You have come to a place mute of all light, where the wind bellows as the sea does in a tempest. This is the realm where the lustful spend eternity. Here, sinners are blown around endlessly by the unforgiving winds of unquenchable desire as punishment for their transgressions. The infernal hurricane that never rests hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine, whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them. You have betrayed reason at the behest of your appetite for pleasure, and so here you are doomed to remain. Cleopatra and Helen of Troy are two that share in your fate.
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
| Level | Score |
|---|---|
| Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | High |
| Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | High |
| Level 2 (Lustful) | High |
| Level 3 (Gluttonous) | High |
| Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Very Low |
| Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Very Low |
| Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
| Level 7 (Violent) | Low |
| Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Low |
| Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
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Hm. Level 1. And I was so looking forward to the Level-6 bragging rights. :-)
Charon ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the brink of grief's abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow without torment. You encounter a seven-walled castle, and within those walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans, the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar, Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here, and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
Hm. I suppose I'd take the "virtuous pagans" over heaven given the choice.
At 6/10/2007 12:15:00 AM, 
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*sigh* I made it to level 6
Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis
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You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.
Though I'm not sure how Caesar ended up there. You'd think violent oppressors would be sent a little lower.
Caesar wasn't all bad. He was a reformer for the rights of the poor and helped restructure laws to bring people out of debt.
In any case, he actually was pretty well thought of in Dante's time. He managed to get on the list of the "Nine Worthies." Dante saw Caesar as the uniter of Italy. His assassins Brutus and Cassius didn't fare as well: they ended up in zone 4 ("Judecca," named for Judas) of the 9th level.
At 6/10/2007 10:28:00 PM, Mike Clawson
Yeah, I know, I've read the Inferno. And I realize that people back then tended to idolize the old Roman heros.
But as for Caesar, he may have been a champion of the plebs, but he was pretty nasty to the Gauls. He could afford to give hand-outs to the poor of Rome because he had stolen it all from non-Romans.
Ha - I'm in Purgatory - "You have escaped damnation and made it to Purgatory, a place where the dew of repentance washes off the stain of sin and girds the spirit with humility."