FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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His horns
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His feet
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His tail
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His fists
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Detailed explanation-1: -Upon learning their sins, Minos indicates to them their destination in hell by wrapping his serpent tail around his body as many times as the appropriate circle.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dante witnesses Minos, a great beast, examining each soul as it stands for judgment. Minos hears the souls confess their sins, and then wraps his tail around himself to determine the number of the circle where the sinner belongs. Minos tells Dante to beware of where he goes and to whom he turns.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the original Inferno, Minos’s Tail was used to determine where a soul condemned to Hell would be sent. The number of times Minos wrapped his tail around his midsection was the number of the Circle that soul was damned to.
Detailed explanation-4: -He has a long tail, and after he hears a sinner confess his or her sins he wraps his tail around himself to indicate in which Circle of Hell the sinner will be punished. If Minos wraps his tail around himself three times, the sinner will eternally be punished in Circle 3.
Detailed explanation-5: -He sits at the entrance to the second circle in the Inferno, which is the beginning of Hell proper. There, he judges the sins of each soul and assigns it to its appropriate punishment by indicating the circle to which it must descend. He does this by circling his tail around his body the appropriate number of times.