FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Beneath Cairo
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Beneath Jerusalem
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Beneath Rome
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Beneath Florence
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Dante, Hell was a real place, located inside the earth beneath Jerusalem. It was cone-shaped, made up of a vestibule housing the cowardly and nine layered concentric circles representing nine levels of sin, whose circumference and depth could be measured.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante imagined Hell like an inverted cone, with its circles gradually becoming smaller nearer to Earth’s core. Each circle was dedicated to a sin and the sin’s related punishment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Dante describes Hell as a funnel or inverted cone descending in nine diminishing rings until the center of the earth (also the center of the universe in the geocentric understanding of his day) is reached.
Detailed explanation-4: -First Circle: Limbo. Second Circle: Lust. Third Circle: Gluttony. Fourth Circle: Greed. Fifth Circle: Anger. Sixth Circle: Heresy. Seventh Circle: Violence. Eighth Circle: Fraud. More items