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The Evil Counselors Overview
Ulysses & Diomede
Guido's Story
Sowers of Discord Overview
Sinners in Bolgia Nine
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What circle do the evil counselors lay in?
Circle Eight
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How are Ulysses & Diomede punished and why?
They are united in one flame as they were united in wrath.
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Who persuaded Count Guido Da Montefeltro to sin?
Boniface VIII.
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What are the three classes inside the Sowers of Discord?
Sowers of religious discord, sowers of political discord, and sower of discord between kinsmen.
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What was Mosca’s sin? What was the result?
Mosca’s sin was that he contributed to the strife between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines. As a result, his hands are chopped off.
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Why does Virgil not let Dante speak first to Ulysses and Diomede?
Virgil believes Dante's manner of speaking will offend the Greeks.
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Which sin is Ulysses and Diomede known for?
Responsible for the Trojan Horse.
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Which two cities are led by the white den's lion?
Lamone and Santerno.
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who is Guido da Montefeltro and what does he ask Dante?
he was originally a member of the Ghibellines, he asks for news of his homeland.
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Who challenges Dante to find anyone in hell who suffers greater pain than he does?
Bertrand De Born
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what are the sins of the evil counselors?
These sinners are forever hidden in tongues of flame
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Who was Ulysses wife?
Penelope.
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What was Guido after being a soldier?
A friar (Franciscans).
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Definition of Sowers of Discord...
one who is driven to act on other's vulnerabilities and is driven solely on their own self-interests.
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Who are in the the sowers of political discord?
Among them are Pier Da Medicina, The Tribune Curio, and Mosca Dei Lamberti
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How did Ulysses and Diomede die?
They sailed beyond the western edge of the Mediterranean, legend asserted that death awaited any mariner venturing beyond that point. After five months, he and his crew came in view of a great mountain. Before they could reach it, however, a great storm arose and sank their ship.
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At that time what were the boundaries of the known world?
Hercules' pillars.
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How did Pope Boniface VIII persuade Guido to sin?
Guido was led to believe that Boniface would send him to heaven if he consented the Pope to wage war on a innocent family.
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These sinners are hacked and torn to pieces by a demon with a bloody sword, heal, and are then hacked and torn forever more.
Who are the Sowers of Discord?
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What was Bertrand De Born's sin?
Bertrand De Born is a sower of discord between kinsmen, who turned Prince Henry against his father, King Henry II
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So why are there rising tongues of flame?
Because each individual flame contains a sinner that moves when he moves.
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What is the second sin Ulysses and Diomede are known for?
When they stole a sacred statue of Pallas from the Palladium (Athena's temple).
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Pope Boniface VIII was not known for curing the sick but mostly for...?
Feuding with Christian families, especially the ones who supported the previous Pope.
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What is the punishment?
They are stabbed as they come near the devil, which splits them in half. Each member is mutilated based on the intensity of their sin.
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What is Ali known for ?
The man is responsible for causing a split in the church.