![]() ![]() Sowers of discord amongst men (warmongers and such).Those who committed simonies (priests and Popes who offered salvation in exchange for money).Flatterers are steeped in excrement, as they are "ass-kissers" and "brown-nosers".People are thrown into the different holes according to their sins. They are forever in a desert filled with fiery sand while fire flakes rain from the sky. Inner Ring: Houses the blasphemers (they are considered violent against God), the sodomites (homosexuals), and the usurers (those that lend money, it was considered a mortal sin to do so in the middle ages).Those that took the means through which life was sustained (in modern terms, those that commit euthanasia) are forever chased by vicious dogs in this circle as well. Middle Ring: Houses the suicides, who live in eternal pain as thorny trees.Outer Ring: Houses those that were violent to others' property, they are dipped in a river of boiling blood, according to their sins, and have arrows fired at them from Centaurs if they attempt to leave.The Minotaur guards the entrance to the seventh Circle and this circle is reserved for the violent. Heretics are buried alive for eternity, while atheists must inhabit their own inert, rotting corpses, an ironic punishment for not believing in the afterlife. Heretics and atheists lie in tombs in this level. In order to go lower into hell Dante must enter the city Dis, which is guarded by fallen angels. In the surface of the waters the wrathful fight for all eternity while the lazy gurgle in the bottom, forever drowning. The wrathful and, inexplicably, the lazy inhabit this circle, which contains the famous river Styx. The avaricious are forced to push massive stones towards the center of the circle and the squanderers are force to hoard them up against the wall, in an antithetical or ironic punishment. ![]() The fourth circle of Hell is for the greedy and the squanderers of wealth. This is as punishment for the garbage they made on Earth when consuming all of their food. Here they are forced to lie in a slush made up of freezing rain, black snow, and hail. The third circle of Hell is for gluttons. Figures of men and women are swept away by the winds, being a symbol of unwound and needless passions. The second circle of Hell is for those who committed the sin of lust. Minos resides at the end of this circle, and as the first judge of Hell separates the levels in which the damned shall go to, by the amount of times he circles them with his tail. Without baptism they live in a deficient form of heaven, where there are some flowers and green fields, as well as a white castle. Notable faces include Socrates, Homer, and Saladin, amongst others. Basically all the pagans that did not know of God, live here. The First Circle of Hell is Limbo, where the willful sinners are. The Nine Levels of Hell First Circle (Limbo) He is saved however, by Vergilius, who proceeds to guide him through Hell. Dante Alighieri was going through a tough time at the point in time he wrote The Divine Comedy, having just been banned from Firenze, and as such this may have been a symbolic representation of his depression. The story starts out with a man named Dante lost in a dark wood. In the book, Dante traverses the nine levels of Hell (in Dante's universe, Hell is shaped like a cone that faces downwards), guided by his friend, Vergilius (Virgil). The poem is considered to be one of the greatest literary works in human history, and established the Tuscan dialect of Toscana as the Italian standard dialect. The subsequent chapters, Purgatorio and Paradiso, or Purgatory and Heaven, are not represented in the video game. The first chapter, in which Dante is led through the circles of Hell, is called Inferno, or Dante's Inferno. The poem is likewise divided into three chapters, each focused on a different realm. The Divine Comedy tells the tale of Dante as he is given a tour of the three realms of the afterlife Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. Wayne Barlowe, the game's artist, was chosen to work on the game based on his work Barlowe's Inferno, a collection of images inspired by the poem. It is very loosely based on Inferno, the first chapter of Dante Alighieri's epic poem La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. It was released on the Xbox 360 and PS3 on February 9, 2010. ![]() Dante's Inferno is a third-person action game from Electronic Arts and Visceral Games with gameplay reminiscent of the God of War series. ![]()
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