Examples of Pride (Nimrod): Terrace 1, Purgatorio 12   Notorious examples of pride, serving to reign in the sinful disposition of the shades, are carved into the floor of the terrace (12.13-69), similar in appearance to figures sculpted in the stone covers of tombs rising slightly above the ground. Beginning with Lucifer and the giant Briareus, the terrace artwork combines biblical and classical figures, including (from the Bible) Nimrod, Saul, Rehoboam, Sennacherib, and Holofernes; and (from classical sources) other giants, Niobe, Arachne, Eriphyle, and Cyrus of Persia. The entire series concludes with an image of Troy, the ancient city which Dante, echoing Virgil (Aen. 3.2-3), elsewhere calls "proud Ilium" (Inf. 1.75).