An illustrated book cover of Dante's Inferno. Here we see the poet Dante being led by Virgil through the Sixth Circle of Hell. This circle is reserved for heretics, who are trapped in flaming tombs, all of which are open. Virgil explains that those trapped in the tombs are followers of the old Greek philosopher Epicurus, who was an atheist and believed the soul died with the body. The vastness of the tombs exemplifies the insignificance of each person's suffering.