Ring 1
What are the sins committed in Ring 1 of Circle 7?
Murder & Tyranny (People who are violent against others)
What are the sins committed in Ring 2 of Circle 7?
Suicides & Squanderers
What are the sins committed in Ring 3 of Circle 7?
Harm against God, nature, & art. (blasphemy, sodomy, usury)
Who or what is the guardian of all of circle 7?
Minotaur
What is the punishment in this ring?
Boiled in a river of blood
What is the punishment for suicides in this ring?
Turned into trees & pecked at
What is the punishment's environment in this ring?
A plain of burning sand in which it rains fire forever
Who is the man known as Dante's old school teacher and found in Ring 3?
Brunetto Latini
What mythical creatures stand on the riverbank and shoot arrows at souls?
Centaurs
What mythical creature wounds the tree souls?
Harpies
What mythical creature has a scorpion tail and is known as a symbol of fraud?
Geryon
What is the name of the man who mocked the gods during the war on Thebes and insists that the tortures of Hell shall never break his defiance (cursing God)?
Capaneus
What is the name of the head Centaur?
Chiron
Who casts the souls here and known as the "judge of the damned"?
Minos
What is the name of the statue that is the source of Hell's waters?
Old Man of Crete
Who are 2 tyrants condemned to the first Ring in circle 7?
Alexander the Great, Dionysius, & Attila the Hun
What is the River in this ring called?
Phlegethon River
What is the punishment for Squanderers in this ring?
mauled by dogs
Those who committed usury are forever crouched in the sand looking at what?
the family crest ("purse") around their necks
What is the name of the advisor to Emperor Frederick who was falsely accused of treason, imprisoned, and took his own life?
Pier della Vigna