Judas Iscariot, was the disciple, and apostle, and the betrayer, of the Son of God. "And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray him to them. ... Since, Judas has become the archetype of the betrayer in Western culture. In Dante's Inferno, he is condemned to the lowest circle of Hell, eternally frozen into ice. Notice that Judas betrays god. ...
For Dante Alighieri, to be a traitor like Judas or Brutus was the worst sin of all. ... For this reason, the inferno is based mostly on social and political traditions of the time that are in conflict with religious beliefs. ... Dante's Inferno above all reflects the thoughts of the author and the social, as well as the political beliefs and structure at the time in Florence, Italy. ... The splitting of the men fits into the pattern of the rest of the punishments in the inferno. ...
Greg Young The Inferno of Dante A.P. English August 26, 2003 In the beginning of The Inferno of Dante, by Robert Pinsky, Dante builds a great deal of tension between the objective of God's justice, and Dante's human sympathy for the souls that he sees around him. ... One mouth contains Judas, the betrayer of Christ, next mouth holds Cassius, and the next with Brutus, for betraying Julias Caesar. ...
