Jim’s Notes on our Journey

Vestibule—uncommitted race endlessly behind a blank banner

Acheron—the first river

Limbo—Circle 1—virtuous pagans

Carnal—physical (sexual immoderation)—Circle 2—Francesca and Paolo

Prodigal—wasters--Circle 4

Miserly—hoarders—Circle 4

Sullen—depressed without reason--Circle 5

3 types of violence—Circle 7

Suicides—violence against self

Blasphemers—violence against God--irreverence toward holy personages, religious artifacts, customs, and beliefs.

Sodomites—violence against self—unnatural sex as defined by the culture

Usurers –violence against others—extort excessive interest rates

GERYON—monster with the face of trust with stinger—flies them to circle 8--Malebolge

Malebolge

Circle/Pouch

8/1 Seducers—deliberately enticing a person to engage in sin (often sexual in nature) lead astray 8/1

8/1 Panderers—pimps 8/1

8/2 Flatterers—8/2

8/3 Simonists (Simoniacs)—sell church favor 8/3

8/4 Soothsayer—fortune teller or oracle 8/4—Teireseis

8/4 Sorcerers—magicians—manipulate physical world through supernatural means

8/5 Grafters—sell political favor 8/5

8/5Barrators--is the act or practice of bringing repeated legal actions solely to harass.

8/6 Hypocrites—say one thing—do another—represent themselves as what they are not—8/6. Immensely heavy yet beautiful cloak lined with lead that weighs them down—8/6

8/7 Thieves—8/7

8/8 Evil Counselors—Odysseus—cooks up the Trojan Horse scam 8/8

8/9 Sowers of Discord—schism--Mohammed—head in hand like a lantern—Betran de Born-8/9

8/10 Falsifiers—Sinon—Greek in Aeneid let himself be captured by Trojans and gave them the story about the Trojan Horse—Potiphar’s wife—she attempts to seduce but it’s her lie that gets her here. 8/10