Dante's Inferno...some of my Memory Theater

So I had some difficulties trying to put up my entire memory theater so instead I will put up my last four (the worst sinners according to Dante) and their picture


This is Judas. Known for his betrayal of Jesus. This has a bit of humor in it...as my girlfriend is a member of the Alpha Omicron Pi sorority...I thought it would be funny to have it be Judas. She is not amused by this allusion.

This is Brutus. It is really a mural in dedication to our house mascot, a black lab. Brutus is the Roman senator who betrays Caesar (what Dante thought of as the second worst betrayal in history, second only to Judas' betrayal of Jesus). Brutus is the first to stab Caesar, but wasn't the last. According to Eutropius, witness to the crime, more than 60 men participated in his death goring open his body more than 23 times. Caesar utters his final words in Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar, "Et tu, Brute?"

The last of the traitors is Cassius, who is also one of the main conspirators against Julius Caesar and brother-in-law to Brutus.

"Cassius was one of the busiest conspirators against Caesar, winning over the chief assassins to the cause of tyrannicide. On the Ides of March, 44 BC, Cassius urged on his fellow assassins and struck Caesar in the face. He and his fellow conspirators referred to themselves as the "Liberators" (Liberatores). Though they succeeded in assassinating Caesar, the celebration was short-lived as Marcus Antonius seized power and turned the public against them" (Wikipedia). It is interesting that it is similar to the warning written over the gate leading into hell that Dante reads, "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."



The last character of my memory theater is Satan, depicted here as a white wall covered in spray paint graffiti. Its lack of order and broad range of color made it easy for my to imagine it as a colorful lake of fire (or in Dante's case ice because they are so far from God), where Satan is contained somewhere inside.

Here is an artistic rendering of the Satan from Dante's inferno

And here is an diagram of Dante's Inferno...