the First Level of Hell – Limbo!
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief’s abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Low |
| Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | High |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | Moderate |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Low |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Moderate |
| Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
| Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Test
Well, you all knew I was a Goody Two-Shoes, didn’t you?
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I made it to the 6th level. (Not hard, for an atheist.)
Me, too. Dis, baby! Hanging with Alekto, Tisiphone and Megaira! Reading by the light of the burning tombs! Bullshitting with Sam Clemens!
Of course, they did miss a level.
http://www.theonion.com/onion3408/tenthcircle.html
WooHoo!
Going to Dis City
Where are the girls are pretty…
Aw, man. I’m gonna have to hang out with boring old Plato and Virgil and all those, while my buds are partying it up in Dis. It just isn’t fair.
Maybe It’s Just Because I’m In A Bad Mood Today…
Seventh Level of Hell ——————————————————————————– Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled
I ended up in Purgatory and Limbo (at least acording to the test), which seems like a mystical confluence if I ever heard one.
Purgatory with a tip of the hat at gluttony
I think you’re an Enabler, dear.
Hmmmm, I made it to the 7th level of hell.
I guess its up to me to corrupt everyone.
Explain to me again why you guys hang out with me.
Wow Lori…
Violent, Warmongering and a Tyrant…angry much.
Pretty hard to beat.
Come up to Dis City…It’s going to be much more fun and Party-y!
Just out of curiosity, why can’t atheists rank as Virtuous Non-Believers? Or was Dante just indulging in wishful thinking when he put Plato, Socrates, et al. in Limbo instead of Dis? Hey, where did he put the Jews? Been a long, long time since I read the Inferno.
Hmmm. I read it a couple of times, long, long ago (Ciardi translation). Read Niven and Pournelle’s version a lot more.
At a guess, the “Non-Believing” part is ignorant paganism, and really that area is only open to virtuous folks pre-Christ who never had the opportunity to hear the Gospel; in theory, it would include virtuous folks post-Christ in the same boat, but Dante was a bit Eurocentric in his Inferno.
I honestly don’t recall about the Jews.
Lust.
Heh.
Randy, doing a bit of googling, there seem to have not been much mention of Jews in the Divine Comedy as a whole. There are some particular ones mentioned — Caiaphas and Annas, both in the hypocrites’ bolgia in the 8th Circle, though not mentioned by name — but as a group, they seem to be absent. There was not much, if any, of a Jewish community in Florence at the time, and since Dante used the Comedy as a way to discuss his particular views of Florentine and Italian politics at the time, they simply don’t play much of a role.
Dis City here I come, right back where I started from!
Yes, while I am going to many different religions Hells, two tests in a row seem to indicate that Dis City and its living flames is where I will up in the Christian Mythology. The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished…