Brief list of Dante's circles of the Inferno.

1. Circles of Dante’s Hell
Non-Circle -- Vestibule of Hell where the souls of the uncommitted are
tormented by biting insects and damned to chase a blank banner around for
eternity.
River Acheron where souls await passage into Hell proper. The ferryman,
Charon, reluctantly agrees to take the poets across the river to
Circle I - Limbo, where Virgil permanently resides with other great poets,
Homer, Ovid, Horace, and Lucan, and then enter a great citadel where
philosophers reside.
Circle II – Lust -- Minos sits in judgment -- Paolo and Francesca, the two
unfaithful lovers buffeted about in a windy storm.
Circle III -- Gluttons in mud, who are guarded by the monster Cerberus.
Circle IV -- Hoarders and the Wasters, who spend eternity rolling giant
boulders at one another.
Circle V -- Wrathful in the river Styx
Circle VI – Heretics in burning tombs -- City of Dis, realm of the violent
Circle VII – Violent consists of 3 Rings
Minotaur guards the rings of violence
1. Violent against neighbors in blood of Phlegethon
2. Violent against self – suicides as trees
3. Violent against art and nature – gays and blasphemers hot sand
Geryon at the The Great Barrier – flies them down into the pit
Circle VIII – Fraud Simple – Leopard -- consists of 10 Rings – the Malbolgia
1. panderers and seducers – whipped by lashes
2. flatterers – wallowing in shit
3. Simoniacs – upside-down in flaming fonts
4. Sorcerers, fortunetellers, diviners – heads on backwards
5. Barrators graft – boiling pitch with demons guarding
6. Hypocrites (broken bridge) – lead robes and Caiaphas crucified
7. Thieves – turn into serpents and then someone else
8. Deceivers, Evil Counselors, Ulysses -- in flames
9. Sowers of Discord – Mohamet (Mohamed) – sliced in half again and again
10. Falsifiers – diseased, unable to move, covered in scabs
Giants at the Well of Cocytus, the frozen Nimrod Antaeus at the Well to
Cocytus the frozen lake
Circle IX – the lake – consists of 4 Rings -- traitors
1. Caina – traitors to family – frozen to the neck
2. Antenora – traitors to country – frozen to head, one gnaws another
3. Ptolomaea – traitors to guests -- with heads back and ice in eyes
4. Judecca – traitors to their lords – completely buried, Lucifer, Brutus,
Cassius, Judas