2. Welcome, students. Be prepared to spend the week in HELL!

3. Watch video game clip “Inferno”

4. In your daybook, write a detailed, thoughtful response to the following prompts: What people, places, and things do you associate with the words good and virtuous? What people, places and things come to mind when you think about the words evil and immoral? What representations of good and evil have you seen in books, movies, and television? List at least three representations of good and three representations of evil. Then pick the best one from each category to discuss in class.

5. Dante Alighieri, claims that before achieving moral redemption, an individual must take a hard look at evil both in the world and in himself. Only by confronting inner evil can people can achieve self-knowledge, which is the first step toward redemption. Dante also says that people should not be expected to make their journey alone; they need a guide to help them. For Dante’s own journey, as described in his book, he chose the poet Virgil to guide him through hell. There’s that shadow archetype again...

6. Virgil (70 B.C-19 B.C), regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, the Aeneid (written about 29 B.C.E), which had taken its literary model from Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey. Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C.E., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. Augustus Caesar pressed Virgil to write of the glory of Rome under his sway. Thus the remaining time of his life, from 30 to 19 B.C., Virgil devoted to the composition of The Aeneid, the national epic of Rome, to glory the Empire. Although ambitious, Virgil was never really happy about the task; it was like performing a religious and political duty.

7. Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita A mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, B che la dirritta via era smarrita. A Ahi quanto a dir qual era e cosa dura B esta selva selvaggia e aspra e forte C che nel pensier rinova la paura! B Tant’ e amara che poco e piu morte; C ma per trattar del ben ch’I’ vi trovai, D diro de l’altre cose ch’I v v’ho scorte. C Io non so ben ridir com’ I’ v’intrai, D tant era pien di sonno a quell punto E che la verace via abbandonai. D (When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Ah, it is hard to speak of what it was, that savage forest, dense and difficult, which even in recall renews my fear: so bitter—death is hardly more severe! But to retell the good discovered there, I’ll also tell the other things I saw. I cannot clearly say how I had entered the wood; I was so full of sleep just at the point where I abandoned the truth path). Rhyme scheme: aba, bcb, cdc, ded To tell his story, Dante (Alighieri, 1265-1321) adapted the rhythmic rhyme scheme of Dante used the melodic vowel word-endings of many Italian words in the rhyme scheme "terza rime," in which first and the third lines of each triplet end in the same sound. Terza Rima [tert-suh ree-muh]

8. Canto principal divisions of a long poem. [Italian, from Latin cantus, song] It is divided into 3 sections: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Each one of these sections is divided into 33 cantos (except Inferno, which has 34 cantos), which are written in tercets (groups of 3 lines). The number 3 in Dante's time was significant because it was considered holy--since the Father (God), Son (Jesus), and Holy Ghost comprise the Trinity.

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10. My level of Hell... Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell. Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Who are sent there?Score PurgatoryRepenting BelieversVery Low Purgatory Level 1 – LimboVirtuous Non-BelieversHigh Level 1 – Limbo Level 2LustfulModerate Level 2 Level 3GluttonousHigh Level 3 Level 4Prodigal and AvariciousVery Low Level 4 Level 5Wrathful and GloomyHigh Level 5 Level 6 - The City of DisHereticsVery High Level 6 - The City of Dis Level 7ViolentModerate Level 7 Level 8- the MalebolgeFraudulent, Malicious, PanderersModerate Level 8- the Malebolge Level 9 – CocytusTreacherousLow Level 9 – Cocytus

11. Dante’s Inferno An exciting journey through all the circles of Hell

12. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here “Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.” - Isaiah 5:14

13. Three Types of Sin Three Types of Sin (Dante Alighieri) (Level 1) Incontinence (Level 1) Lack of self control (Level 2) Violence (Level 2) will Conscious violation of God’s will (Level 3) Fraudulent and Traitorous (Level 3) Using reason and intellect as a weapon

15. VESTIBULE: Neutrals and Opportunists, indecisive, no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides VESTIBULE: Neutrals and Opportunists, indecisive, no real beliefs, those who don’t choose sides CIRCLE #1—LIMBO: Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Babies CIRCLE #1—LIMBO: Virtuous Pagans and Unbaptized Babies CIRCLE #2: Carnal and Lustful CIRCLE #2: Carnal and Lustful CIRCLE #3: Gluttons CIRCLE #3: Gluttons CIRCLE #4: Hoarders and Wasters CIRCLE #5: Wrathful and Sullen or Slothful CIRCLE #4: Hoarders and Wasters CIRCLE #5: Wrathful and Sullen or Slothful

