Greed
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Greed is an insatiable desire for material gain or social value, such as status or power sometimes at the expense of others in the community.
1909 painting The Worship of Mammon, the New Testament representation and personification of material greed, by Evelyn De Morgan
Shakespeare Sacrificed: Or the Offering to Avarice by James Gillray
The Father and Mother by Boardman Robinson depicting War as the offspring of Greed and Pride
Jacques Callot, Greed, probably after 1621
Inferno (Dante)
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Inferno is the first part of the Italian writer Dante Alighieri's 14th-century narrative poem the Divine Comedy, followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. The Inferno describes the journey of a fictionalis
Greed
…in external riches, without another man lacking them, for temporal goods cannot be possessed by many at the same time." Dante's 14th century epic poem Inferno assigns those committed to the deadly sin of greed to punishment in the fourth of the nine circles of Hell. The inhabitants are misers, hoarders, and…
Canto I from the Inferno, the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868). Here, Dante is lost at the start of Canto I of the Inferno.
Gustave Doré's illustration of Canto III: Arrival of Charon
The Harrowing of Hell, in a 14th-century illuminated manuscript, the Petites Heures de Jean de Berry