shewolf | | sinners who lived virtuously, but without knowledge of Christianity are sent |
heretic | | the number of beasts who chase Dante into the woods |
simoniacs | | the boatman of the river Styx |
Phlegyas | | someone who denies immortality (according to Dante) |
Suicide | | represents the sins of incontinence |
grafters | | the boatman of the river Acheron |
Charon | | represents the sins of the violent and bestial |
demons | | the Pope buried with the heretics |
three | | sold false religious relics; misused Christianity for profit |
fortunetellers | | the Furies call her for help |
nessus | | half-man, half-horse guards |
minotaur | | Virgil and Dante ride on this flying beast |
Beatrice | | a guard who is half-man, half-bull |
leopard | | the capitol of Hell |
Anastasius | | the three-headed guard dog |
Centaurs | | creatures who are used to torture those in the boiling pitch |
Limbo | | represents the sins of the fraudulent and malicious |
Cerberus | | these sinners are punished by being made a tree |
Dis | | carries poets across the river of blood |
lion | | the chief of the centaurs |
medusa | | punished by being forced to walk backwards |
Geryon | | these sinners were angry and battled during life |
wrathful | | Dante's muse; she petitions Virgil to help him |
chiron | | men/women who embezzelled money |