Extended image description for Figure 1
Extended image description for Figure 1
At the top is the gate of hell, followed by a vestibule labeled “the lukewarm.” The next major five segment are circles collectively labeled as “incontinence.” The first circle is “limbo,” followed by the second, “lust”; the third, “gluttony”; the fourth, “avarice & prodigality”; and the fifth, “anger.” After the fifth circle comes the walls of the city of dis, separating the upper and lower levels of hell. The sixth circle is labeled “heretics.” To the right of the circles, four rivers are labeled: the river Acheron near limbo, the river Styx near anger, and the river phlegethon near the violent circles below. After the sixth circle, the structure transitions to “violence,” divided into three circles: against others, against self, and against god, nature & art. Beneath this is the eighth circle, marked “fraud,” which is divided into ten bolgias or sub circles: 1. pimps & seducers, 2. flatterers, 3. simonists, 4. soothsayers, (6)5. barrators, 6. hypocrites, 7. thieves, 8. counselors of fraud, 9. sowers of discord, and 10. counterfeiters. Below these is the “well of the giants,” which leads into the ninth circle, marked “treachery.” The ninth circle is divided into four regions, each representing a type of betrayal: against relatives, against country, against guests, and against benefactors. This circle is submerged in Cocytus—the lake of ice. At the very bottom, encased in ice, is lucifer.