... them, not for release, but even of less pain.", as in flying hopeless against the wind. Dante also encountered many other famous people with love stories like Semiramis, Dido, Cleopatra, Helen, Achilles, Paris, and Tristan, who have died in result of their love to their lovers. Dante asks Francesca to tell him her story, as she tells her story he ... ...
... his spouse: she held the land which now the Sultan rules. The other is she who, loving, slew herself and broke faith with the ashes of Sichaeus. Next is lustful Cleopatra. See Helen, for whom so much wicked time was spent, and see the great Achilles who at the end fought with love. Francesca and Paolo are shown reading the tale ... ...
... being punished for there betrayal on earth due to there lustful appetite. Level 2 of hell is home to many people who couldn't control there desires on earth, you can find Cleopatra and Helen of Troy here being punished by the powerful winds that blow them around endlessly. Level 3 is reserved for the gluttonous; the greediest on earth are punished here. The ... ...
