Guelf party, stole items from a sacristy and other people got blamed for it. Gives Dante "the figs" |
| Eteocles and Polyneices | The cleft flame that approaches Dante reminds him of what the funeral pyre for ________ ___ __________ would look like |
| Ulysses | Joined with Diomede in the cleft flame. Known for cunning, deception, and trickery e.g. trojan horse |
| Diomede | takes Odysseus' son and puts him in front of the plough |
| Phalaris | king of Sicily that asked the Sicilian bull to be constructed |
| Perillus | The constructor of the Sicilian bull who ironically was its first victim |
| Guido da Montefeltro | Always was a foxy little fellow but wanted to turn over a new leaf so he joined the priesthood. However... he was forced to counsel Pope Boniface VIII to help him get power over a city and scheme against families. Wasn't absolved because he tried to absolve his sin before he committed it |
| Pope Boniface VIII | "Asks" Guido da Montefeltro to advise him on how to break up a powerful family and "absolves" him in advance (which isn't really possible:P) |
| Mahomet | Founder of Islam; viewed as a Christian schismatic by Dante |
| Fra Dolcino | Head of Ugoslavic brethren accused of being schismatic. Mahomet tells Dante to warn him that he should pack enough food so he doesn't starve |
| Pier da Medicina | Created feud between houses and wants Dante to warn his friends that they'll be drowned. (Not sure if we need to know him, but just in case) |
| Curio | has no tongue because he gave advice that cost so many lives and such. Told Caesar to cross the Rubicorn and declare war on the Republic of Rome |
| Mosca | said "What's done is ended" meaning that they shouldn't try and get revenge because it will just start a huge conflict. (Not sure if we need to know him, but just in case) |
| Bertrand de Born | Warped the mind of Henry II's son, and caused them to get into a dispute. Severing a child from their father is like separating the head and the body - that's what he did, and that's what he got |
| Absalom | rebelled against his dad, David |
| Geri de Bello | Dante's 2nd cousin who was in the ditch with the sowers of Discord |
| Griffolino d' Arezzo | A physicist who promised people miracles for their money |
| Albero | A foolish young man who falls for Griffolino's silliness and turns out to be the Bishop's son, so Griffolino gets burnt for being a sorcerer |
| Capocchio | A friend and fellow student of Dante who is said to be called an "ape of nature" because he could imitate so well |
| Juno | ____ made Athamas mad (in the crazy sense, not the angry sense) because his sister in law slept with Jupiter |
| Athamas | Crazy guy who killed one of his kids cause he thought it was a lion but then his wife in her rage, killed herself and the remaining child |
| Semele | Slept with Jupiter, Athamas' sister in law (not really sure if we need to know her, but just in case) |
| Hecuba | Went crazy because her children died in the trojan war |
| Gianni Schicchi | Impersonated recently dead people so that he could re-do their wills in his or other people's favor |
| Myrrah | Wanted to sleep with her father so disguised herself and when he found out she fled to Arabia where she was turned into a myrtle tree |
| Adonis | ______ comes from the Myrtle tree that Myrrah turned into |
| Master Adam | Counterfeited so much money that it caused inflation in his city |
| Sinon of Troy | Greek spy who convinced the Trojans to bring in the horse. |
| Charlemayn | Roland's uncle |
| Roland | Charlemayn's nephew, when ambushed by step-father, blew his horn so loud that he burst the blood vessels in his head. He died |
| Ganelon | Meets with the muslim troops and arranges ambush on his own the rear guard of his own people |
| Nimrod | built the tower of Babel that caused everyone to start speaking different languages, so now he can only speak gobbledegook (oh and he's a giant now) |
| Ephialtes | One of the giants who tried to overthrow the olympian gods and is now chained up tight. |
| Briareus | One of the giants who tried to overthrow the olympian gods, some myths depict him with 50 heads and 100 arms (Not sure if we have to know him, but just in case) |
| Antaeus | The big friendly giant who does not wear a chain cause he didn't try and overthrow the gods |
| Mordred | King Arthur's son who he unknowingly had with his half-sister. He starts a rebellion against Arthur and so Arthur killed him |
| Cain | Caïna was named after ____ |
| Bocca | Obstinant guy who would not tell Dante his name so Dante starts ripping his hair out |
| Tydeus | One of the seven against thebes who got mortally wounded by Menalippus but managed to kill him, and while this guy was dying, he munchest on Menalippus' head |
| Menalippus | Mortally wounded Tydeus, but then got killed by him and had his brains muchest on |
| Count Ugolino | Sold three of his country's castles to the Archbishop, who in turn imprisoned him in what became known as "The Tower of Famine" with four of his sons and grandsons. They starve, then once they are dead, he eats them, then he starves. |
| Archbishop Roger | Bought three castles from Count Ugolino and then imprisoned him and his four sons in a tower and threw they key in the river and then opened the tower to find Ugolino and his sons dead from starvation |
| Atropos | the Fate who cuts the thread of life (not sure if we need to know her, but just in case) |
| Friar Alberigo | Sinner who threw a banquet, but poisoned all of his guests (Not quite sure if we need to know him, but just in case) |
| Branca d' Oria | Killed his father in law Michael Zanche at a banquet he had invited him to. His soul fell to Cocytus before Michael's reached the pitch |
| Lucifer | His name means light-bringer |
| Dis | Literally means Chaos, name Virgil gives to Satan |
| Judas | Betrayed Jesus to Caiaphas |
| Brutus | Betrayed Caesar (hint. "et tu...") |
| Cassius | The other guy that betrayed Caesar |
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