What Lies at the Bottom of Hell?
Dante and the darkest sin...
Dante’s 9 circles of Hell are filled with every evil imaginable. It covers every sin in the book — from lust and gluttony, to violence and wrath, and everything in between. There’s also a simple logic to Dante’s Hell:
The deeper you go, the darker the crimes.
Therefore, by the time you reach the bottom layers of Hell, you’re rightfully expecting to find the most twisted abominations, and the evilest of sinners, that could ever be conceived of. Yet the bottom of Dante’s Hell often surprises first-time readers. You won’t find fire and brimstone, demons with pitchforks, nor even the typical villains you’d expect. Instead, you find an evil and torment so simplistic, it nearly defies imagination. Today, we’ll discuss the logic, reason, and genius behind the bottom of Dante’s Hell, and the icy horrors behind the crimes of humanity’s greatest sinners.