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Circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno
1st Circle: Limbo
The unbaptized and virtuous pagans including Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid, Socrates, Plato, and Saladin.
2nd Circle: Lust
Lustful souls are blown about in a violent storm, without hope of rest. Francesca da Rimini and her lover Paolo are here.
3rd Circle: Gluttony
The gluttons are forced to lie in vile, freezing slush, guarded by Ceberus. Ciacco of Florence is here.
4th Circle: Avarice & Prodigality
The miserly and spendthrift push great heavy weights together, crashing them time and time again. Plutus guards them.
5th Circle: Wrath & Sullenness
The wrathful fight each other on the surface of the Styx while the sullen gurgle beneath it. Fillippo Argenti is here.
6th Circle: Heresy
Heretics are trapped in flaming tombs. Florentines Farinata degli Uberti and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti are here.
7th Circle: Violence
The violent against people and property, the suicides, the blashphemers, the sodomites and the usurers.
8th Circle: Fraud
Panderers and seducers, flatterers, sorcerers and false prophets, liars, thieves, and Ulysses and Diomedes.
9th Circle: Treachery
Betrayers of special relationships are frozen in a lake of ice. Satan, Judas, Brutus, and Cassius are here.
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