![]() ![]() Therefore, in the first circle, there was no suffering because the people there had lived virtuous lives only that they did not acknowledge the word of God. “The Master I beheld of those who know/ Sit with his philosophic family” (Alighieri 27). Thus, his suffering in the afterlife was discussing philosophies and ethics with other great souls in the afterlife. For instance, Socrates wrote that the afterlife would be a place where one would contact befitting minds and discuss issues with great people from the past. The great wise people were given the afterlife they envisioned while still living. An example of people in this circle included Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato, who lived in a hell that accepted them to dwell in wisdom and not religion. These individuals lived in wisdom and did not have an opportunity to choose between good or evil in terms of Christ. Some of the most prominent people on earth were found in this circle. This shows that this group consisted of people who lived ethical and moral lives but did not have faith in Jesus Christ ever coming on the earth. “That they sinned not and if they merit had/’ Tis not enough because they had not baptism/ Which is the portal of the Faith thou holdest/” ( Alighieri 24). Some of them were those who lived long before the coming of Christ, while the others were those who lived righteous lives but did not accept being baptized. According to Dante, these people did not believe in the coming of Christ. The people in this circle had many sorrows but were not tormented because they had not commited any sins. The environment was filled with lamentations and sighs, which arose to the everlasting air. “True is it, that upon the verge I found me/ Of the abysmal valley dolorous/ That gathers thunder of infinite ululations/” (Alighieri 23). High sounds of ululations expressed the sorrow the people in Limbo experienced. The first circle of hell is called the Limbo it consists of a sorrowful environment where the people are depressed.
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