16. The First Circle Limbo Virtuous pagans & unbaptized infants Virtuous pagans & unbaptized infants Homer, Socrates and Plato Homer, Socrates and Plato “Only so far afflicted that without hope” they “live in desire” (4.42) “Only so far afflicted that without hope” they “live in desire” (4.42)

17. The Second Circle The Lustful The Lustful Minos sits in judgment Minos sits in judgment Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion Blown about forever by stormy winds just as, in life, they were blown about by the winds of passion

19. Paolo and Francesca lust and the false God of Love Circle Two

20. The Third Circle The Gluttons

21. Guarded by Cerberus Wallow in mud and muck Besieged by hail & filthy water The Third Circle

22. The avaricious and the prodigal Avaricious (greedy) Prodigal (wasteful) Useless Labor The Fourth Circle

23. The Fifth Circle The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful The Wrathful, Sullen, or Slothful Attacking one another Attacking one another

24. City of Dis Boundary between upper and lower Hell.

25. CIRCLE #6: Heretics CIRCLE #6: Heretics CIRCLE #7.1: Violence Against Neighbors CIRCLE #7.2: Violence Against Oneself (Forest of the Suicides) CIRCLE #7.1: Violence Against Neighbors CIRCLE #7.2: Violence Against Oneself (Forest of the Suicides) CIRCLE #7.3.1: Violence Against God CIRCLE #7.3.2: Violence Against Nature (Homosexuals) CIRCLE #7.3.1: Violence Against God CIRCLE #7.3.2: Violence Against Nature (Homosexuals) CIRCLE #7.3.3: Violence Against Art CIRCLE #7.3.3: Violence Against Art MALABOLGIA MALABOLGIA

26. Descent into lower Hell: Circle 6: Heresy atheists & Non- believers in the afterlife

27. Circle Violence against God, his creations, and self Circle 7: Violence against God, his creations, and self

28. Piero delle vigne Violence Against Self

29. Forest of the suicides

30. TheSodomites violence against nature male homosexuality

31. Ugolino and Ruggieri Violence

32. Mmmm … (smack) (slurp) Deee-licious!

34. The Malbolge “Bad Pockets” Entry to lowest levels of Hell – for those who use their God- given intellect to distort the truth: Fraud Fraud Treachery Treachery

35. Circle 8: Fraud CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers CIRCLE #8.3: Simonists (Users of the Church) CIRCLE #8.3: Simonists (Users of the Church) CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers

36. CIRCLE #8.1: Pimps, Panderers, and Seducers pan·der·er n. 1. A sexual procurer. 2. One who caters to or exploits the lower tastes and desires of others.

37. CIRCLE #8.2: Flatterers

38. The Simonists CIRCLE #8.3:

39. CIRCLE #8.4: Fortunetellers and Soothsayers

40. CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters CIRCLE #8.5: Grafters “the acquisition of gain (as money) in dishonest or questionable ways; also: illegal or unfair gain”

41. CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites CIRCLE #8.6: Hypocrites

42. CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves CIRCLE #8.7: Thieves

43. CIRCLE #8.8: Evil Counselors and Deceivers

44. CIRCLE #8.9: Sowers of Discord/Scandal/Schism

45. Ulysses CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers CIRCLE #8.10: Falsifiers

48. traitors CassiusBrutus Judas

49. CIRCLE #9.1 - CAINA: Treachery to Kindred CIRCLE #9.1 - CAINA: Treachery to Kindred CIRCLE #9.2 - ANTENORA: Treachery to Country or Political Party CIRCLE #9.2 - ANTENORA: Treachery to Country or Political Party CIRCLE #9.3 - TOLOMEA: Treachery to Guests CIRCLE #9.3 - TOLOMEA: Treachery to Guests CIRCLE #9.4 - JUDECCA: Treachery to Lords or Superiors CIRCLE #9.4 - JUDECCA: Treachery to Lords or Superiors LOWEST LEVEL OF HELL: The worst of those who betrayed their benefactors LOWEST LEVEL OF HELL: The worst of those who betrayed their benefactors ~Satan, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius (Macbeth?)

50. Stephen in a Hell of his own making

51. Where do you fit in? http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante- inferno-test.mv http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante- inferno-test.mv Take the test and find out… if you DARE